Optimized Business Solutions for Women!

UpliftHer

Small Business Resilience for Women Entrepreneurs of Color

Learn how to:

Validate if your value proposition will work in the current and post COVID economy
Identify and speak to your customer’s evolving needs
Make your business more efficient
Renegotiate contracts to create better cash Flow

MOVE FROM SURVIVING TO THRIVING

PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

Two years in business | Minimum pre-COVID gross revenues of $150,000 | Based in Los Angeles County

Application Deadline: May 10th, 2021

Program Starts May 17th, 2021

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Funding for this program has been provided by LISC LA and the Visa Foundation’s Small Business Resilience for Women of Color initiative

UpliftHer is an accelerated five-week series of interactive workshops and executive coaching created by and for women!

Identify your operational style
Evaluate what works for you and what does not
Prepare to apply for loans and grants
Reacquaint yourself with your customers through discovery interviews
Think Like A CFO

Build Your Business

UpliftHer is designed by and for women and addresses the unique challenges we face as entrepreneurs in a 5-week deep-dive that reveals practical and creative solutions, and explores how your business is working for you.

This is an experiential hands-on practical workshop series – not a set of online lectures. Our goal is to create an entrepreneurial experience unique to your needs that helps reset your entrepreneurial mindset while providing practical solutions.

Each week you will be asked to prepare for the workshops to maximize application of the techniques and insights you will learn from the workshops and other entrepreneurs to help meet the demands of the moment and in the future.

You will be getting your hands dirty talking to customers, partners, and other business owners as you encounter the chaos and uncertainty of how our new world actually works. You’ll learn how to turn a great idea into a great pivot, product, or practice.

Masterminds & Mentor Groups

Guided by Dr. Karen Semien-McBride, noted psychologist and inspirational business coach, Mastermind sessions will help us chart a professional path with improved self-awareness and greater clarity to achieve our professional and personal goals.

We will also work through specific issues in smaller mentorship groups, working together to solve problems.

Sessions and Experts

Week 1: Access to Capital

Week 2: Think Like A CFO

Week 3: Know Your Customer

Week 4: HR and Insurance

Week 5: Contracts for Better Cash Flow

Instructors:

Denise McKenzie – National Science Foundation

Dr. Karen McBride – MK Circle Enterprises

Dr. Toya Johnson-Moore – MK Circle Enterprises

Urina Harrell – VoxPop Branding

Vikita Poindexter – Poindexter Consulting

Ju Park – Parsus LLP

Panelists:

Denise McKenzie – NSF/SBIR Specialist

Kathleen Minogue – CrowdFund Better

Latavia Pineda – Small Business Majority

Lindsay Chung – Opportunity Fund

Emma Maxey – SBA

Application Deadline: May 10th, 2021 Program Starts May 17th, 2021