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Learn MoreWe work with businesses of all ages, industries, and size. Hear from some of our clients about how we’ve helped strengthen their business, whether it’s through business coaching, loans, workshops, or one of our programs.
Entrepreneur SpotlightsWe work with businesses of all ages, industries, and size. Hear from some of our clients about how we’ve helped strengthen their business, whether it’s through business coaching, loans, workshops, or one of our programs.
Entrepreneur SpotlightsIndy Chamber Entrepreneur Services is made up of three teams: the Business Ownership Initiative, the Central Indiana Women’s Business Center, and the Hispanic Business Council. These teams are united under one mission to help local entrepreneurs start and grow their businesses. With shared resources, events and staff, these organizations work collaboratively to meet the needs of every entrepreneur that walks through the door.
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As the umbrella organization for the Entrepreneurship Division, Business Ownership Initiative (BOI) aims to help Central Indiana residents start and grow businesses. To do so, BOI offers free one-on-one business coaching, access to financing, business workshops, and online business courses.
The Central Indiana Women’s Business Center (CIWBC) is a cooperative program in partnership with the U.S. Small Business Administration designed to promote the creation and growth of businesses by women entrepreneurs by empowering them towards successful entrepreneurship and economic self-sufficiency.
The Hispanic Business Council (HBC) works to better assist the Hispanic business community, by offering networking events, bi-lingual business coaching, and mentor-based educational programs such as the Mentor-Protégé Program and Accelerate Latinx.
The ReEntry Entrepreneurship Development Initiative (REDi) addresses the likely connection between entrepreneurship and reducing the rate of re-offending by providing technical business training and education to incarcerated and formerly-incarcerated individuals.
BOI, in partnership with United Way of Central Indiana, joined efforts in 2014 to boost the quality of childcare throughout the Indianapolis region by providing business coaching to administrators participating in the United Way Quality Improvement Project.
Read the StoryLooking to support entrepreneurs in your own backyard? Consider a donation to BOI through the Inspired Fund or the Corporate Giving Circle.
A little goes a long way. The Jacqueline Troy Inspired Fund allows women to support fellow women on their entrepreneur journey. Through the generosity of individual donors, BOI and CIWBC can continue to provide the resources and tools necessary to help entrepreneurs start and grow with the support they need.
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We all started somewhere. BOI’s Corporate Giving Circle provides an opportunity for small businesses to give back and join BOI in supporting the growth of local entrepreneurs. Through the generosity of corporate supporters, we can continue to make an impact through our robust coaching, training, workshops, and loans for entrepreneurs at every stage.
So many amazing organizations contribute their time and resources to make our Entrepreneur Services division what it has become today. Below are a few of those organizations who have supported our efforts.
For Immediate Release: January 11, 2023 Indy Chamber Staffs Up to Support Small Business Indy Chamber’s Entrepreneur Services team adds five, diverse leaders to staff Ind. (January 11, 2023)—Today, the Indy Chamber announced the addition of new leaders within the entrepreneur services department. Stacia Murphy has…
For Immediate Release: January 10, 2023 Indy Chamber Appoints Marcela Montero as Director of Hispanic Business Council Ind. (January 10, 2023)—Announced today, the Indy Chamber has appointed Marcela Montero to director of the Hispanic Business Council. Montero, who joined the Indy Chamber as a sales…
Days before the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown, Suzette Sweatt and her husband, Daniel, were moving their group fitness business, SweattBoxx Wellness Center, into a new, 1,100 square-foot facility. “We’d just moved in on March 10, 2020, and suddenly, Governor [Holcomb] was saying we had to close our doors due to COVID,”…
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