Women’s Business Development Center

ScaleUp, an intensive 9-week cohort-based curriculum program, is designed to assist local established businesses, at least 2+ years in operation, that are stagnant but poised for growth. Through the delivery of comprehensive and extensive business development services including one-on-one advising, ScaleUp equips small business clients with the business and financial acumen, resources, and tools to ‘break the cycle’, build capacity and create jobs. To ensure the program meets shifting community needs, services are delivered in collaboration with, and on the premises of, established community and corporate partner organizations in low-to-moderate income communities in Greater Chicago and delivered in the language native to the community served.