9:50am | The Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program at Long Beach City College (LBCC) is now accepting applications from local small business owners. The program includes practical business and management curriculum, access to capital, and critical support and consulting services. Those selected to participate in the program receive a full scholarship including tuition and program materials. Small businesses in operation for over two years with four or more employees and annual revenues between $150,000 and $4 million with a desire to grow their businesses are eligible to apply.
Since the program launched at Long Beach City College in June 2010, participating businesses have already experienced growth, allowing them to put more people to work and generate additional revenue to boost
the local economy. “Small business growth is critical to the economic recovery,” said LBCCD President Eloy
Ortiz Oakley. “We are pleased to be able to offer this highly unique program to entrepreneurs in the Los Angeles region.”
Partners include faculty from Babson College, ranked by U.S. News and World Report as the #1 MBA
program in entrepreneurship for 18 straight years, and the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, a nonprofit
research and strategy organization founded in 1994 by Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter who is a leading authority on U.S. inner city economies and the businesses that thrive there.
Call (562) 938-5054 or e-mail [email protected] for more information about the program, or visit their website at www.lbcc.edu/10000smallbusinesses.
Disclosure: The Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program at Long Beach City College is an advertiser.