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Education program

Be Your Own Boss Bootcamp

Our Be Your Own Boss Bootcamp is a 4-week course that will support you in taking a deeper look at your personal goals and whether starting a business can help you achieve them.

Education program

Be Your Own Boss Bootcamp

Our Be Your Own Boss Bootcamp is a 4-week course that will support you in taking a deeper look at your personal goals and whether starting a business can help you achieve them.

Education program

Be Your Own Boss Bootcamp

Our Be Your Own Boss Bootcamp is a 4-week course that will support you in taking a deeper look at your personal goals and whether starting a business can help you achieve them.

Own Your Future

We provide holistic and culturally relevant education, advising and community to support diverse entrepreneurs in creating thriving businesses in service to their communities.

Education Programs

Be Your Own Boss Bootcamp

Our Be Your Own Boss Bootcamp is a 4-week course that will support you in taking a deeper look at your personal goals and whether starting a business can help you achieve them.
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Launch Academy

Launch Academy

Our Launch Academy is an 8-month entrepreneurship certificate program that supports creative and social entrepreneurs at the idea stage in starting your business and laying the foundation for your business to thrive.
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Small Business Academy

Our Small Business Academy is a 16-month entrepreneurship certificate program that supports creative and social entrepreneurs in developing plans, improving operations, accessing capital, and strengthening leadership capabilities to build thriving, resilient businesses.
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Advising

Growth Advising

We recognize that receipt of funding is not sufficient to build a business. As small business owners, we need ongoing advice and mentorship to expand our networks, build our operating capacity, implement our business plans, and access additional funding and other resources to grow our businesses.
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Pre-Loan Advising

We recognize that many small business funders turn away entrepreneurs who they do not see as capital ready, leaving you with no funding and no support to meet their requirements.
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Retention Advising

In collaboration with governments and non-profit organizations, we offer customized business advising services to support small businesses and non-profits that are at risk of displacement or closure.
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Our impact

Create a Resilient, Thriving Business

Through your enrollment in our programs, you receive hands-on guidance in starting, planning, growing, funding, leading, and keeping your business in your community. Even after completing a program with us, we provide you with opportunities to extend your experience and plug into our alumni network to help your business thrive.

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Our Community

Be a Part of a Community

As an Uptima entrepreneur, you are part of a nationwide community that includes other entrepreneurs, business mentors and staff, and mission-aligned partners. Through this community, you have ongoing access to our online content, community discussions and special discount offers to events and business resources.

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This course provided us the space to focus on levers that would result in the greatest improvements to our operational capacities during a critical time of growth for our company. I deepened my understanding of cash flow management and refined our projections in ways that improved our allocation of resources, time, and talent to deliver the highest quality services for our clients.
Lena Carew
The Justice Collective
For a year, my business was an idea floating in my mind, and I took baby steps toward making it real. Not having the knowledge of how to go about creating a business left me vulnerable as I placed my confidence in others to “help” me with MY business. After the Launching a Business class, I was further along in my business in 3 months than the entire year I had spent in the dark.
Vicktor Stevenson
Gourmonade
I learned to create a roadmap for my business, pivot when necessary and most importantly identify and act on any barriers or obstacles. I’m happy to report that I’ve been able to follow the roadmap that I’ve laid out in the program!
Bridge Ho
Little Spoon Creamery