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Overview: Inclusive entrepreneurship describes the practice of supporting entrepreneurs – from home-based to brick and mortar to scaling – regardless of their identity and background. It centers the unique needs of entrepreneurs from underrepresented or marginalized groups who have historically faced lending discrimination, exploitation by landlords, lack of resources and limitations on the networks they need to thrive.
Supporting a healthy, vibrant, and diverse tenant mix requires additional, targeted strategies for recruiting, cultivating, and retaining local small businesses. Join this session and explore successful methods UPMOs have used to support inclusive entrepreneurship.
Learning Objectives:
- Improving Capital readiness.
- Easing access to commercial spaces.
- Developing programs for business retention and sustainability.
Friday, February 10, 2023 | 12:00pm ET (9:00am PT)
Domain: Economic Development
Pricing: IDA Members: Free | Nonmembers: $40
Advancing Places is an online series aimed at empowering IDA members with the solutions needed to address the most critical urban issues of the day. This session will include a moderated Q&A and will be recorded for member and nonmember use in the future.
Speakers:
- Bobby Boone, Founder & Chief Strategist, &Access (DC)
- Atticus Rominger, Former Chief Strategy Officer, REV Birmingham (AL)
Moderator:
- Carolyn Dellutri, Director of Professional Development, IDA
LPM | 1 IDA LPM professionals can earn credit hours for this webinar. More information about IDA’s Leadership in Place Management certification program can be found here.
CM | 1 AICP members can earn Certification Maintenance (CM) credits for this webinar. More information about AICP’s CM program can be found at www.planning.org/cm.
Speakers
Bobby Boone
Founder and Chief Strategist, &Access
With nearly a decade of experience immersed in retail real estate, Bobby is impassioned about empowering engaged tenants, developers and cities to create community-serving retail. He ensures the viability and sustainability of retail environments with tailored solutions that draw on his market analysis, planning, and strategic merchandising expertise. Prior to founding &Access, Bobby led a citywide effort to attract and maintain small businesses in Detroit and tackled wide-ranging retail challenges as a senior strategist at Streetsense—from repositioning Fortune 500 brands and malls of yesteryear to crafting expansion strategies for emerging brands and commercial corridors
Atticus Rominger
Former Chief Strategy Officer, REV Birmingham
Atticus was a former broadcast news reporter and PR strategist and now helps REV and its partners and clients develop business strategies that move Birmingham forward. He has led and assisted in the development of entrepreneurship programming for REV over the past 15 years. He has also led the planning and execution of several large-scale public space place-making projects, clean and safe program redesign, homeless service delivery, transportation strategies, marketing strategies for businesses and business districts, and fundraising and communication strategies. More Information
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