Amplify Latinx

Amplify Latinx is a Massachusetts-based nonprofit formed in 2018 by The Latina Circle to serve as a non-partisan, collaborative convener advancing Latino civic engagement, economic opportunity, and leadership representation. Through our Cafecitos event series, convenings and visibility campaigns, we grew our network from 60 women at launch to a diverse network of over 4,500 multiracial, multicultural Latinos serving in elected and appointed positions, boards and commissions, and executive roles across sectors.

Ascendus, formerly Accion East

“Ascendus, formerly Accion East, empowers low- to moderate-income (LMI) business owners with access to capital and financial education. With economic opportunity, these entrepreneurs – often individuals of color and women – can build assets, better provide for their families, create employment opportunities for their neighbors, and strengthen their communities.

We’re here to help you succeed. At Ascendus, we work together with you to advance your business as well as your life. We’re dedicated to helping passionate entrepreneurs build successful businesses that provide for their families and improve their communities.”

Babson College – WIN Lab Global

Created by the Center for Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership (CWEL) at Babson College, the Women Innovating Now (WIN) Growth Lab is a 12-week online experience that provides women entrepreneurs with an inspiring community and a rigorous, experiential process that catalyzes innovative thinking and enables them to successfully scale their businesses.

Boston Local Development Corporation (BLDC)

BLD provides loans to Boston business. The Standard BLDC Loan Fund is available for existing businesses, new ventures, and businesses relocating to the City of Boston. These loans range from $25,000 to $150,000. The Backstreets Boston Loan Program provides financing for Boston companies in the industrial and manufacturing sectors. These loans differ from our standard program in that loan amounts can reach up to $250,000.

Boston UJIMA Project

The Ujima Fund is a democratic investment vehicle raising capital to finance small businesses, real estate and infrastructure projects in Boston’s working-class Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color, as part of the larger Boston Ujima Project.

Caraballo Accounting

Caraballo Accounting is an accounting firm with over ten years of experience offering accounting services, Bookkeeping, Tax Preparations, Payroll, Human Recourses, Advisory & Training in different areas for both the owners and the employee.

Center for Women & Enterprise

The Center for Women & Enterprise is a nationally known nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people start and grow their businesses. CWE has worked with more than 46,000 Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Vermont entrepreneurs since 1995. CWE also operates the Veterans Business Outreach Center of New England (VBOC of NE) that focuses on assisting veterans, active duty service members and their families with starting and growing their business.

Chelsea Business Foundation

The Chelsea Business Foundation Invests in the sustainable and systemic development of the business community and fosters increased access to resources for the prosperity of the Chelsea Latino community and other Chelsea small to mid-sized businesses. Our goal is to create an involved community by providing resources of different opportunities, events, and financial support.

Commonwealth Kitchen

CommonWealth Kitchen is Boston’s only nonprofit food business incubator and food manufacturing social enterprise. CWK provides shared kitchens combined with robust business assistance and accelerator programs to help aspiring entrepreneurs build great food companies, create jobs, improve healthy food access, and strengthen the regional food economy. CWK supports 50+ entrepreneurs including food trucks, caterers, bakers, packaged foods and drink companies. Over 70% of our member businesses are owned by women and/or people of color and immigrants.

Cooperative Fund of New England

The Cooperative Fund of New England (CFNE) is a community development loan fund that facilitates socially responsible investing in cooperatives, community-oriented nonprofits, and worker-owned businesses in New England and adjacent communities in New York.

Dorchester Bay EDC

Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation (DBEDC) is Boston’s only CDC-based Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI). Through its subsidiary Dorchester Bay Neighborhood Loan Fund, DBEDC lends capital to low and moderate income individuals who live in or work in Dorchester, Roxbury, Mattapan, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain and Roslindale. In addition to deploying capital at competitive rates to businesses where its needed most, Dorchester Bay provides technical assistance to new and existing businesses.

E for All Headquarters

Entrepreneurship for All (EforAll|EparaTodos) is accelerating economic and social impact through entrepreneurship in mid-sized cities. At EforAll, they have developed an innovative small business/nonprofit accelerator to foster entrepreneurial growth in the communities they serve.

E for All Lawrence

These two mid-sized cities located on the banks of the Merrimack River are the birthplace of the American industrial revolution’s textile industry beginning in the mid-1800s. Today, they are vibrant and highly diverse communities working hard to support the entrepreneurial spirit of their residents. EforAll is proud to offer its programming in both English and Spanish here.

E for All Lowell

These two mid-sized cities located on the banks of the Merrimack River are the birthplace of the American industrial revolution’s textile industry beginning in the mid-1800s. Today, they are vibrant and highly diverse communities working hard to support the entrepreneurial spirit of their residents. EforAll is proud to offer its programming in both English and Spanish here.

E for All Roxbury

Roxbury is the geographic heart of Boston and is at the intersection of Boston’s culture, history and identity. In the 1940s and 50s African Americans began to migrate from the south, making Roxbury a center of Black culture. Today Roxbury is home to a diverse community which includes African American, Hispanic, and Asian families. With EforAll, all local area residents with a dream to start their own business will receive the tools, support and network they need to be successful.

EmVision Productions

Full-service video production, from concept to completion. With our multidisciplinary, multicultural, multilingual team (we collectively speak English, Spanish, German, Turkish – and the list grows!), we bring a global view to our local work, and encompass diverse experiences and expertise, from social psychology to civil engineering.

Foundation for Business Equity

Foundation for Business Equity was developed to help accelerate the growth of local enterprises of color and to directly impact the increase of job opportunities and wealth creation at the neighborhood level. They are focused on Black and Latinx businesses because that is where the wealth disparity is greatest, and BEI is set to make the biggest impact possible.

Get Konnected

Get Konnected! is a bi-monthly networking event that brings together urban and international professionals, business executives, and entrepreneurs from various cultures in hopes of enriching professional development and forging new business and social relationships.

Harvard Innovation Labs

Harvard iLab is an innovation ecosystem that exists to support Harvard students and alumni in their quest to explore the world of game-changing entrepreneurship. Through a network of highly-curated advisors and mentors, peer collaboration and interaction, and comprehensive resources and programming support, Harvard iLab works to unleash the innovative power of individuals.

Harvard Law School’s Transactional Law Clinics (“TLC”)

Provides individuals and organizations access to critical legal services for business, non-profit, real estate, and entertainment transactions. By filling out an online intake form: clinics.law.harvard.edu/tlc/for-clients/apply-for-services or phoning their intake line at 617-998-0101.

Para ayuda en Español, contacte a la Lic. Carmen E. Halford al 617-496-4038 ó por correo electrónico: chalford@law.harvard.edu

ICIC

Inner City Capital Connections (ICCC) is a national program designed by the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) to help small businesses in economically-distressed areas build capacity for sustainable growth in revenue, profitability, and employment. Designed for busy executives of all expertise levels, our tuition-free program provides capacity-building education, one-on-one coaching, networking and connections to capital providers. Participants are independent organizations, past start-up and survival stage, and based in an economically-distressed area.

Include Web Design

Our team of developers excels at creating websites that meet our clients’ needs and make them stand out to their customers. We pride ourselves on being innovative problem solvers who work with our clients to develop mobile-friendly websites that leave a lasting impression. From simple informational websites that attract customers and donors to more complex e-commerce websites for selling online, we help take your company to the next level.

Innovation Studio

At Innovation Studio, we believe innovation is for Everyone, including you. We activate free live and virtual programs and spaces, creating impactful and inclusive pathways to collaboration. Our mission is to democratize innovation by cultivating relationships and providing resources for anyone to successfully launch and grow a business. We envision a world in which anyone can be an innovator.

Interise

Interise stimulates economic revitalization in lower income communities.

We provide a diverse group of small business owners with entrepreneurial education, new networks, and access to markets. Our community creates jobs, grows businesses, and develops community leaders.

JBS Corp.

Our focus is on improving clients’ financial lives and providing small businesses the proper tools to run an operation with our financial planning specialists’ help. Our mission is to bring knowledge and expertise reserved for high net worth individuals and multi-million-dollar corporations to small, family-owned businesses and individuals and assist all stakeholders through accounting complexities.

JPNDC- Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation

Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation (JPNDC) promotes equity by working to transform the lives and amplify the voices of Boston residents who have been excluded from prosperity by an inequitable economic system. They develop affordable housing that allows people to thrive and asset build, and build upon their strengths in order to pursue the changes they desire.

Lawrence Partnership

The Lawrence Partnership is a private/public sector collaboration for the economic development and general improvement of the City of Lawrence.

Lawyers for Civil Rights

Lawyers for Civil Rights fosters equal opportunity and fights discrimination on behalf of people of color and immigrants through legal action, education, and advocacy. They work in collaboration with law firms and community partners & focus on eight impact areas that represent the front lines in today’s battle for equality and justice.

LEAF

LEAF’s mission is to promote human and economic development by providing financing and development assistance to cooperatives and social purpose ventures that create and save jobs for low-income people.

LISC Boston

LISC tackles the issues that have the greatest impact on community, family, and individual stability — affordable rent, living-wage jobs, good physical and mental health, having a voice in matters that affect their future — all at once, so that progress in one area is not undermined by neglect in another.

Massachusetts Growth Community Capital

The purpose of MGCC is to create and preserve jobs at small businesses, inclusive of those owned by women, minorities, immigrants and veterans. MGCC also works to promote economic development throughout the Commonwealth, with special paid attention to business needs in underserved areas, Gateway Cities and low to moderate income communities.