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Strengthening Minority-Owned Business
The Quinlan School of Business is strengthening Chicago’s women and minority-owned businesses, starting with a pilot project in the Rogers Park and Edgewater neighborhoods surrounding Loyola’s Lake Shore Campus.
The three-year project will help address inequality by collecting data on equity gaps faced by minority-owned businesses and by developing equitable outreach strategies to:
- Reduce information gaps
- Build capacity in Chicago’s minority-owned business ecosystem
- Strengthen knowledge sharing among minority-serving organizations and businesses
By 2026, the project will support the creation of collaborative systems for connecting businesses in underserved communities with available business development resources, including a dashboard enabling minority-owned businesses and service providers to easily access support services.
Supported by a $625,000 grant from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), the project will pave the way for expanding these practices to all Chicago neighborhoods, with a focus on the south and west sides.
Get involved
- Sign up to receive news and updates about the project.
- Connect with the project team by contacting QuinlanServes@luc.edu.