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Northeastern University: Empowering Inner-City Small Business Development

Northeastern University plays a crucial role in supporting inner-city entrepreneurship through various initiatives. The Community Business Clinic, led by Interim Dean Joan Fitzgerald, offers essential legal services for navigating regulatory complexities and protecting intellectual property. Funded by the U.S. Department of Commerce, the initiative addresses the needs of local entrepreneurs. Additionally, the Safe and Sound Return Entrepreneurship Training Institute collaborates with public health entities to provide job skills and recovery support. The Boston Inner-City Database aims to highlight business opportunities in economically distressed areas, enhancing local business viability.

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Northeastern University: Empowering Inner-City Small Business Development

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  1. Northeastern University: An Anchor Institution Supporting Inner-City Small Business Development presented by Joan Fitzgerald, Interim Dean

  2. School of Law Community Business Clinic • Provides inner-city entrepreneurs with legal services to navigate complex regulatory requirements and protect their intellectual property assets • Services include drafting reviewing, and negotiating licenses, permits, leases, loan documents, intellectual property rights and service agreements and others • Funded by US Department of Commerce • Law Professor RashmiDyal-Chand

  3. Safe and Sound Return Entrepreneurship Training Institute • A collaboration of Northeastern University’s College of Business and Bouvé College of Health Sciences with the Boston Public Health Commission • Provides specific job skills, entrepreneurship training, career coaching, and substance-abuse relapse prevention into a ten-week program. • Seven sessions have served 77 women with an evaluation underway.

  4. Boston Inner-City Database • A collaboration of Northeastern University’s Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy and ICIC • Creating an inner-city business database to accurately portray the substantial business opportunities that reside in economically distressed urban areas in Boston. • Goal is to increase the viability and strength of inner-city businesses and then to replicate in other cities.

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