Business Development

The South Side Innovation Center offers the following services to its clients/tenants:

Entrepreneurial awareness to spotlight skills and needs for prospective and existing entrepreneurs
Financial literacy to improve knowledge and skill
Roundtables for intensive discussions on hot topics
Business plan development
Technical assistance in the many aspects of business
SSIC Academy: 180 hours of business courses and training
Test Kitchen for commercializing food products and helping foodpreneurs
Help in entity creation
Support in MWBE and Disadvantaged Business Certification
Community Business Partners program
Micro-credit loan program
Procurement & market access assistance