What's New at ICIC
How For-Profit Companies Can Act as Anchor Institutions
Anchor institutions are large or otherwise influential organizations that participate in community engagement activities and have relatively deep roots in (are unlikely to move from) their communities. This report, made possible by funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, explores the motivations and strategies of for-profit corporations’ engagement as anchor institutions with lower-income communities.
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Save the Date for ICIC's Annual Conference
The 2021 ICIC Annual Conference will occur December 7 & 9 and bring together our dynamic network of program participants, alumni, and collaborators to celebrate the resilience of the extraordinary entrepreneurs in our community who continue to battle through the economic uncertainty brought on by the pandemic. Information on agenda, speakers, and sessions coming soon!
Now Accepting Applications and Nominations for the ICCC Program
Inner City Capital Connections is a 40-hour tuition-free leadership training designed to help small businesses in under-resourced communities build capacity for sustained growth and survive COVID-19's economic impact. Nominations and applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. The program provides Spanish interpreting services in select markets.
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The New Face of Under-Resourced Communities
Our comprehensive, two-year research project is a first-of-its-kind study of concentrated poverty in America. The report ranks 450 American cities according to the level of economic disadvantage in their under-resourced communities.
Learn MoreThe Authority on Inner Cities
ICIC drives inclusive economic prosperity in under-resourced communities through innovative research and programs to create jobs, income, and wealth for local residents.
Founded in 1994 by Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter, the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City is a national nonprofit research and advisory organization and the leading authority on U.S. inner city economies and the businesses that thrive there.
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Work with ICIC
Inner cities are rich with opportunity. We help business, government and philanthropic leaders leverage local assets to transform communities. Our research team has helped to shape economic development strategies in more than twenty inner cities.
ICIC delivers the knowledge and the know-how to achieve sustainable economic and job growth.
Support ICIC
Whether supporting one of our high-impact urban business programs or the entire organization, our partners know they are choosing to support an organization dedicated to transforming inner cities across the country. Our partners include Bank of America, Chevron, Kaiser Permanente, various foundations and individual donors.
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What is an Inner City?
Inner cities are distressed urban and suburban areas of concentrated poverty and low income. Inner city residents represent 14% of the population—that’s 45 million people. Of U.S. residents living in poverty, 31 percent live in inner cities.
Events
Leading in Turbulent Times: Strategies for Small Businesses to Survive and Thrive
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected small businesses tremendously over the last year. Led by Harvard Business School Professor Lynda Applegate, the conversation will include a panel discussion with four 2020 Inner City 100 (IC100) award-winning entrepreneurs on business approaches each took to not only survive during the challenges of the past year, but also innovate through the crisis to ultimately thrive. The discussion will be followed by an audience Q&A.
Blog
How Large Companies Can Be Anchors for Lower-Income Communities
By Peter Eberhardt, Senior Research Analyst, Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, and Howard Wial, Senior Vice President and Director of Research, Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, September 2020 You are an executive with a large company that has a facility in or near a lower-income community in a small ... Read More
ICIC drives inclusive economic prosperity in under-resourced communities though innovative research and programs to create jobs, income, and wealth for local residents.
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