It was one month ago when ICIC responded to the disturbing rise in racist rhetoric, harassment, and violence Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) have experienced since the start of the pandemic with our commitment to proudly support and serve as an ally, resource, advocate, and partner to the AAPI ... Read More

Norwood J. Clark, Jr., an alum of ICIC’s 10,000 Small Businesses (10KSB) and ICCC initiatives, was recently featured on Fox11’s Good Day LA and recognized by the Los Angeles Chargers for his philanthropic efforts and contributions to Carson, CA where he lives and operates his small business. Norwood is serving so ... Read More

The bias, bigotry, and racism that continue to afflict our society, and that have surged during the pandemic, have had a devastating impact on the Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community including its small business owners. Stop AAPI Hate, a national coalition formed at the beginning of the pandemic as a ... Read More

2020 was an extremely difficult year for our small business community, however, the holidays present an opportunity for us to support those entrepreneurs who displayed tremendous amounts of strength and resilience as they survived the COVID-19 pandemic. This year, 1,220 small businesses from 16 cohorts across the country participated in ... Read More

By Howard Wial, Senior Vice President and Director of Research, Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, November 2020 The development of under-resourced communities and communities of color is a moral and economic imperative.  It is a moral imperative because systemic racism and concentrated poverty impede the ability of community members to ... Read More