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Spotlight Your Local Business Heroes!

Nominate businesses for the IC100 award here before Friday, May 20!

Once you submit your nomination(s), we recommend that you reach out to your nominees to let them know of their nomination and encourage them to apply by using this email template. If your nominees meet the initial qualifying criteria, they will be invited to complete an extended application to verify previously submitted information and secure their position as a finalist. We will keep you updated on your nominees’ statuses throughout the process.

Want to share the IC100 with your network? Use this one-pager, which provides a quick snapshot of the award program and its impact.

Award Eligibility

To be eligible for an IC100 award, a company must:

• Be an independently-operated company (not a subsidiary or division of another company) that was incorporated by January 2017 and have recorded a full-year of revenue in 2017
• Be a privately-owned, for-profit company that is not a bank or holding company
• Be headquartered in an under-resourced community*
• Have revenues of at least $50,000 in 2017 and have grown to at least $500,000 in 2021 and be the same legal entity throughout those four years.

For questions, contact InnerCity100@icic.org.

IC100 winners are catalysts of opportunity, optimism, and transformation in under-resourced communities. Thus, businesses or owners that are currently under criminal conviction or engaged in or supporting any activity that is illegal under federal, state, or local law are not eligible. Similarly, businesses engaged in activities that are harmful to the local community (e.g. predatory lending) are not eligible.