United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Educational Fund

Avanzar ("to advance" in spanish) is a six- to eight-month business accelerator program designed to take Hispanic businesses to the next level with curated skills building sessions, resources, tools, and an action plan to position participants for success. Avanzar participants will come away with an updated business plan, how best to access capital for their business, and workshops aimed to strengthen operations, marketing capabilities to support their vison of scaling their business.avanzar was launched in 2019 thanks to the investment and partnership of wells fargo. Since 2019, avanzar has expanded to support Hispanic businesses in additional cities and regions thanks to support from usaa and philip morris international who have joined wells fargo in the mission to advance Hispanic businesses ready to grow their business with avanzar.

In her footsteps is a movement to highlight latina leadership through personal stories of triumph, inspiration, and resilience. This initiative looks to provide the community with helpful information, resources, and strategies to support entrepreneurs and executives through the contributions of latina leaders across all sectors.in her footsteps was initially launched in 2018, thanks to the partnership and community investments of bank of america to develop a podcast to feature latina executives from all sectors to share what it's like to follow in her footsteps. The podcast has since become a digital series launching later this year and will feature 10 latina entrepreneurs on what they have learned running and growing a business including topics such as access to capital and balancing their family and business needs. The ushcc Educational Fund is looking to expand its programming to address opportunities to uplift latinas across all sectors and develop a space to nurture and support their journey.

Elevate together elevate together directly supports black and Hispanic small business owners with the mission of helping local economies, fostering job creation, and helping to close the racial wealth gap. In partnership with the odp corporation and round it up america, the initiative helps support small businesses with five or less employee through technical assistance grants, programs, and mentorship.

The ushcc green builds business program seeks to offer Hispanic businesses to become green suppliers and being part of the solution to transform the supply chain with proven green best practices. Program participants receive business coaching on how to identify, design and implement green projects with an aim to achieve a triple bottom line of results that lower costs, reduce environmental impacts, and support the wellbeing of communities.this program was launched with the support of toyota committed to greening the supply chain at their organization and by investing in Hispanic suppliers interested to learn how to integrate green best practices into their business operations.

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