Rebuilding Lives by Building Businesses
We turn skilled workers into successful business owners through mentorship, training, and startup funding for B2B service businesses. We guide you from application to your first paying customer. You bring the hustle, we bring the resources.
The Problem We're Solving
Most entrepreneurship programs focus on tech startups and ignore blue-collar service businesses. Meanwhile, thousands of skilled workers—people who know how to clean, build, repair, and maintain—face systemic barriers to traditional employment because of their past. They have the skills. They have the work ethic. What they lack is guidance, capital, and someone willing to invest in their future. We're changing that.
Who We Serve
Building Pathways for Those Ready to Rise. This program is for people who refuse to let their past define their future. We work with:
- Foster youth aging out of the system
- Recovering individuals rebuilding after addiction
- Single parents seeking stability and independence
- Formerly incarcerated people reentering the workforce
- Veterans transitioning to civilian life
If you have skills, determination, and a willingness to learn, we want to invest in you.
How It Works
Step 1: Apply
Submit a simple application telling us about your skills, your situation, and the business you want to build. We're looking for commitment and potential, not a perfect resume.
Step 2: 8-Week Mentorship Bootcamp
Learn everything you need to launch: how to price jobs, find customers, create proposals, manage operations, and build systems that scale. You'll develop a complete business plan and submit real quotes to real businesses.
Step 3: Pitch Competition
Present your business to a panel of successful entrepreneurs and community leaders. Show them you're ready. The best-prepared founders win startup funding.
Step 4: Launch Your Business
We help you form your LLC, get insured, purchase equipment, set up your website and phone line, and land your first paying customers.
Step 5: 90-Day Intensive Support
Weekly check-ins, ongoing coaching, and hands-on problem-solving as you build momentum. You're not alone in this.
The Types of B2B Service Businesses We Fund
Landscaping
Pest Control
Car Detailing
Pressure Washing
Pest Control
Junk Removal
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