You Can Help Nashville Neighbors Start Small Businesses Today!
We are on a mission to empower underestimated entrepreneurs to start their own businesses and create a Nashville where ALL neighbors flourish. Join us!
Corner to Corner
As a community-led nonprofit, we are working to create a Nashville where all neighbors flourish on their own terms. Corner to Corner connects entrepreneurs with the knowledge, tools, and networks they need to turn their business dreams into money-making realities.
Did you know Nashville is in bottom 5% for economic mobility*(opens in new tab) in the nation. That means, if you're born poor, you'll stay poor without significant and sustained interventions and programs.
Programs like The Academy.
The Academy
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The Academy is a two-phase program:
In phase one, our 10-week program equips community members with the skills they need to plan, start, and grow their own small businesses. The Academy helps neighbors create sustainable economic engines for their families and community. Since its inception, The Academy has graduated over thousands of entrepreneurs, each in various stages of small business ownership.
Our second phase, The Academy Alumni Program, goes further than helping entrepreneurs launch their businesses; it helps them flourish as business owners. Through this program, graduates of The Academy have access to additional educational resources, such as public speaking classes, a virtual legal library, Shopify courses, one-on-one business mentorship opportunities, and The Academy Invested, our 0% interest rate loan program designed exclusively for Academy Alumni.
Because we know ownership ends poverty.
