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A total of 100 grants in Chicago and Cook County and 500 grants overall will be awarded in May 2021. The Investment Fund is the latest extension of Comcast RISE, the multi-year, multi-faceted initiative launched in October 2020 that initially focused on Black-owned small businesses and then extended to BIPOC-owned businesses to help those hardest hit by COVID-19. The Comcast RISE Investment Fund is focused on small businesses that have been in business for three or more years with one to 25 employees. To help drive outreach about the program and provide additional support, training and mentorship, Comcast has also awarded more than $2 million to nearly 20 community-based organizations in the five cities, including the Illinois Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, the South Shore Chamber of Commerce and the Women’s Business Development Center in Illinois, and in other locations and nationally, the Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO), Operation Hope, Ureeka, U.S. Black ....
As part of a $100 million diversity, equity and inclusion initiative that Comcast launched this year, the corporation is now taking applications for the second phase of a marketing and technology resource and makeover program for small businesses owned by people of color. ....