LevTech Applications Now Open

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Congratulations to the Spring 2025 LevTech Accelerator cohort, who recently completed sixteen weeks of mentorship, training, and research to implement technology to scale their business. Applications for the Fall 2025 Cohort are now open.

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Moving Cities Forward

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Sign up for our Moving Cities forward Newsletter to hear the latest news and updates about the work we’re doing in communities across the country.

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Our Mission

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To catalyze wealth building opportunities for Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous entrepreneurs by transforming the way local communities see, support, and sustain them.

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Collaborators in Equitable Ecosystem Building

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Forward Cities is fortunate to have a growing number of funding and ecosystem building partners to help us deepen and expand our work.

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Impact Stories

Storytelling is in our DNA. We celebrate the champions and change-makers dedicated to growing and sustaining more equitable entrepreneurial ecosystems in their communities and beyond.

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Featured Program

The Equity for Every Entrepreneur (E3) Durham program employs a community-centered model that reduces the cost of doing business for Durham entrepreneurs. Local Navigators — trusted advisors who have extensive relationships in the community — provide guidance to enrolled entrepreneurs at no-cost.

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Community Impact

Strengthening a local equitable entrepreneurial ecosystem requires intention, stakeholder alignment, local leadership, timely data, trust-building, authentic community engagement, and an actionable plan that can be invested in and sustained over time. We work with cities to help implement their plans, track their data, amplify emerging stories, and identify public and private resources to sustain this work over time.

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Support the vision

Our work is generously supported by local and national foundations as well as corporations and individuals who share our commitment to fostering more equitable entrepreneurial communities across the country. If you are interested in supporting us directly please click here.  If you’d like to talk further about how you or your organization can best support Forward Cities’ mission please contact us.  Thank you!

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