The Northwest Ohio Impact program offers one-on-one assistance for anyone who owns a business in the greater Toledo area.
JumpStart offers free advising services to entrepreneurs and small businesses owners who live in or own a business in the greater Toledo area.
In these free sessions, JumpStart advisors will help you identify key tasks for your business, develop a plan for achieving them and access the people and resources you need to grow.
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Are you interested in taking your business to the next level? If so, our Northwest Ohio Impact Program can provide you with the tools to do so.
Twice a year, a cohort of five high-potential businesses join the Northwest Ohio Impact Program, an intensive 12-week business assistance program designed to provide focused business advising, industry-specific mentoring and collaborative learning. Over the course of these 12 weeks, the cohort will work intensively on various key business issues, with significant emphasis on financial projections and capital pitches.
The Impact Program then culminates in a demo day-style competition where the entire cohort will pitch to a panel of judges for a chance to take home up to $10,000 to grow their businesses (all other cohort participants receive $2,500).
Check back soon! Applications for the Fall 2021 Cohort will open later this year.
The Northwest Ohio Impact Program is headquartered in the Downtown Toledo offices of JumpStart at 709 Madison Ave. in the Bell Building.
We offer parking validation for the lot directly to the Northwest of the building at the corner of Madison and N. Ontario (please be sure to bring your parking ticket into the office).