ICNC + Accion Win Award for Creating The Hatchery
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The development of The Hatchery would not have been possible without our incredible partners, including the
Garfield Park Community Council
and The Hatchery Chicago team.
View the video below to learn about The Hatchery and the CNDA Award.
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COVID-19 Resources + Funding Opportunities
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Our mission to support Chicago's small businesses and the West Side community that we are a part of is and always will be our top priority. We've created a COVID-19 Resources webpage that is updated daily and includes funding opportunities, employment support, food access, small business resources, online training opportunities, how manufacturing businesses can support first responders, and more.
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Accion, our partner in The Hatchery, has created an
emergency capital webpage
with the most up-to-date information on small business grant and loan opportunities. If you have information on any other available resources or funding opportunities, please
let us know
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Make City Mentions + Hatchery Headlines
Supporting Others Through Community + Collaboration
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The entrepreneurial atmosphere in our Make City incubator is always apparent. During the COVID-19 crisis, the community of collaboration and innovation is more evident than ever before. Some of the small businesses working out of Make City and The Hatchery, whose businesses are struggling due to the current environment, have changed operations and thought of innovative ways to support their business, their employees, and their communities.
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Potluck Creative
When Life Hands You Lemons
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Farmer's Fridge
Feeding Healthcare Workers
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Potluck Creative
created a video series entitled
When Life Hands You Lemons
where they follow people who are turning lemons into lemonade, using their resources to help others in the face of COVID-19. The weekly series began by featuring Luckyprints who is supporting restaurants and local small businesses by creating merchandise that is sold through an online shop created by Luckyprints.
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Farmer's Fridge
now serves 30,000 meals to healthcare workers each week in 140 facilities across 6 states.
They also installed “mini-fridges” in hospital break rooms and family bereavement lounges, where food is free for those in need.
The work of Farmer's Fridge to transition to adding more fridges to healthcare and frontline facilities and beginning delivery services has been covered by
Good Morning America
,
American Inno
, and
Fast Company
.
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Rhine Hall
Supporting Frontline Workers with Hand Sanitizer
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Rhine Hall
has continued to create hand sanitizer by overproofing their brandy and using donated beer by neighbors like Goose Island. So far, Rhine Hall has donated over 130 gallons of sanitizer to 30 organizations.
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Tiege Hanley
Donated Hand Sanitizer to CFD
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Tiege Hanley
began creating hand sanitizer and used packaging from their original skincare products. The company was able to donate 36,000 ounces of hand sanitizer to the Chicago Fire Department.
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Sunstarr Apparel
Created Face Masks for Small Business Owners
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Chef's On The Go'Go
Delivered Free Meals to Workers
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Sunstarr Apparel
, a local business that produces Made In Chicago uniforms and work apparel, and Unah Choi, an ICNC Board Member, created more than 800 reusable cloth masks to give out to Make City tenants and Hatchery residents for free. Below is Make City tenant Shannon of Green Diaper Babies wearing the Sunstarr mask while continuing to run her essential cloth diaper service.
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Chef's On The Go'Go
, a Hatchery resident, is a catering, pop-up, and now food delivery service. Polly Coleman, owner of the company, honored her late mother by delivering free meals to frontline mothers who had to work on Mother's Day. The company was recently highlighted by
NBC 5 Chicago
for their support of frontline workers.
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The above spotlights are just a few ways that small businesses in Make City and The Hatchery are working to support their communities. If your business is housed in ICNC's Make City incubator or The Hatchery and you have changed your operations to support others, please
let us know
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Upcoming Virtual Food Workshops with The Hatchery Chicago
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The Hatchery
, a collaboration between
ICNC
and
Accion Chicago
to bring education, capital, and support to the Chicagoland food entrepreneur community, has upcoming food workshops.
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Are you ready to hire staff but lack the time to screen resumes? Our workforce development department can assist you!
Learn more
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- The Workforce Development Team at ICNC works every day to provide quality and streamlined services that connect a skilled and qualified workforce with employment, as well as a variety of labor market services to meet the needs of local businesses. During this difficult time of the COVID-19 health crisis, the team is compiling resources regarding financial resources, food access, and more.
To discuss your HR needs, please contact
Nancy
or
Priscilla
in our Workforce Development Department!
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Grow Your Business @ Make City & The Hatchery
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Make City - 320 N. Damen Ave.
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The Hatchery - 135 N. Kedzie Ave.
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ICNC's Make City incubator offers a thriving entrepreneurial community and immediate access to ICNC's advising, export, and advocacy services alongside 100 other small, modern urban manufacturing businesses. ICNC supports small businesses and the West Side community through incubation, advocacy, and advising.
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The Hatchery is a non-profit food and beverage incubator dedicated to helping local entrepreneurs build and grow successful businesses through cutting-edge kitchen facilities, entrepreneurship curriculum, partnerships with generous corporate sponsors and foundations to create local job opportunities and accelerate local economic growth.
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The Illinois Small Business Development Center International Trade Center is funded in part through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), the Illinois Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity, and the Industrial Council of Nearwest Chicago (ICNC). Reasonable accomodations for persons with disabilities will be made if requested at least two weeks in advance. Please contact the center at (312)433-2373.
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