News & Events

ICIC Events:

•  The 2009 Inner City 100 Awards Dinner was a Great Success! 

The Inner City 100 Awards Dinner was held on May 20, 2009 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center (BCEC). Click here for a list of this year's winners!

See the Inner City 100 Article in  Magazine here!

For more information about the Inner City 100, please contact Dereje Bereta at dbereta@icic.org or 617-297-3142.

To become a sponsor for next years dinner, please contact Bonnie Fitzpatrick at bfitzpatrick@icic.org or 617-297-3114. 

• CEO Conference Call Series

This series features some of the most influenctial practioners who share successful and innovative business strategies for growing your company

Next Call: July 22, 2009, 2:00 - 3:00pm, "Discover Financial Options to Support your Company's Growth" 

 

The monthly ICIC CEO Series features some of the world's most influential practitioners sharing their successful, innovative business strategies.  The series, presented via conference call, is designed with one goal in mind – to help you grow your company.

Register here! 

Upcoming Events in the Field

Did you know that the New York City Comptroller invests and manages billions of dollars in assets, including five New York City Pension Funds?

Did you know that the New York City Comptroller performs budgetary analysis, audits all city agencies, and registers proposed contracts?

Do you have a position about whether minority and women professionals are adequately represented within the firms hired by the Comptroller to manage NYC's assets? 

Join us to meet and engage the leading candidates to be our next Comptroller, and learn about their ideas about investment priorities, portfolio diversification and a host of other topics important to women and minority professionals and our communities.  

Conversation with the Leading Candidates for

NYC Comptroller 

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

6:30pm to 8:30pm 

CUP, in conjunction with Baruch College/CUNY, will host a forum featuring the leading candidates for the Office of NYC Comptroller. The panel discussion will focus on the candidates' visions for the Office as a vehicle to empower communities of color and their plans to create new opportunities for minority and women-owned businesses.  

Space is very limited. $20 fee for non-CUP Members. For more information or to RSVP, please email Ashleigh at agibson@nycup.org.

Baruch College/CUNY
One Bernard Baruch Way
(55 Lexington Avenue at E. 25th Street)
1st Floor, Room 1-107 
New York, New York 10010 

Panelists:  

Honorable Melinda Katz
Council Member - District 29 

Honorable John Liu
Council Member - District 20 

Joe Mendola
Republican Candidate for NYC Comptroller 

Honorable David Weprin
Council Member - District 23 

Honorable David Yassky
Council Member - District 33

 Moderated by: Carl McCall, Former New York State Comptroller

Help Inner City Businesses Access Capital

Inner City Capital Connections (ICCC) is a national program designed to stimulate equity capital flow to underserved inner city markets, by matching inner city businesses with investors. The goal of the program is to educate inner city entrepreneurs about the equity process, and help them grow their companies to size and scale.

Learn more about ICCC.

Press Releases

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