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JumpStart Accepting Applications for Entrepreneur Education Program

JumpStart's sixth class of Cleveland Impact entrepreneurs will begin in September.
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JumpStart's sixth class of Cleveland Impact entrepreneurs will begin in September.

Cleveland entrepreneurs have a chance to expand both their knowledge and their businesses this fall.

is seeking applications for its sixth class of the . For 12 weeks, five entrepreneurs will receive one-on-one mentoring from two advisors and compete for a $10,000 cash prize.

is the main business advisor for the program. She says while Core City provides free mentorship to Cleveland business owners, the Impact Program goes a step further in helping businesses grow.

鈥淚n our last cohort, we had business owners that had been in business for years, serial entrepreneurs,鈥 Johnson said. 鈥淗owever, the takeaway that we鈥檝e received from each one of them is that they learned something about their business and learned something that they should be doing in their business that they didn鈥檛 know about.鈥

The application deadline is August 3rd. The program begins Sept. 14th.

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Emma Keating is a junior journalism major with a minor in political science. Between working for the Kent Stater, TV2 and Cleveland Magazine, she has experience in newspaper, magazine, multimedia and broadcast journalism, though writing will always be her one true love. Keating hopes to use her journalism to give a voice to the voiceless in her future career, eventually moving to Washington, D.C.