A program by Fresno Pacific University’s Center for Community Transformation helps people from all walks of life make their ideas soar by helping them create operating businesses.

Small Business LaunchPad provides the tools to turn an idea into a new business or improve an existing business. This seven-week class provides direction, instruction, and coaching to help entrepreneurs, or those who want to become entrepreneurs, set a clear trajectory for their product or service.

CCT has helped over 100 Central California businesses in the last year. Sessions will be on Zoom once a week from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., from Sept. 3 through Oct. 15, with participants also having the option to receive individual coaching.

Registration continues through Aug. 28. Sign up at LaunchPad-Center for Community Transformation (cctfresno.org)

In seven weeks, participants will learn to:

• Better understand themselves and others in business
• Define their unique selling proposition and their product or service
• Reach and expand opportunities for their business
• Clarify their message and focus their marketing efforts
• Create financial systems and understand start-up, breakeven and profitability
• Forge a path to grow their business into the future

See how LaunchPad changed Ben Strickland’s life: cctfresno.org/blog/initiatives/spark-tank/start-up-of-the-year-ben-strickland-with-tink-construction/

The Center for Community Transformation connects the strengths of FPU with the resources of the region to transform cities. CCT supports entrepreneurial creativity, spiritual freedom, economic vitality and justice, environmental integrity, cross-cultural/social collaboration, and political health in the Central Valley.