Being Black at School Founder Awarded ADME Status
Kelly Wickham Hurst has been awarded co-hort status for the Advancing the Development of Minority Entrepreneurship in Illinois. In seeking to promote economic growth in Illinois, the ADME awarded 35 applicants entrance into an investment program developed to strengthen start-up and small businesses from underrepresented communities.
ADME has identified high-potential minority entrepreneurs to provide a start-to-finish support team for business growth to bring community organizations, financial institutions, and government to provide participants with access to business training, capital, and other tools necessary for networking.
Kelly will attend the ADME’s Business Experience Boot Camp, a holistic training program with top business educators that provides coursework in foundational principals. Along with this coursework, she and the other participants will be strategically paired with mentors and advisors as well as be given access to capital through the Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) and microlenders to fund opportunities to grow business.
The criteria that ADME used to determine the first round of co-horts is the Gallup Entrepreneurial Profile assessment (EP10) which is a research based talent assessment designed to measure and develop innate entrepreneurial talent.
More information on this program found on the ADME website.
