Corner to Corner builds flourishing communities by helping historically underestimated entrepreneurs launch and grow businesses.
Impact By The Numbers
The Academy
The Academy is our 10-week program that equips community members with the skills they need to plan, start, and grow their own small businesses to create a sustainable economic engine for their families and community. Since its inception, The Academy has graduated over 1,400 entrepreneurs, each in various stages of small business ownership.
Our second phase, The Academy Alumni Program, goes further than helping entrepreneurs launch their businesses; it helps them flourish as business owners. Through this program, graduates of The Academy have access to additional educational resources (like public speaking or Shopify classes), one-on-one business mentorship opportunities, and The Academy Invested, our 0% interest rate loan program designed exclusively for Academy Alumni.
In 2024 alone, our entrepreneurs were responsible for generating $37.2 million to put back into the neighborhood economy here in Nashville, according to SBA data.
In 2024 alone, Corner to Corner entrepreneurs put over $37.2 M back into the local economy (according to SBA data)
Entrepreneurs have graduated from The Academy since Fall 2016
new entrepreneurs graduated in 2024 alone
instructional hours for The Academy
We transform the joy of creation into economic flourishing by engaging entrepreneurs at the earliest stage – some even before they have an idea!
Impact Stories
Featured Story:
Tara Holt – Elevate Now
If you know one thing about Corner to Corner, know that our team believes in the work we are doing so much, that the vast majority of our staff are Academy graduates themselves! Including Tara Holt, our Operations Director and the owner and founder of Elevate Now, a consulting firm that helps people elevate professionally and…
Tara Holt – Elevate Now
Johnathon Davis – Black Men Vent Too
Jaffee Judah, Recycle Reinvest
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Love your neighbor as yourself through joyful action.