1. presented by Joan Fitzgerald, Interim Dean Northeastern University: An Anchor Institution Supporting Inner-City Small Business Development

2. School of Law Community Business Clinic ●Provides inner-city entrepreneurs with legal services to navigate complex regulatory requirements and protect their intellectual property assets ●Services include drafting reviewing, and negotiating licenses, permits, leases, loan documents, intellectual property rights and service agreements and others ●Funded by US Department of Commerce Law Professor Rashmi Dyal-Chand

3. Safe and Sound Return Entrepreneurship Training Institute ●A collaboration of Northeastern University’s College of Business and Bouvé College of Health Sciences with the Boston Public Health Commission ●Provides specific job skills, entrepreneurship training, career coaching, and substance-abuse relapse prevention into a ten-week program. ●Seven sessions have served 77 women with an evaluation underway.

4. Boston Inner-City Database ●A collaboration of Northeastern University’s Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy and ICIC ●Creating an inner-city business database to accurately portray the substantial business opportunities that reside in economically distressed urban areas in Boston. ●Goal is to increase the viability and strength of inner-city businesses and then to replicate in other cities.

5. GRADUATE PROGRAMS MS in Urban & Regional Policy Master of Public Administration Online option available. MS in Law & Public Policy Focus areas in Sustainability, Climate Change and Environmental Policy; Health Policy; Crime and Justice and Urban Policy. PhD in Law & Public Policy All courses are offered in the evenings in order to accommodate students who are working full-time during the day. The masters programs have admissions cycles for starting in either the Fall or Spring Semester. School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs: ●Fosters interdisciplinary social science research on critical public policy issues ●Provides professional training for tomorrow’s leaders ●Energizes sustained community involvement through collaborations with local and regional institutions