Collective Change Institute

Small business report | April 23, 2020

The US Senate passed a near $500bn coronavirus aid package on Tuesday for small businesses, including additional help for hospitals and virus testing. “I welcome this bipartisan agreement,” Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday as the bill was passed. What can US small businesses do during the pandemic – and why is it so confusing? The aid package is the second for small businesses, which have been hit hard by the pandemic and shed millions of...

Small Business Advice

Visa | December 17, 2020

Supporting small and micro businesses (SMBs) has been an earnest need all through the COVID-19 pandemic, with an extraordinary need among minority-claimed small businesses, which are lopsidedly affected. Expanding on Visa's drawn out obligation to this network, Visa Foundation today declared new activities to give almost $5 million in funding to minority-drove SMBs, in the midst of a second influx of COVID-19. Visa likewise reported mentorship projects to additional help minority-drove SMBs....

Business Strategy

SetSchedule | December 18, 2021

SetSchedule, a technology company that has had great success in the real estate business development space, is releasing an update to its app. This update will add onto the app’s current features, and is set to be a place where entrepreneurs and solopreneurs can network, market their business, and collaborate on projects with other professionals from any industry. “I’m extremely excited to challenge and disrupt an industry of social networks t...

UC Today | April 21, 2020

Employees and team members working from home? You’re not alone. Even without pandemics like the coronavirus to think about, remote working trends are on the rise. Today’s small businesses have dozens of ways to benefit from a distributed lifestyle. After all, when your team members aren’t coming into the office, you have less money to spend on overheads, access to greater productivity, and all of the scalability of the cloud. Still, creating a remote working strategy does come ...