2nd Annual CIELO Night Market

Join us for the much-anticipated 2nd annual CIELO Night Market and enjoy a unique interactive marketplace and community-building experience, featuring CIELO’s clients, decadent cocktails, and delicious food tastings!

We’re celebrating the power of local neighborhood entrepreneurship and its impact on under-resourced families, their neighborhoods, and our local economy. Together, we’ll immerse ourselves in the transformational and inspiring stories generated by more than a dozen CIELO small business clients.

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Entrepreneurship in Action

We’re open-minded and resourceful, which ensures aspiring entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds and all variety of small business concepts can benefit from our programming. Here are a few examples of ideas we’ve helped transform into thriving ventures:

Small Business
Startup Program

The six-week course, Roadmap for Entrepreneurship Success, covers nine modules including business and marketing planning, financial training, assistance with accessing capital, and more. Private coaching sessions with the instructor also included.

Entrepreneur
Workshop Series

Each month we team up with a different community business leader to teach educational workshops on business-related topics. Open to everyone.

One-on-One
Consulting

Client Navigation provides 1-on-1 help with writing a business plan, getting permits/licenses, starting social media, finding grants/funding to start, and locating sites to sell (like pop-up shops and markets).”

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Ready. Set. Launch.

We are always looking for new entrepreneurs to help launch. We are always ready to provide critical tools and resources to those tired of working multiple jobs yet still unable to get ahead financially. Bring your hopes, hesitations, and big dreams and we’ll help you begin to pave your own empowering path to small-business ownership.

Call us at: (714) 756-2006 or  email us at info@cielocommunity.org.

4,500+

Individuals
Served

400+

Businesses
Launched or
Launch-Ready

Thank You to Our Investors

Please Donate Today

There are nonprofits in the region that support mainstream entrepreneurs aspiring toward hi-tech and high-growth ventures. Only CIELO is focused on serving immigrant, minority, and under-resourced entrepreneurs. But we can’t do it alone. Please consider supporting these enterprising, entrepreneurial-minded individuals. Small in resources, but big on local impact, they are the backbone of economic stability in their families, their neighborhoods, and their communities.

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