From Idea to Impact – Welcome to Launchpad
LaunchPad empowers entrepreneurs to clarify their vision, refine their business model, and gain the skills to confidently grow their business.
Clarify, Build, and scale your business.
Whether you’re starting a new venture or growing an existing business, it’s common to feel unclear on the next steps. LaunchPad, a 7-week online course by the Center for Community Transformation, provides structured guidance to help you clarify your goals, refine your financial model, and master the skills needed to thrive. Our Tuesday evening sessions, accessible from the comfort of home, cover everything from product strategy to marketing, setting you up for success.
Grow Your Business with Launcpad
Step 1: Register
Sign up for LaunchPad and reserve your spot in the upcoming cohort.
Step 2: Learn
Join us on Tuesday evenings online to complete 7 modules over 7 weeks.
Step 3: Apply
Implement the strategies you’ve learned to clarify and grow your business.
Here’s what you’ll get in 7 weeks:
- Understand yourself and others in business
- Discover your unique selling proposition and further define your product or service
- Reach and expand opportunities for your product or service
- Clarify your message and focus your marketing efforts
- Create financial systems and understand start-up, breakeven, and how to become profitable
- Create a path to continue growing your business for years into the future
Dates:
COHORT 15:
April 22, 2025 – June 3, 2025
TIMES:
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm.
Weekly Trainings Online via Zoom.
Cost: $150
Launchpad Spotlight
Tink Construction, 2024 Launchpad Participant
Ben Strickland is the founder of Tink Construction, a construction company based in Fresno, California. Ben Strickland’s journey from homelessness to entrepreneurship is a testament of his resilience and teachable heart.
Through Launchpad, Ben learned how to develop messaging to target his ideal customers, start a website, send invoices online, and create financial systems for long-term profitability and growth. Now, Ben has a website, helpful online invoicing tools, and is currently working on obtaining more construction certifications to expand Tink Construction’s services. On June 13, 2024, Tink Construction was named CCT’s Start-Up of the Year. This award recognized his exceptional commitment, outstanding growth, and significant contribution to the entrepreneurial community.
“Everybody has fear. But you’ve got to take that first step,” says Ben. “If you want to be an entrepreneur, you need to keep taking steps forward. Fear is a wall and you’ve got to walk right through it.”
