Key Dates

Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses is an initiative to unlock the economic growth and job-creation potential of 10,000 small businesses across the United States through greater access to business education, financial capital, and business support services. The Community College of Philadelphia has partnered with the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses initiative to help small businesses in the Greater Philadelphia region grow and create jobs.

Value to Business Owners

• A scholarship covering tuition and program materials through the support of the Goldman Sachs Foundation.
• A practical 100-hour business entrepreneurship training program that examines business fundamentals through the lens of your actual business experiences.
• Comprehensive one-on-one business advisory services to help you develop and implement a business growth plan.
• Development of a personalized growth plan tailored to your business.
• Access to technical assistance and coaching.

Time Commitment

Your obligation includes out-of-class activities each week. These assignments are an integral part of the program, and are designed to help you improve your business while enabling you to fully develop business growth plans. The additional time commitment outside of class will include:

• Business support services such as technical assistance;
• Customized, one-on-one business advice; and
• Time spent completing assignments in advance of each class.

During and after the program you are expected to fill in your diagnostics in our Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Monitoring and Evaluation system (M&E) at the start of the program, graduation and then six, 18 and 30 months after you finished the program.

Cohort: Setting Scholar Expectations

You will have weekly Zoom meetings with your business advisor.

Optional faculty office hours give you time to receive extra support and ask questions about content, brainsharks, exercises and LivePlan.

Cohort 31 - Fall 2023 Schedule

Class Time Commitment 

Classes will begin on Tuesday, September 12, 2023, with orientation to provide you with support and guidance on how to successfully engage and get the most out of your 10KSB experience. You will have classes every week, and are required to be present at all sessions. If you have scheduling emergencies, immediately email Gabrielle Wanamaker, Education Services Director, gwanamaker@ccp.edu.

For more information, please call 215-516-3700.

Cohort 32 - Spring 2024 Schedule

Class Time Commitment 

Classes will begin on Wednesday, January 17, 2024, with orientation to provide you with support and guidance on how to successfully engage and get the most out of your 10KSB experience. You will have classes every week, and are required to be present at all sessions. If you have scheduling emergencies, immediately email Gabrielle Wanamaker, Education Services Director, gwanamaker@ccp.edu.

For more information, please call 215-516-3700.