The Small Business Growth Program provides personalized growth consulting and analysis projects with small businesses from the South and West Sides of Chicago. These businesses will receive hands-on consulting support aimed at addressing specific business challenges such as restructuring, business resilience, new market entry, and opportunities for growth through marketing and mergers/acquisitions. This work will be organized into a three-month engagement that includes in-depth research and analysis, regular touchpoints between client and team, optional virtual peer support cohorts for the small business owners, and the development of a mid-term and final report for the client. Students are expected to commit 5-10 hours per week. The student application is closed for the 2022 winter cohort. For questions, please contact Isra Omar at iovar@uchicago.edu.