Opportunities for Small Businesses & Entrepreneurs
Open Kitchen Workshops
The Open Kitchen series is aimed to provide valuable information to entrepreneurs and small businesses in the food industry. This ongoing program brings together experts from different industries to provide insight into topics such as financing, mobile food businesses, permitting and more.
Stay tuned to our events page for more Open Kitchen events.
Learn more about Food Service Operation requirements through the City of Cincinnati Health Department.
Cash Reigns Supreme Financial Seminar
Cash Reigns Supreme is a financial seminar designed exclusively for small business owners interested in growth and success. The seminar helps entrepreneurs understand, organize, and use their financial information to make important business decisions.
Stay tuned to our events page for the next Cash Reigns Supreme seminar.
Downtown Vending Program
The City of Cincinnati’s Downtown Vending Program (DVP) enables merchandise vendors to sell from the public right-of-way in the downtown area. This program was created to encourage and support local entrepreneurs to be a part of the thriving Downtown Cincinnati business community. The Downtown Vending Lottery is held annually on the third Thursday of March at 9:30 AM at Two Centennial Plaza, 805 Central Avenue.
Apply for food vending licenses through the City of Cincinnati Health Department.
Women, Minority & Small Business Enterprises
In conjunction with the City of Cincinnati Department of Economic Inclusion, we work to identify opportunities for minority business enterprises (MBE), small business enterprises (SBE), and women business enterprises to do business with the City. The Department of Economic Inclusion has created a certification process to ensure that these enterprise groups can participate in as many projects as possible; not just as subcontractors, but as prime contractors.
Apply here.
