Community Navigator Pilot Program

The Community Navigator Pilot Program is an American Rescue Plan initiative designed to reduce barriers that underrepresented and under-served entrepreneurs often face in accessing the programs they need to recover, grow, or start their businesses. Using a hub a spoke model the program will collaborate with local partners to increase services to targeted communities.

Intentional Outreach Network

The Intentional Outreach Network (ION) is West-Central Indiana’s version of this program, developed to strengthen outreach and advising services to underserved businesses in our community. Using a hub and spoke model, this program utilizes already established organizations in our community to bolster their support efforts and connect to businesses in the following communities:

– Rural Owned

– Black Owned

– LGBTQIAP+ Owned

– Veteran Owned

– COVID-19 Impacted businesses

The program serves the following counties: Clay, Owen, Parke, Putnam, Sullivan, Vermillion, and Vigo. The spokes will serve as our engagement and outreach liaisons for the targeted communities, which will be represented through the following agencies in the graphic below.