2015 Inner City 100 Nomination Form

About ICIC

ICIC is the leading authority on U.S. urban economies and the businesses that thrive there. Founded in 1994 by Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter, ICIC supports public and private sector decision makers with analysis and programs that lead to urban investment, jobs, and economic growth.

About the Inner City 100

For sixteen years, ICIC has been recognizing the 100 fastest-growing businesses located in America's inner cities. The list is published annually in FORTUNE and the winners are invited to attend the Inner City 100 Symposium where they gain management education from faculty at the Harvard Business School and a chance to network with fast-growing urban businesses from across the U.S. You can view last year's publication in FORTUNE here and last year's Inner City 100 Symposium agenda here.

Program Benefits

Past Inner City 100 winners cite access to a national network of fast-growing businesses, the prestige of national recognition in one of the country's preeminent business publications, business education from leading CEOs and HBS faculty, and the chance to market the award externally to both customers and prospective employees as major benefits of the program. Winners have also reported meeting major investors and winning multi-million dollar contracts as a direct result of appearing on the list, and select companies each year are profiled in-depth by FORTUNE's award-winning editorial team.

Eligibility for the 2015 Inner City 100

After a company applies, ICIC will assess the following core requirements.

Be an independently operated (not a subsidiary or division of another company), privately owned company that is not a bank or holding company
Be headquartered in an economically distressed urban area in the USA
Have ten or more full-time employees in 2014
Have a five year operating sales history (2010-2014) with sales of at least $100,000 in 2010 and $1 million in 2014

How to Nominate for the 2015 Inner City 100

Thank you for your interest in becoming an ICIC Small Business Partner. We rely each year on our network of national and local partners in cities across the country to let us know about the great work businesses are doing in and around their urban cores.

There are 2 ways to nominate deserving businesses in your city:

Nominate companies using the form or spreadsheet template below and we'll reach out to them to see if they are interested in applying to the 2015 Inner City 100 list.
Promote the Inner City 100 to your network using the Marketing Kit for Nominating Partners. While partners can only directly nominate firms until Monday, March 2, 2015, partners can promote the Inner City 100 to their networks until Monday, March 30, 2015, the final deadline for firms to apply. Any companies that you refer through promotion will count as nominations towards the selection of the 2015 Nominating Partner of the Year.

There are perks to being an ICIC nominator. We look to great organizations like yours to find fast-growing firms in every corner of the U.S. (over 150 cities and counting!). We recognize all nominators as an ICIC Small Business Partner on our website and provide you with a badge to include on yours. If your nominees make the list, your organization will be celebrated at the event and potentially in media across the country. The organization that nominates the most Inner City 100 winning firms will be named our Nominator of the Year.

For more information about the Inner City 100 program, click here or email innercity100@icic.org.

The deadline to submit nominations is Monday, March 9th, 2015.

**Information provided on this application will be used by ICIC and FORTUNE to determine eligibility for the Inner City 100 program and list. Winning companies are selected at the discretion of ICIC.

Typically, partners who would like to nominate more than 10 businesses send ICIC a spreadsheet of businesses with contact information.

If you would like to upload a list of your member businesses, please fill out the 2015 Nominations Template (an excel document) and send it to innercity100@icic.org. If you would like to submit a list of companies without using the template, please make sure that your submission contains the following fields: Company Name, Address Line 1, City, State, Zip, Website, Contact First Name, Contact Last Name, Title, Email, Phone.

Nominator Information *This question is required.

Nominator First Name
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Company 1 *This question is required.

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