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Center for Transforming Lives ECONOMIC MOBILITY CENTERS ARE DESIGNED FOR FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS WITH CHILDREN TO HAVE COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED ACCESS TO EDUCATION, COACHING, CAPITAL, AND COMMUNITY TO CREATE LONG-TERM FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE AND STABILITY. Our Riverside Campus Economic Mobility Center is scheduled to open in late Fall!
On-site AMENITIES will include:
  • coworking space
  • meeting room
  • computers
  • 3-D printers
  • commercial and display kitchens
  • entrepreneurial makerspace
  • video and sound studios
  • drop-in childcare
On-site SERVICES will include:
  • small group and one-on-one education
  • financial and career coaching
  • job placement services and small business accelerator
  • incubator programs

Transform Tarrant County From Within

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The top barriers for women building equity include limited access to capital, networks, and mentors. Economic Mobility Centers will launch in 2021 and be strategically placed throughout Tarrant County neighborhoods with concentrated poverty in an effort to address gender and racial disparities for underserved entrepreneurs. 

In partnership with JPMorgan Chase & Co. and NEXT STREET, Center for Transforming Lives released the Transform Tarrant County from Within Report & Action Roadmap — which conducted extensive research on income-restricted areas, entrepreneurs, and disparities in financial resources throughout Tarrant County.

DID YOU KNOW?

25% of Tarrant County working families are financially unstable because of limited income and assets. 

Source: SBA Office of Advocacy, Entrepreneurship in Low-Income Areas, September 2017

Families need roughly six weeks of take-home income in liquid assets to weather a simultaneous income dip and expenditure spike. 65% of families lack a sufficient cash buffer to do so.

Source: JPMorgan Chase, Weathering Volatility 2.0, 2019

Top barriers for women building business equity include limited access to capital, networks, and mentors. 

 Source: Clipped Wings: Closing the Wealth Gap for Millennial Women (Asset Funders Network, 2019) 

The number of women who are part-time entrepreneurs (using a side business to supplement traditional employment) has increased twice as fast as the number of full-time women entrepreneurs.

Source: Woman-Owned Businesses Are Growing 2X Faster On Average Than All Businesses Nationwide (Business Wire, posted September 23, 2019) 

Our Centers

Hours Of Operation | Monday – Friday | 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Arlington Economic Mobility Center

ADDRESS: 401 W Sanford St, Arlington, TX 76011

CONTACT: 817-696-6623
emc@transforminglives.org 

COMING SOON! RIVERSIDE CAMPUS

ADDRESS: 3001 S. Riverside Drive, Fort Worth, 76119

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Center for Transforming Lives works side-by-side with women and their children to disrupt the cycle of poverty throughout Tarrant County. Our services are two-generational and establish long-term financial and emotional well-being. 

Center For Transforming Lives

512 West 4th Street
Fort Worth, Texas 76102

info@transforminglives.org
(817) 332-6191

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