Access Granted, Inc.

10/26/2026

Partner Spotlight: Welcome, Miles College Women's Business Center! 🎉

We're proud to welcome the Miles College Women's Business Center (MCWBC) as an ecosystem partner of the Ready to Fund Alabama Project. Housed at Miles College in Fairfield, AL and funded in part by the U.S. Small Business Administration, the MCWBC equips entrepreneurs with the training, counseling, and connections they need to start and grow. Now, its nominees are getting a clear, data-driven look at their path to capital with their Bankability Score™. 💼

Special thanks to the MCWBC Project Coordinator Alexis Kimbrough for championing our Unit 1 nominees! 🙌🏾

About the Ready to Fund Alabama Project

The Ready to Fund Alabama Project, powered by Bankably.app, helps Alabama small business owners get ready for capital before they apply. Through ecosystem partners across the state, business owners receive their Bankability Score™, a roadmap to close the gaps lenders look for, monthly financial readiness sessions, and a path to lending partners, at no cost to them. The Project is led by Access Granted, Inc., a proud Innovate Alabama Network member, and supported by an Innovate Alabama Network Grant.

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10/24/2026

Welcome to the Ready to Fund Alabama Project, Birmingham Business Resource Center! 💛

The Ready to Fund Alabama Project is delivered through trusted community partners, and we're proud to announce another ecosystem partner - BBRC.

The Birmingham Business Resource Center is a one-stop shop supporting entrepreneurs at every stage of business development. Through one-on-one business counseling, workshops, and funding options with favorable terms, BBRC helps business owners increase capacity, gain customers, and access capital.

Thank you, BBRC, Bob Dickerson for nominating Unit 1 CEOs and trusting us to help them build their Bankability Score™ with Bankably™.

About the Ready to Fund Alabama Project

The Ready to Fund Alabama Project, powered by Bankably.app, is an initiative of Access Granted, Inc.., supported by an Innovate Alabama Network Grant. The project helps Alabama small business owners get ready for capital before they apply. Each CEO receives their Bankability Score™, a clear roadmap to strengthen it, and monthly readiness webinars, at no cost. We don't help founders apply faster; we help them apply prepared.

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10/22/2026

Partner Spotlight: Create Birmingham 💛

The Ready to Fund Alabama Project is delivered through trusted community partners, and we're proud to have Create Birmingham Create Birmingham as one of our very first.

Create Birmingham invests in economic development across the nonprofit and commercial creative sectors, including performing arts, visual arts and crafts, culture and heritage, media and film, design, and culinary arts. As the only agency in the region exclusively devoted to the creative industries, they work with individuals, businesses, and organizations to identify opportunities, overcome barriers, and strengthen communities.

Thank you, Create Birmingham, for nominating Unit 1 CEOs and trusting us to help them build their Bankability Score™ with Bankably™.

Creatives in Unit 1, we see you. Keep that loading bar moving! ⏳

About the Ready to Fund Alabama Project

The Ready to Fund Alabama Project, powered by .app, is an initiative of Access Granted, Inc., supported by an Innovate Alabama Innovate Alabama Network Grant. The project helps Alabama small business owners get ready for capital before they apply. Each CEO receives their Bankability Score™, a clear roadmap to strengthen it, and monthly readiness webinars, at no cost. We don't help founders apply faster; we help them apply prepared.

10/06/2026

Tomorrow, it starts. 🚀

The Ready to Fund Alabama Project (Powered by Bankably.app) kicks off at TruFund Financial Services, Inc. TruImpact Week 2026 with Access to Capital & Tax Planning, a conversation with industry experts on how to finance, stabilize, and grow your business.

Our Unit 1 CEOs will be in the room: the first 50 Alabama business owners who decided they weren't going to keep getting pointed toward capital. They're getting ready for it‼️

Each of them receives free access to Bankably™, their own Bankability Score™, and an honest roadmap to close the gap between where their business is today and where lenders need it to be.

And we're not stopping at 50. Unit 2 is forming now. If you're an Alabama business owner who wants to know exactly where you stand with lenders, come tomorrow and raise your hand.

Because we don't help founders apply faster.
We help them apply prepared.

To my Unit 1 CEOs: I'll see you tomorrow. Let's get to work‼️🙌🏽

📅 Tuesday, October 6 | 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM

📍 Titusville Development Corporation, 400 Iota Ave S, Birmingham, AL 35205

🔗 RSVP: https://form.jotform.com/262634630379159

Thank you to TruFund Financial Services Carter Evans, PsyD, PhD, MBA, LPCT ShaRhonda Hill, Veronica L Reyes and the sponsors and partners making this possible, including

Access Granted, Inc.
Titusville Development Corporation
Innovate Alabama
Create Birmingham Viola Ratcliffe Hunter Hutcherson
Birmingham Business Resource Center Bob Dickerson Tamika McNeal
Miles College Women's Business Center Alexis Kimbrough Jarralynne Agee

09/09/2026

It's time.... We're kicking off the Ready to Fund Alabama Project. 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 As a new Innovate Alabama Network Innovate Alabama partner, Access Granted is bringing , , and to financial-readiness support for small business owners across Alabama.

Powered by Bankably™ Bankably™ App , delivered through trusted community partners. Six trusted partners. One mission. Business owners, get ready.

With Bankably™, our philosophy is simple: we don't help founders apply faster — we help them apply prepared.

Our partners have sent out their personal invites to nominate business owners to participate in this program.

Have you checked your inbox? Don’t miss this uniquely game-changing opportunity for your business.

Know an organization that should be part of this work? We’d love to hear from you!

In the meantime, more to come soon. 🔥🔥🔥

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08/06/2026

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07/11/2026

Saturdays are perfect for podcasts. Got a few minutes this morning? Give this a listen.

I was invited to be the very first guest on Gloria Ware 's new show, Capital Remix Podcast — and honestly, still humbled by that.

Gloria is renowned in all things capital access so you know Gloria + Me = 🔥🔥🔥 It's an episode you can't miss.

Access to capital isn't just about getting approved. 💡

It's about trust. Strategy. Education.

Knowing what to do with the money once you have it.

Capital without strategy = more problems.

Capital + knowledge = growth.

A few clips are up already — go watch the full convo 💪🏽

Capital Remix Podcast on YouTube

https://youtube.com/?si=F6d1QnndCmN5FIPt

ALSO - I know I'm always giving yal homework but this takes seconds - follow her Get The Bag LLC:

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06/26/2026

Please join us in welcoming our two new Data Scholars, Shayna Haynes and Dianna-Grace Nelson, to the Bankably.app team! 🎉👏🏽🙌🏽

Shayna is a rising senior at John Carroll Catholic High School John Carroll Catholic High, and Dianna-Grace is at Troy University Troy University (Class of 2027) — and now in Week 3 of their Bankably Alabama Data Scholars internships, these two have already jumped into real work: data evaluations, analytics, and dashboard implementation across our Bankably™ platform. This week, they're joining us at Sloss Tech — soaking up Birmingham's best in tech and innovation.

And the timing is fitting. As a Certified B Corp, TMB Tax & Financial Services Benefit Corporation is on a mission to democratize small business financial literacy and access to capital — and Bankably™ is how we put that within reach for founders the system too often overlooks.

So Shayna and Dianna-Grace aren't just building dashboards. They're sharpening the tools that help everyday business owners get funded. And it's not all behind the screen — this week they're meeting the very business owners Bankably™ is built to serve. 💪🏽

Major thanks to QuantHub, Innovate Alabama, and all the sponsors of the Alabama Data Scholars Program.

We're excited to take part for another year in such an outstanding talent and workforce development pipeline.

Welcome to the team — we're glad you're building it with us. 🛠️🙌🏽

05/07/2026

🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 It's official! To now step into the role of Director is not something I take lightly. It's an honor, a responsibility, and a full-circle moment.

I came in as an Instructor believing in what this center could be — and now I get to help build what it becomes. As a business owner myself, rooted in a family legacy of entrepreneurship, I know firsthand what access to the right support can mean.

I am deeply committed to leading the next phase of business development and financial empowerment — equipping entrepreneurs with the strategies, resources, and capital access they need to build businesses that last.

Let's goooooo.

Miles College is pleased to announce Talibah M. Bayles as the next Director of the Miles College Women’s Business Center.

Bayles brings more than 18 years of experience in strategic management, entrepreneurship support, small-business capital readiness, and financial advisory services. Since the Center’s inception in 2022, she has contributed to its work as an instructor and leader, helping entrepreneurs strengthen their financial systems, prepare for funding, and build sustainable businesses.

In this new role, Bayles will lead the Center’s continued work as a regional hub for entrepreneurship, expanding training opportunities, deepening community partnerships, and supporting business owners throughout Birmingham and the surrounding region.

Please join us in congratulating Talibah M. Bayles as she steps into this leadership role.

Learn more about the Miles College Women’s Business Center at www.milescollegewbc.org

Full Article: https://tinyurl.com/MCWBCNewDirector

04/22/2026

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