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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.

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 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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10/05/2026

Tomorrow, it starts. 🚀

The Ready to Fund Alabama Project (Powered by Bankably™ App ) kicks off at TruFund Financial Services's TruFund Financial Services 1TruImpact 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 Kim Carter Evans, Psy.D., Ph.D., MBA, LPCT, ShaRhonda Hill, Veronica L Reyes and the sponsors and partners making this possible, including

Access Granted, Inc.
Titusville Development Corporation

Viola Ratcliffe Hunter Hutcherson
Birmingham Business Resource Center Bob Dickerson Tamika McNeal
Miles College Women’s Business Center Miles College Alexis Kimbrough Jarralynne Agee

10/02/2026

TODAY---Meet me at Miles College! As Director of the Miles College Women's Business Center, I’m moderating Turning Content into Currency at 10:30 AM. 🔥🔥🔥

Join me, Lent Lawson, Shanté Bacon and Dr. Wendy Stewart.

President Bobbie Knight will welcome Master P on campus at 1:30 PM.

Come meet Lent Lawson, Yandy Smith-Harris and others!

📍 Turning Content into Currency · Student Activity Center, 2nd Floor

🗓 Friday, October 2 · Miles College, Fairfield, AL

Free and open to the public.

RSVP: milescollegewbc.org

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09/09/2026

Let's gooo 🙌🏽🙌🏽👏🏽👏🏽🔥🔥

08/29/2026

It's official 🔥🔥🔥 I'm excited to be heading to Denver this September to speak at the 2026 Association of Women's Business Centers (AWBC) Leadership Conference.

I'll be leading a session titled Finding True North: Using to Strengthen Programs and Increase , where we'll explore how to use data to better understand the entrepreneurs we serve, strengthen program strategy, and demonstrate the impact of your WBC's work.

There are 168 WBCs serving every state, D.C., Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands helping millions of individuals start, grow, and sustain their businesses. U.S. Small Business Administration

As Director of the Miles College Women's Business Center, I get to see that legacy in action every day! I'm looking forward to joining Women's Business Center leaders, small business advocates, entrepreneurs, and others from across the country for three days of learning, conversation, and connection.

There's still time to join us! I hope to see you in Denver.

Let's go yal‼️ 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🥂🥂🥂

Register at awbc.org/2026conference

08/21/2026

I recently had the chance to meet with Charlotte D. Whatley, the new Local Taxpayer Advocate here in Birmingham, along with members of the local Taxpayer Advocate Service (TAS) office, and representatives from several of our State Congressional offices.  

We spent the morning digging into how the TAS works hand-in-hand with Congressional offices to resolve taxpayer issues — from how cases get assigned, to response quality standards, to the escalation process when a taxpayer really needs help.

As one of the Alabama Members of the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel (TAP) moments like these matter to me. TAP is a Federal Advisory Committee to the made up of volunteers who help identify tax issues that matter to everyday taxpayers and bring that perspective directly to the agency. Sitting in that room with the people who move casework and constituent concerns forward reminded me exactly why this service matters.

Through my seat on TAP's Notices & Correspondence Committee, I'm working to represent you on:

✅️ Making IRS notices clearer and easier to understand.

✅️ Making sure your voice — the taxpayer's voice — actually reaches the IRS.

✅️ Supporting the Taxpayer Bill of Rights in how the IRS communicates with you.

Have you received a confusing IRS notice? I want to hear about it — your story helps shape the recommendations I bring to the table. 

👉🏽 Share at improveirs.org.

Honored to serve!

08/13/2026

They're in!!! 🌟 Back to school timeline...our turn 🙌🏽 Praying for a fruitful, wholesome, and safe school year. Let's go girls 🙌🏽🙌🏽💪🏽‼️. Love youuuu ❤️💋

07/19/2026

These two here...❤️ Let's celebrate my rock star daughters who keep me on my toes and keep me sooo proud 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽. That's it. That's the post. Queue applause 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🎊🎊👑👑👑🥂

07/08/2026

Tomorrow! There's still time to register for our kickoff event. We'll be at the U.S. Small Business Administration Alabama District Office at 11a.

Register here - https://mcwbc.ecenterdirect.com/events

This Thursday at 11:00 a.m., let’s talk grant and federal contract readiness!

Scratch that.

We’re opening the playbook.

All you have to do is show up, bring your questions, and be ready to take notes.

This Thursday, the Miles College Women’s Business Center is kicking off The Winning Season™ Grant Readiness Academy with an expert panel featuring:

🌟Sandrieka Moore
Business Opportunity Specialist
U.S. Small Business Administration, SBA Alabama District Office U.S. Small Business Administration

🌟Zhaundra Jones, MBA
Vice President of Strategy and Impact
Women's Foundation of Alabama Women's Foundation of Alabama

🌟Dr. Jarralynne Agee
Miles College Professor and Senior Vice President of Strategic Initiatives and Student Affairs Administrator Miles College

🌟 Hosted and moderated by Talibah M. B., Director of the Miles College Women’s Business Center and Founder & CEO of Bankably.app. TMB Tax & Financial Services Benefit Corporation

If you have ever said, “I wish someone would show me what a winning grant looks like,” this Academy was designed for you.

Participants will gain insight into:

🏆Fully funded grant proposals and successful narratives
🏆Grant budgets and financial readiness
🏆Reviewer expectations and proposal strategies
🏆Federal contracting pathways and SBA resources
🏆AI workflows that can support the grant-writing process
🏆Lessons learned from successful and unsuccessful applications
🏆Practical tools that can be applied immediately

Join us in person or online.

Bring your questions. Leave with tools, examples, and strategies you can actually use.

The Winning Season™ Grant Readiness Academy

📅 Thursday, July 9, 2026

🕚 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

💻 Hybrid: Attend in person at the U.S. Small Business Administration – Alabama District Office, 2 North 20th Street, Suite 325, Birmingham, AL 35203, or join virtually from anywhere.

Register here:
https://mcwbc.ecenterdirect.com/events