Initiative for a Competitive Inner City
Equitable AI Growth: A Workforce-Centered Solution for Women-Owned Businesses
A scalable, hands-on initiative that helps women-owned small businesses and their predominantly female workforces adopt AI collaboratively, strengthening productivity, job quality, and long-term economic resilience.
Women-owned small businesses face pressure to adopt AI without workforce-ready guidance, increasing risk, anxiety, and uneven impact. This innovative, team-based program treats AI adoption as a workforce change process, engaging both owners and employees through applied research, learning, peer support, and low-/no-code implementation. The initiative will drive productivity gains, build AI confidence, improve job quality, and enable scalable, responsible AI adoption that strengthens businesses, workers, and local economies.
Primary Barrier
Limited access to AI training
Location
Massachusetts
Solution Region
Nation-wide
Community Type
Urban
Annual Operating Budget
$10.1 to 25 Million
