BCIC Announces the Relaunch of the Brownsville Small Business Recovery Fund
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, May 22, 2023 — The Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation (BCIC) is excited to announce the relaunch of its successful Small Business Recovery Fund program, formerly known as the “ReOpen for Business Assistance program.” The program will continue to provide critical support to local businesses impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic with forgivable micro-loans […]
The Ebridge Center for Business & Commercialization Receives Award at 2022’s IEDC Annual Conference
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS- The Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation (BCIC) was recognized for its eBridge Center for Business and Commercialization project during the 2022 International Economic Development Council’s annual conference in Oklahoma City in September. BCIC and their partner, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) Entrepreneurship and Commercialization Center, received a Bronze Award in the […]
BCIC Now Accepting Applications for Third Annual StartUp Texas Ideation Pitch Summit
BROWNSVILLE, Texas – The third annual “StartUp Texas Pitch Summit,” hosted by the Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation, is now open and accepting applications. The event will be the first ever in-person version since the program began in March of 2020. The Startup Texas Pitch Summit, a live event where early-stage companies pitch their product/service to […]
U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development Makes Historic Visit to Brownsville and Tours Construction of Future eBridge Center
BROWNSVILLE, Texas – Alejandra Y. Castillo, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development (EDA) made history for being the first EDA assistant secretary to ever visit a project of this scale in Brownsville. Castillo and her delegation saw firsthand how the construction of the future “eBridge Center for Business and Commercialization” is coming along, a […]
BCIC Receives HUD CARES Fund Grant to Assist Local Businesses
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS – The Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation (BCIC) was recently awarded $581,667 by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to help microenterprises (less than five employees) and small businesses (50 employees or less) in Brownsville that were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The grant’s purpose is to help our local workforce. This […]
BCIC Now Accepting Applications for eBridge Fund Program
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS – Today, The Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation (BCIC) announced they are now accepting applications for their eBridge Fund Program. One of main goals of the eBridge Fund program is for a business to use the funds to fill in financing needs and to serve as an economic development tool to encourage business expansion, […]
BCIC Announces Grant Recipients for the 2nd Round of the BIG Grant 2.0 Program
BROWNSVILLE, TX – Today, The Board of Directors for the Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation (BCIC) approved the recommendations to fund three applicants in the second round of the Business Improvement and Growth (“BIG”) Program 2.0. With funding provided by the Musk Foundation, this latest round of assistance from the BIG 2.0 program totals $370,000 of […]
BCIC, Cameron County Education Initiative, Launch App Development Program
BROWNSVILLE, TX – A partnership between the Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation (BCIC), Cameron County Education Initiative (CCEI), Workforce Solutions Cameron, Augusta Hitech, and SoliSYSTEMS is paving the way for entrepreneurs and small businesses to engage in mobile app development. The grant funded program provides training in Flutter, Google’s open source technology for creating mobile, desktop, […]
Over $17M in Private Capital towards Downtown Brownsville Revitalization
THURSDAY, September 2nd, 2021 • Brownsville, Texas The Board of Directors for the Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation (BCIC) approved the recommendations to fund five applicants in the first round of the Business Improvement and Growth (“BIG”) Program 2.0 applications. BIG 2.0 provides financial support to commercial property owners, eligible businesses and developers to improve existing […]
BCIC Announces BIG 2.0 Program
BROWNSVILLE, TX – The Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation announced the start of their Business Improvement and Growth Program 2.0 (“BIG 2.0 Program”) today, in collaboration with the Musk Foundation. For the past three years, Brownsville’s Historic Downtown has embarked on a huge endeavor towards redevelopment with assistance from BCIC’s original BIG Grant program established as […]