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About This Event
Running a small business as a Catholic can be both rewarding and isolating. You want to honor your faith, serve your customers well, and grow sustainably, but most business networks are either too focused on rapid startup growth or feel far removed from your day-to-day reality.
Main Street is here to change that.
This is a new, welcoming community for Catholic small business owners—people with storefronts, services, consultancies, or digital ventures—who want to connect with peers, share insights, and support one another while keeping faith at the center.
What to Expect
👋 Introductions & Fellowship: Meet other Catholic business owners who share your values.
💡 Business Exchange: An open roundtable where participants swap practical advice (marketing, hiring, cash flow, growth pains).
🙏 Faith Integration: We’ll open with a brief prayer and a short reflection to ground our work in Catholic teaching.
🌱 Community Visioning: Be part of shaping what Main Street will become—monthly calls, peer groups, directories, and more.
Who Should Join
- Catholic entrepreneurs and founders
- Small business owners ($100K – $2M in revenue, or just getting started)
- Professionals seeking to integrate their faith with their work life
- Anyone who feels “too Main Street” for the startup accelerators but still wants growth, fellowship, and accountability
Why Join Now
This is the inaugural gathering. By joining, you’ll be a founding voice in shaping a grassroots Catholic business community that is approachable, practical, and authentically faithful.
Register today and help us build Main Street: a Community of Catholic Small Business Owners.
20% of all proceeds will be donated to Catholic Charities USA.
📖 About the Host: Alexander Francis
Alexander Francis is a parishioner at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in Manhattan, where he entered the Catholic Church in 2025 after a long personal journey of faith. His conversion gave him a deep passion for creating authentic Catholic spaces where people can encounter Christ and one another in reverence and joy.
He first began facilitating online communities in 2020, when he hosted more than 100 Zoom sessions for the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange during their formation process. Providing both technical support and a prayerful structure, Alexander helped create a safe and supportive technology-enabled space for religious life to flourish in a time of distance.
Professionally, Alexander is Founder and CEO of a boutique technology consulting company. The same skills he uses to help organizations thrive—clarity, structure, and technology-enabled connection—are what he brings to Catholic community-building. His unique blend of spiritual commitment and professional expertise ensures that every gathering is both prayerful and well-run.
