RVA Works Information Night - Accelerate Your Business

Business & Nonprofit Accelerator
Fall 2025 Cohort is Forming Now

We help more people become business owners! Join us to learn more about our accelerator program which includes:

• 13 Weeks of facilitated discussion
• One-on-one mentoring sessions
• Referrals to other support agencies and service providers
• Alumni group meetings for peer learning and support
• Pro bono attendance in future accelerator sessions
• Weekly networking sessions to expand your professional circle

We have been pleased to report that since 2014, 121 Participants have entered the accelerator program:

• 116 Program Graduates
• 75% Launch a Business
• 38% - Alumni report an average increase of 38% in annual income

Meet Dale Fickett, RVA Works founder. Dale Fickett is an entrepreneurship professor at the University of Richmond, a top 20 undergraduate business school. He also serves as President of RVA Works, a Virginia public charity providing educational and financial services to people facing economic and social barriers to business ownership. He is the lead organizer for Techstars Startup Weekend, a contributing author for Forbes, and provides policy guidance to the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship.

Dale has lectured and conducted research on entrepreneurial finance and developmental economics. His research is focused on access to small business credit, blockchain and AI technologies, and income mobility. He has previously served on board appointments at the Virginia Catholic Conference, and for Virginia's Secretary of Commerce and Trade. He has led ventures in the fintech and retail sectors, and served as a strategy consultant with Accenture’s European Financial Services practice. He holds a BSBA from LaSalle University, and an MBA from Villanova University. His passion is being a father to his daughter and son, as well as his missionary work in rural Haiti.

Logistics. Connect with RVA Works alumni-entrepreneurs, mentors, and others joining the Fall 2025 cohort. Have your questions ready:

• Thursday, September 4th
• 6pm - 8pm

No pre-registration is required. Join us:

Henrico Federal Credit Union
at Henrico Adult Education - Regency Campus
1420 North Parham Road
Henrico, VA

Parking. Free parking is available near NOVA of Virginia Aquatics, in the lower level of the parking deck. Please proceed to the corner entrance with the Blue Henrico Adult Education sign.

Please Note: This is an in-person only event, with no virtual option.