Thank you for taking a few minutes to complete this survey.

CMAA and its partners are gathering input from local businesses, entrepreneurs, business support organizations, and community members to better understand the experiences, needs, barriers, and opportunities facing AANHPI, immigrant, and multicultural entrepreneurs in the Chicago area.

Your feedback will help inform recommendations to strengthen business support resources, outreach, referrals, partnerships, language access, and future tools such as a business/resource directory.

This survey should take about 3–5 minutes to complete. At the end, you may choose to enter a raffle. Your responses will be used for research and planning purposes. Contact information, if provided, will only be used for raffle notification and approved follow-up related to this project.

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1. What best describes you? (Required.)

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2. What is the name of your business or organization (optional/short answer):

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3. What type of business or organization are you connected to? (Required.)

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4. Where is your business or organization located?

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5. Have you used Chinese Mutual Aid Association (CMAA), Economic Development Center (EDC), Small Business Development Center (SBDC), or APEX Accelerator services before? (Required.)

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6. If you answered yes, currently or yes, in the past to the above question #5, tell us about your experience.

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7. Approximately how long has your business been operating? (Required.)

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8. Approximately how many employees does your business currently have? (Required.)

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9. What is the biggest challenge currently limiting your business growth? (Required.)

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10. Which types of support would be most valuable to your business right now? (Select up to 3) (Required.)

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11. When you need help, guidance, or support related to your business, where do you usually go first? (Required.)

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12. How easy is it to find the right business support resources in Chicago? (Required.)

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13. How confident are you that your business can access the resources needed to grow over the next 2–3 years? (Required.)

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14. How do you usually learn about business opportunities, programs, or resources? (select all that apply) (Required.)

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15. Have language or cultural barriers ever made it harder for you to access business resources or opportunities?

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16. What would make you more likely to participate in economic development programs in the future?

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17. In what language do you prefer to receive business information or services?

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18. Which of the following best describes your background or community identity?

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19. Would a simple online business/resource directory be useful to you? (Required.)

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20. What barriers prevent you from using small business programs? (Required.)

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21. Would you like to enter the raffle and/or be contacted about future opportunities? (Required.)

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22. If you answered yes above for our raffle. Please provide us with your contact details:

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