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Does your business qualify for a tax credit?

Does your business qualify for a tax credit?

By Brittney Sherman

For the 2026-2027 fiscal year, a total of $819.8M in California Competes Tax Credits are available for allocation to businesses of all sizes and industry. For this upcoming round, opening on July 20, 2026, $350M in tax credits will be available and businesses within the “strengthen” and “accelerate” sector categories as outlined in the California Jobs First Economic Blueprint will be given special consideration. To learn more, register to attend one of the live webinars on July 22 or July 30. The deadline to submit applications is Monday, August 10, 2026, at 11:59 p.m.

The California Competes Tax Credit (CCTC) is an income tax credit available to businesses that want to locate in California or stay and grow in California. Businesses of any industry, size, or location compete for over $180 million available in tax credits by applying in one of the three application periods each year. Applicants will be analyzed based on fourteen different factors of evaluation, including number of full-time jobs being created, amount of investment, and strategic importance to the state or region. Learn more and start your online application.

 
Maintaining and growing your business

Maintaining and growing your business

By Brittney Sherman

Wondering how you can leverage AI, SEO, and social media to grow your business? Have questions about implementing Quickbooks? The Silicon Valley Small Business Development Center (SBDC) offers FREE monthly virtual and in-person trainings and workshops around key business topics. Visit the SBDC upcoming events page to scroll through the list of upcoming classes and pick the topics most relevant to you.

 
Small Business Support Services Open House

Small Business Support Services Open House

By Brittney Sherman

The City of Morgan Hill is excited to announce that Business Support Services offered in collaboration with the Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center have been extended through May 2027! In addition to the continuation of cohort classes, workshops, and 1:1 business consulting, new programs have been added around food entrepreneurship, youth entrepreneurship and financial literacy. Stay tuned for the announcement of an Access to Capital Summit being organized for Fall 2026. To register to participate in an upcoming class cohort, attend the Open House on June 23rd (Eng) or June 25 (Spanish) at the Morgan Hill Adult School.

Learn more about the Business Support Services Program.

 
Youth Entrepreneurship Program is the Newest Economic Mobility Effort

Youth Entrepreneurship Program is the Newest Economic Mobility Effort

By Brittney Sherman

New programs continue to be developed in support of economic mobility, most recently a youth entrepreneurship course called the Morgan Hill Junior Biz Bash. The 6-week summer program, offered as part of the Small Business Support Services contract with Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center, won’t just teach kids about business it will have them experience it firsthand by launching their very own startup. The program culminates in a one-day business fair where kids and teens sell their product to the community. THIS EVENT IS AN ADVENTURE into youth entrepreneurship!

For more information on the program go HERE.

 
Affordable Housing Month

Affordable Housing Month

By Brittney Sherman

May is Affordable Housing Month and a perfect time to reflect not just on housing, but on what it truly means to belong. To demonstrate the importance and value of providing affordable housing, the Housing and Economic Mobility teams have collaborated with partners to organize a series of events all monthlong.

Read the article by Economic Opportunity Program Officer, Mary Magana-Ayala, HERE.

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