NACCE

What NACCE does

NACCE (National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit membership association founded in 2001 and headquartered in Cary, North Carolina. It serves more than 350 community and technical colleges across North America and roughly 3,000 individual educators, administrators, presidents, and entrepreneurs. Member colleges pay $1,200 per year and receive access to professional development, funding opportunities, the NACCE network, and the members-only Skills curriculum, including Intuit Design for Delight, Financial Management for Entrepreneurs, and Michelson IP education. NACCE's flagship event is its annual conference, scheduled for Boston in November 2026 and Tucson in October 2027, with registration priced $949-$1,449 depending on member status and timing.

The organization's technology anchor is the SkillPointe platform, acquired in February 2024 as a $6-7 million charitable donation. SkillPointe is a free consumer-facing career exploration tool covering 1,000+ colleges and 60,000+ programs across 79 career pathways in 10 industries, and incorporates an AI-powered visual career-matching quiz and an AI assistant that explains salary expectations and career trajectories. The platform has served more than 4.5 million visitors and connects to a downstream audience of 3.3 million students represented by member colleges, making it both a workforce-development asset and a distribution channel.

NACCE monetizes through four streams: membership dues, conference registrations, corporate sponsorships (Verizon, Baker Hill, Infosys Foundation USA, Ratcliffe Foundation, Michelson 20MM, SlyngShot), and grant funding that is largely pass-through to member colleges, with over $40 million sub-awarded since 2022. Programmatic offerings include the Everyday Entrepreneur Program and Fund (now at 100+ colleges), the Veteran Capital Readiness Initiative (V-CAP) with IVMF funded by a $3 million MBDA grant, CEED to Success with Baker Hill, Upskilling Virginia with InsideTrack, the SkillPointe School Counselor Advisory Council, and the Presidents for Entrepreneurship Pledge. Strategic partners span federal agencies (SBA, MBDA), universities (Syracuse IVMF, Indiana CIBER), and corporate foundations, with leadership headed by President & CEO Dr. Rebecca Corbin since January 2015.

Name

NACCE

Legal name

National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship

Website

https://nacce.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2001

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

NACCE is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit membership association serving 350+ community and technical colleges across North America with professional development, an annual conference, workforce-development programs, and the AI-powered SkillPointe career exploration platform.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Cary

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership Dues: Annual membership fees for community colleges and individual educators. NACCE serves over 350 member colleges with approximately 3,000 educators, administrators, presidents, and entrepreneurs.
2. Conference Revenue: Registration fees for annual NACCE conferences and regional events. Early bird fees: $949 for members, $1,349 for non-members. Standard pricing: $1,049 for members, $1,449 for non-members.
3. Grant Funding and Regranting: NACCE secures grant funding from foundations and government sources, then regrants funds to member colleges. Since 2017, NACCE has regranted over $40 million in sub-awards to member colleges. The SkillPointe platform was acquired as a charitable donation valued at $7 million in 2023.
4. Sponsorships: Corporate sponsorship opportunities for NACCE events and programs. Partners include Verizon, Baker Hill, Infosys Foundation USA, Philip E. & Carole R. Ratcliffe Foundation, IVMF, Michelson 20MM Foundation, Indiana University CIBER, and SlyngShot.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

NACCE is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit membership association that supports entrepreneurship education and workforce development at community and technical colleges. Its core offerings include annual college memberships, the SkillPointe AI-powered career exploration platform, an annual conference, the NACCE Institute for professional development, and grant-funded programs such as the Everyday Entrepreneur Program and the Veteran Capital Readiness Initiative (V-CAP). NACCE regrants funds from foundations and government agencies to member colleges.

Product overview

NACCE (National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship) operates as a membership-based organization serving community colleges rather than a traditional product company. Its portfolio centers on the SkillPointe technology platform—a free AI-powered career exploration tool acquired as a $6-7 million charitable donation in 2023 that connects students to over 1,000 colleges and 60,000 programs. Complementing the platform are workforce development programs including the CEED to Success initiative, the Veteran Capital Readiness Initiative (V-CAP), and the Everyday Entrepreneur Program. NACCE also delivers professional development through its annual conference, awards programs, and the NACCE Institute, along with member resources covering design thinking (Intuit D4D), financial management curriculum, and IP education through Michelson IP.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• Over $40 million in grants awarded to member colleges since 2022
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability4 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered major, core and minor.

• InsideTrackmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 18 March 2026Upskilling Virginia campaign partnership deploying SkillPointe platform to Virginia's 23 community colleges. InsideTrack success coaches support up to 1,000 working adults pursuing industry-recognized credentials. Combines AI-enabled tools with human coaching for career pathways.
• Baker HillcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 4 December 2025Launched CEED to Success, a national pilot program designed to empower underserved entrepreneurs including veteran-, women-, and minority-owned businesses. Built on Baker Hill's Community Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Development (CEED) framework, the initiative leverages NACCE's network of community colleges to deliver training, mentorship, and financial readiness support.
• IVMF (D'Aniello Institute for Veterans and Military Families) - Syracuse UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 11 July 2024Partnership to expand the Veteran Capital Readiness Initiative (V-CAP), a $3 million program funded by the U.S. Department of Commerce's Minority Business Development Agency. V-CAP provides capital access and financial readiness training to veteran entrepreneurs, particularly those in rural areas, preparing them for federal contracts and procurement opportunities.
• SBA Community Navigator Pilot Program (CNPP)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 8 March 2023NACCE named as a Spoke on SBA's Community Navigator Pilot Program, a curated network providing guidance, resources, and high-touch services to veteran and military-connected entrepreneurs. Addresses the finding that 44% of veteran entrepreneurs express difficulty navigating local resources.
• IVMFcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerD'Aniello Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University is a strategic partner delivering programs in career, vocations, and entrepreneurship education to transitioning service members, veterans, and military spouses. Supports the STRIVE program and V-CAP initiative with NACCE.
• Indiana University CIBERminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCenter for International Business Education and Research providing scholarship opportunities for NACCE conference attendance to enhance international understanding and trade competitiveness.
• SlyngShotminorGTM or Marketing PartnerInnovation partner supporting NACCE events and programs. Appears on NACCE's sponsor page.
• NCCET (National Council for Workforce Education)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic alliance to help community colleges better connect workforce training, academic programs, and career pathways. Partnership announced June 2, 2026.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Regional players

• Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE): Membership association serving education advancement/development professionals; comparable association structure and conference model but focused on fundraising rather than entrepreneurship.

Direct peers

• League for Innovation in the Community College: Long-standing nonprofit serving community college leaders with conferences, publications, and innovation programs; closely comparable mission and member base to NACCE.
• National Council for Workforce Education (NCCET): A peer workforce-education membership body for community and technical colleges; NCCET is already a NACCE strategic ally and serves the same faculty/administrator audience on workforce program design.
• American Association of Community Colleges (AACC): The principal national membership association for community colleges, serving a substantially overlapping institutional base as NACCE and offering comparable advocacy, professional development, and conference programming.
• Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE): Nonprofit delivering entrepreneurship education to youth, often through community college and high school pathways; comparable mission to NACCE's Everyday Entrepreneur Program at a more student-facing layer.
• Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT): National association representing community college governing boards and CEOs; targets the same college leadership audience (e.g., Top Community College CEO Award) and overlapping policy/governance concerns as NACCE.

Emerging players

• CareerOneStop (U.S. Department of Labor): Federally sponsored career exploration and job-search platform offering training program search similar to SkillPointe; not an association but the closest direct product substitute for NACCE's career platform.

Broad incumbents

• UPCEA (University Professional and Continuing Education Association): Larger membership association for professional, continuing, and online education across higher ed; overlaps with NACCE in workforce and adult-learner programming but serves a broader institutional set.
• Junior Achievement USA: Large established nonprofit focused on youth entrepreneurship and workforce readiness education; addresses similar skills-gap and career-pathway needs through K-12 and community channels.
• National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE): Membership association connecting employers and colleges on career readiness and workforce outcomes; adjacent to SkillPointe's career-exploration function and shares employer-facing positioning.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/NACCEeship
• Xx.com/nacce

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A1 record

Investments

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