{"id":435585,"date":"2026-09-14T13:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T13:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/435585\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T13:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T13:46:10","slug":"charles-schwab-bank-and-the-dec-network-announce-fort-worth-entrepreneur-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/435585\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Schwab Bank and The DEC Network Announce Fort Worth Entrepreneur Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n What to know
\nCharles Schwab Bank and The DEC Network announced a planned entrepreneur center in Fort Worth.
\nServices are intended to include financial education, mentoring, coaching and business connections.
\nReported business, job and capital figures concern the existing partnership; broader regional investment totals are not the center\u2019s budget.<\/p>\n

Charles Schwab Bank and The DEC Network have announced Create Fort Worth, an innovation center intended to expand access to business education, financial expertise and mentorship for North Texas entrepreneurs. The project would extend The DEC Network\u2019s physical presence beyond Dallas and bring more in-person support to founders and small businesses in the western half of the region.<\/p>\n

The organizations outlined the expansion in a September 14, 2026 Business Wire press release carried by Yahoo Finance<\/a>. They describe Create Fort Worth as the next phase of a longstanding partnership. The announcement sets out planned services; it does not provide an opening date for the center.<\/p>\n

Financial education is central to the proposal. Charles Schwab employees are expected to participate through mentoring, educational workshops and volunteer engagement, sharing professional expertise with entrepreneurs. The planned center would combine those connections with The DEC Network\u2019s educational programming and community resources.<\/p>\n

Planned Services for Entrepreneurs<\/p>\n

The release lists workshops focused on financial capability and business growth, personalized coaching and guidance, and access to programs and events supporting innovation. It also describes opportunities for entrepreneurs to build relationships within the North Texas business community. These are the partners\u2019 proposed offerings, rather than reported results from a center already operating.<\/p>\n

The Fort Worth location is intended to complement The DEC Network\u2019s established Dallas presence. The partners say a physical location in Fort Worth will make their resources more accessible to entrepreneurs in the western part of the region and create more opportunities to learn and connect in person.<\/p>\n

Bill Chinn, CEO of The DEC Network, also points to Spanish-language workshops as part of the partnership\u2019s expansion of access. In the announcement, he says the support is particularly important in what he calls opportunity zip codes, where access to entrepreneurial resources and job creation can affect individuals, families and communities.<\/p>\n

Chinn presents language access as a way to help entrepreneurs reach education, resources and business connections. The announcement does not quantify demand for the workshops or report outcomes for their participants, so those intended benefits remain the partners\u2019 rationale for the programming.<\/p>\n

\"PeoplePeople reviewing designs in a workspace. Illustrative stock photo via Pexels; not the planned Fort Worth center.
\nFigures From the Existing Partnership<\/p>\n

The organizations say their partnership supports more than 9,000 entrepreneurs annually. They also report that, since partnering with Charles Schwab Bank, The DEC Network has helped launch more than 5,000 businesses, helped create or sustain more than 1,700 jobs, and connected entrepreneurs with more than $3.4 million in capital.<\/p>\n

Those figures describe the existing collaboration, not activity at Create Fort Worth. They are presented in the partners\u2019 press release rather than an independent evaluation accompanying this report. The new center is being announced as an expansion of that relationship.<\/p>\n

In 2025, Charles Schwab Bank became the naming-rights sponsor of The DEC Network\u2019s RedBird center, now called The DEC Network Powered by Charles Schwab Bank. The Fort Worth proposal follows that sponsorship while adding another location to the partners\u2019 stated plans for entrepreneur support.<\/p>\n

A Wider North Texas Commitment<\/p>\n

Tyler Woulfe, chief banking officer at Charles Schwab Bank, connects the initiative to the company\u2019s presence in North Texas. \u201cSmall businesses create jobs, strengthen local economies, and help communities thrive,\u201d he said in the announcement. Woulfe describes support for Fort Worth entrepreneurs as part of Schwab\u2019s commitment to its headquarters community.<\/p>\n

The release places the center within a wider account of Schwab\u2019s regional community investment. The company says it has committed more than $1 billion in community development investments, loans and grants across Dallas-Fort Worth since establishing its headquarters in North Texas. That regional total is separate from funding for the proposed center.<\/p>\n

Schwab also reports awarding more than $5 million in grants to more than 350 local nonprofits and contributing nearly 35,000 employee volunteer hours across North Texas in 2025. For prospective Create Fort Worth participants, the announcement identifies the intended educational and mentoring support, while details such as an opening date and registration arrangements remain unspecified in the release.<\/p>\n

Frequently asked questionsHas Create Fort Worth opened?<\/p>\n

The September 14 announcement describes the planned center and its intended services. It does not provide an opening date.<\/p>\n

What services are planned?<\/p>\n

The partners describe financial-capability and business-growth workshops, personalized coaching, innovation programs and opportunities to connect with experienced professionals.<\/p>\n

What do the reported business and job figures measure?<\/p>\n

The release attributes more than 5,000 business launches, more than 1,700 jobs created or sustained, and more than $3.4 million in capital connections to the existing collaboration, not the new center.<\/p>\n

Is the regional $1 billion commitment funding for the center?<\/p>\n

No. The release describes more than $1 billion in broader Dallas-Fort Worth community development investments, loans and grants since Schwab established its headquarters in North Texas.<\/p>\n

\n Michael Peres is a Columnist at Grit Daily, founder, and software engineer best known for founding various tech and media startups.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What to know Charles Schwab Bank and The DEC Network announced a planned entrepreneur center in Fort Worth.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[910,9535,116,118,117,10714],"class_list":["post-435585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-business","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-startups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}