How do you navigate preparing yourself for your first or even your fifth loan to ensure you’re utilizing your time and money properly? As interest rates continue to increase, understanding the ins and outs of market expansion and how to be capital ready in a timely fashion is more important than ever. Small Business Majority [...]

With the impact of the pandemic and some stores closed or partially open, more businesses are looking to bring their “shop” online. How do we protect ourselves and our companies against cyber criminals? We all know that we shouldn't email our account information to someone claiming to be a Nigerian prince. We've heard the terms [...]

FEMA Course No.: AWR-414 This course will provide economic developers, emergency managers, and commercial services personnel with the context to understand disaster risks/impacts to businesses and highlight the need for Economic Development Organizations (EDOs) to engage with businesses in disaster preparedness to build economic resilience. 2-hour Live Webinar Training Register for pre-scheduled sessions by clicking [...]

Join us to learn how to start or expand your business with loans guaranteed by the SBA – including 7(a), Microloans and Community Advantage. Hear from local lending experts how higher interest rate affect their underwriting process and lending practices, and how you can position yourself to be “loan ready”. SBA Loans Covered: -7a -Microloans [...]

Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman, head of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and voice for America's 33 million small businesses in President Biden's Cabinet, announced that the agency will host a free, virtual National Cyber Summit on Oct. 26, 2022. This cybersecurity forum, a first for the agency, will help introduce American small businesses to [...]

FEMA Course No.: AWR-414 This course will provide economic developers, emergency managers, and commercial services personnel with the context to understand disaster risks/impacts to businesses and highlight the need for Economic Development Organizations (EDOs) to engage with businesses in disaster preparedness to build economic resilience. 2-hour Live Webinar Training Register for pre-scheduled sessions by clicking [...]

Venue: Citrus Heights Community Center, 6300 Fountain Square Drive Citrus Heights CA 95621 Presented to you by Sacramento Valley SBDC, NorCal SBDC Finance Center, and the City of Citrus Heights. Are you a startup or existing business? Start 2023 strong with financial knowledge, lending information and free business resources that could help you start and [...]

Do you have 45 minutes to help build your bottom line and become more efficient? Ensuring that all components of your business are operating efficiently can help increase your ability to offer quality service to your customers while reinforcing your bottom line. We invite you to hear from experts on how to give your business [...]

Equity and inclusion initiatives have become a critical foundation for many economic development initiatives: job creation and training initiatives for people of color; neighborhood revitalization in majority non-white neighborhoods; connecting entrepreneurs of color to resources that are traditionally less accessible to them. Evaluating the impact of these programs, particularly their long-term efficacy, is a continuing [...]

IMPLAN is a powerful tool for economic developers to analyze change. Join us as we take a closer look in our upcoming webinar on Tuesday, November 8th at 1PM, EST. In this deminar (demo + webinar), IMPLAN’s Sales Director, Doug Arrington, discusses how to use IMPLAN Cloud to run an impact analysis on the construction [...]