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If you want to grow your business and need help with your strategy, sales, marketing, operations, HR, capital needs, or technology transformation, find out if our NEXT program is right for you.

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For financial institutions, OWEDC offers the opportunity to achieve CRA goals, provide support resources for bank customers, and training and volunteer opportunities for staff.

Community foundations can support programming executed in partnership with local community-based organizations with support directed to target specific communities or industry segments.

Philanthropic organizations can support the development of new tools and methods for supporting small businesses in underserved communities including curriculum, navigator development, as well as general operational resources for OWEDC.

Community organizations who have an interest in supporting their small businesses but lack current staffing or expertise can partner with OWEDC to develop comprehensive programming and in-house business navigators to quickly deploy support and take advantage of funding opportunities.

Federal, state and local government initiatives focusing on economic development can support the collaborative work of new community organizations that want to start or expand business assistance resources.

These organizations are trusted resources in their communities and are often best able to bring government resources to these communities.  OWEDC can provide the support to these organizations to provide a robust turnkey solution to supporting small businesses.

If you have small business expertise, are thinking of moving into business consulting, or want to volunteer to help your community. OWEDC can engage you to provide training, personalized consulting and connect you to new clients.

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Fundamental to our approach is to fill the gaps in resources and work with others who are currently running programs that support small business owners. 

We can provide access to our community of entrepreneurs for recruiting to your programs. OWEDC can also provide follow-on engagement that extends the value of your programming to the participants and enhances your program's impact metrics.

Many corporations are developing content and programming that supports small businesses. These are often provided online in a “self-serve” model. By collaborating with OWEDC, we can utilize your programs as the core training and provide personalized mentorship sessions that enhance the value to participants, increases engagement and completion, and delivers better outcomes. 

Collaboration with OWEDC also provides an opportunity to develop volunteer opportunities for employees who are interested in using their business skills to help their communities.