Training the Business Trainers
Using CDBG funds, the Portland Development Commission (PDC) runs a business development program for low and moderate incomes residents. To deliver services they contract with about a dozen organizations that…
Growing Businesses
I am working with growing businesses through JEDI’s Power Up Program, offering business and financial management tools. My part of the training covers the financial management tools: Analyzing the Past…
Business Lending Webinars
This month, I designed and delivered a three-part webinar series for small business community lenders in California. The goal of the series was to provide ongoing staff development and increased…
Microlending Primer
The Council of Development Finance Agencies asked me to give their membership an introductory webinar on microlending and the Do-It-Yourself economy. CDFA members are state, county and municipal development finance…
New Women’s Business Center
I teamed up with Joy Taylor and Nancy Swift of Jefferson Economic Development to write an application for a Women’s Business Center designation, and it was chosen! Great news for…
Lending Academy
We're launching CAMEO's Lending Academy this month, with a newsletter and a Peer Learning Exchange on how to create a new loan product. I'll be conducting a few webinars on…
Microlending Forum
I designed and facilitated CAMEO's Microlending Summit this month. We had a great panel of new online lenders -- Lend Up, Lending Club, Prosper and Accion East -- along with…
CAMEO Women’s Symposium
CAMEO hosted a business symposium for food producers in LA, and I learned a lot about California's Homemade Food Act signed in to law in 2013 and allows entrepreneurs to…