Center for Inclusive Entrepreneurship

Empowering Communities Through Business

Start at the Beginning

This is the 4th in a series of posts sharing CIE’s 10 Principles for Redefining Entrepreneurship. Read the previous entry, Removing Barriers to Entrepreneurship. Challenge: With so many different types of people at so many different stages on the journey and with so many different types of businesses, how do you keep everyone moving forward…

Is COVID-19 killing your cash flow? 6 things you can do right now.

COVID-19 and “social distancing” are rocking the business community, especially retail, restaurants and bars. If your business is empty or closed, you need to do everything possible to reduce overhead and conserve cash. Here are six practical and common actions you can take TODAY to manage your cash flow: Defer Your Lease Deferring your rent…

CIE Receives Grant from First Federal Community Foundation

CIE is thrilled to kick off 2020 with the generous support of the First Federal Community Foundation. With the Foundations support for our First Step Business Program, we’ll be able to help many more emerging entrepreneurs start small businesses on the North Olympic Peninsula.  “This support from First Federal Community Foundation is so helpful,” said…

CIE’s 5 Principles of Entrepreneurship

It’s no accident that we focus on local entrepreneurship to build community wealth and resilience. We believe that entrepreneurship does more than provide a means to achieve individual financial self-sufficiency and economic development. Entrepreneurship is an empowerment mindset that everyone has the capacity to develop and that can transform anyone into a leader in building…

Startup Sedro-Woolley participant featured in Skagit Valley Herald

Guvanch Yalkapovs, a participant in CIE’s StartUp Sedro-Woolley business training and competition, landed on the front page of the Skagit Valley Herald, and we couldn’t be more proud! Guvanch’s company ECOPRO2 is tackling the problem of plastic straws head-on by manufacturing a better paper straw. “Yalkapovs said he wanted to help address the problem of…

Taala Fund wins grant, selects CIE as project consultant

The Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) grant is a two-year grant that will focus on Native American small and medium businesses on the Quinault Indian Reservation and throughout Grays Harbor County. A Taala Fund selection committee has selected the Center for Inclusive Entrepreneurship as the consulting firm for the project.   “We are excited to lead…

BUILD SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY WEALTH THROUGH ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Take a quick glance at the local headlines and you’ll see that our region has been booming economically, with incredible growth all over the area. However, despite that economic boost, significant segments of the population remain in depressed conditions. Small family businesses make up over 90% of the U.S. economy, and since the 2008 recession…

Save the Date: Washington Coast Works Fastpitch & Awards Ceremony

We’ve been hard at work in King, Snohomish and Pierce Counties, but did you know we’re also very active on the Olympic Peninsula as well? For the past four years, we have worked to design and implement the Coast Works business competition. Washington Coast Works is now in its third year, 45 participants, 6 new…

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