Business Impact NW
Barbara O. currently serves as a Technical Assistant Administrator at Business Impact NW, a CDFI focused on supporting underserved entrepreneurs with access to capital and business assistance since November 2022. Previous experience includes roles as a Travel Coordinator and Administrative Assistant at SERA Architects from June to November 2022, an Assistant in Pedagogy and Studies at St Margaret's Anglican Girls School from April 2018 to April 2019, and an Administrative Assistant for the Studies Team at All Hallows' School from January 2015 to February 2018. Barbara O. holds an Associate's degree in General Studies and a Certificate in Website Development & Design from Portland Community College, obtained between 2019 and 2021.
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Business Impact NW
Business Impact NW provides coaching, classes, and capital to meet the needs of low/moderate-income business owners and underserved areas in Washington and Oregon; particularly, serving women, persons of color, veteran, immigrant, and LGBTQ+ owned businesses in order to create positive economic impact within these communities. Business Impact NW offers financing and coaching services at every stage in a business’s development. Through our in-house programs, we offer support classes and one-on-one counseling for all entrepreneurs, from startup to established business ownership. As a community lender, we offer business loans from $5,000-$350,000 to qualified small business entrepreneurs. We also focus on partnerships across the Pacific Northwest in order to deliver robust opportunities. This collaboration includes credit unions, banks, corporations, private foundations and gov’t agencies including the SBA and CDFI; local gov’t HUD and economic development departments; our own robust training/coaching programs with the WA Women’s Business Center and the Veterans Business Outreach Center; and diverse local community development not-for-profit partner organizations.