Business Impact NW
Emily Yoder, MSW, currently holds the position of External Affairs Operations Manager at Business Impact NW, a CDFI dedicated to providing underserved entrepreneurs access to capital. Prior to this role, Emily worked at Evergreen Ford Lincoln as a HR and Benefits Manager and at Amazon as an Office Coordinator. Emily holds a Bachelor's degree in Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies from Eastern Washington University and a Master's degree in Social Work from the University of Washington.
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.