Business Impact NW
Shelby Peterson is currently the Senior Compliance Manager and Grants Compliance Manager at Business Impact NW. Previously, Shelby worked as a Housing Support Programs Coordinator at Idaho Housing and Finance Association, a Learning Garden Assistant at Portland Community College, and an Administrative Support Specialist 2 at LifeWorks NW. Shelby's role at Business Impact NW involves overseeing government and private grants compliance for the organization's portfolio of programs. Shelby's background includes supporting administrative tasks for various nonprofit organizations and promoting health and nutrition programs. Shelby holds education from Boise State University and Portland Community College.
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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.