Small Business Development Services

Small Business Development Services

Small businesses have unique challenges that need to be addressed in order for them to be successful and profitable. Do any of these challenges match what you are currently experiencing?

  1. Access to capital.

Whether it’s starting up, or needing to expand, it is more difficult for small businesses to access the capital they need because they don’t have the assets to leverage loans and investors.

  1. Financial experience.

The business may be competent in their craft, but struggle with setting up a budget, payroll, inventory, and other skills necessary to run their business.

  1. Personnel practices.

Hiring training and retaining a competent workforce is challenging. Small businesses need help with establishing HR policies, outreach, recruitment, hiring, and providing needed support for their employees.

  1. Established relationships.

It’s not just who you know, but “who knows you” that matters. Having established relationships with people you want to do business with is critical. This is especially true in government contracting, where project managers often play it safe by hiring companies that they are familiar with.

Creating Tomorrow’s Workforce has been supporting the development of small business for over 20 years. We provide resources for all the challenges listed above, and will continue to support you as your business develops and grows. We specialize in supporting small consulting businesses, particularly those that want to get established with working for government agencies. This support includes the following:

  1. Help you to find funding sources to support your businesses.

  2. Linking you with experts in financial management so that you set your books up correctly from the start and manage them accurately and competently.

  3. Support your outreach, recruitment and hiring efforts, and establish practices that help you retain your employees.

  4. Introduce you to the world of networking, and make sure that you are in the right places at the right times to meet and establish relationships with the people you need to know. We help you establish relationships with agency project managers, as well as larger companies with which you may want to partner or sub-contract.

  5. Support your efforts to respond to Requests for Proposals (RFPs), Requests for Information (RFIs), develop and management contracts, and memorandums of understanding (MOUs).

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Creating Tomorrow's Workforce" provides workshops that inspire youth, and others exploring careers, by connecting them to professionals of color in the environmental field, who share their experiences, expertise, and methods. By meeting these role models and participating in hands-on programs, young people gain confidence and may begin to see themselves in these careers...

April Ann Fong

Biology and Environmental Sciences and Resources Instructor at Portland Community College

TESTIMONIALS

Trusted by Our Community

Creating Tomorrow's Workforce" provides workshops that inspire youth, and others exploring careers, by connecting them to professionals of color in the environmental field, who share their experiences, expertise, and methods. By meeting these role models and participating in hands-on programs, young people gain confidence and may begin to see themselves in these careers...

April Ann Fong

Biology and Environmental Sciences and Resources Instructor at Portland Community College

TESTIMONIALS

Trusted by Our Community

Creating Tomorrow's Workforce" provides workshops that inspire youth, and others exploring careers, by connecting them to professionals of color in the environmental field, who share their experiences, expertise, and methods. By meeting these role models and participating in hands-on programs, young people gain confidence and may begin to see themselves in these careers...

April Ann Fong

Biology and Environmental Sciences and Resources Instructor at Portland Community College

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Let's Build a Better Future Together.

Let's Build a Better Future Together.

Let's Build a Better Future Together.