The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a front-page story this morning on the Etsy classes offered by Santa Cruz County, and several CAMEO members were mentioned as supporting the event! There are over 400 Etsy sellers in Santa Cruz County, and more than 90 county residents signed up to take the classes.
Barbara Mason, Santa Cruz County’s economic coordinator, contacted Etsy after learning Santa Cruz County has 400 active Etsy sellers. She didn’t expect a call back from Chief Executive Officer Chad Dickerson. Bottom line: Santa Cruz County is the fourth in the nation to offer craft entrepreneurship classes.
About a dozen organizations including the Central Coast Small Business Development Center contributed funding or time to make the classes possible. … Pricing will be covered this week along with resources such as El Pajaro Community Development Corp., an incubator, Opportunity Fund, which makes loans of up to $5,000, and micro-lenders associated with the California Association for Micro Enterprise Opportunity.