CAMEO’s Women Veterans Entrepreneurship Network offers year-round community events to foster new businesses. Veterans Day is an excellent time to promote your business development classes and special programs for veterans, military spouses and caregivers. Join us for tips on how to engage more military-connected business owners in time for Veterans Day.
Category: Trainings
Small Business Disaster Recovery and Resilience
After last year’s fire season and the start of this year’s, we’re living in a new normal. Fires and other disasters (earthquakes, floods, etc.) have a profound effect on local businesses. After reaching out to those affected, they are looking for contacts to agencies/organizations who might provide resources such as microloans to businesses. Don’t wait until it’s too late, prepare now.
Data Collection: Make the Case for Funding and Get It Right From Intake To Reporting
The actual nuts and bolts of gathering data can be difficult if you don’t build them into your program from the beginning. To help you with your data collection process, we’ve brought together three experts to explain the benefits of good data collection and demystify the process.
Tech Tools: Bringing Business Assistance into the Future
Technology is changing EVERYTHING. Including business assistance. Our members are having innovative responses to the changing landscape. Learn how several of your peers are developing products and services to respond to the rapid changes in the economy and society.
Ironing Out the Issues
With so much going on in Washington and Sacramento, we have gathered our policy friends to keep you informed of all the excitement.
Intro to Quickbooks Self-Employed
Credit Building Strategies for Entrepreneurs
Credit building is a powerful tool that helps entrepreneurs take control of their financial lives, establish and grow their businesses, and pursue other asset building goals. In this webinar, Credit Builders Alliance (CBA) will introduce you to the services and support available through CBA membership. In addition, you will learn about the power of credit building for entrepreneurs and how you can incorporate credit building into your array of program and support services.
Micro Lending Academy: Lending Life Cycle and Technology
We know that FinTech’s technology led to an explosion of online lending, much of it usurious. Across the country, CDFIs are building their own online platforms for quality community lending — including our own Robert Lopez, COO of Valley Economic Development Corporation in Los Angeles.
What’s Cooking In A DIY Economy?
Join us for a webinar that explores why you need an entrepreneurship strategy, and the tools that ensure success. We’ll focus on new business incubator models: kitchen incubators, maker spaces, co-working spots and cooperative incubators.
Micro Lending Academy: Excellence in Lending Discussion
CAMEO invites leaders and the big thinkers to a presentation from Opportunity Fund on their lending process. Their process — which does not use high tech algorithms nor online applications — led them to close 1,560 microloans this past year. The business model that allows such scale has elements that leaders in the CAMEO lending network need to consider.