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Wenatchee Valley College Continuing Education
Center for Entrepreneurship

Welcome to the new Center for Entrepreneurship website! Please check back often as the site develops and grows.

The mission of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Wenatchee Valley College is to assist existing and future entrepreneurs by providing a one-stop access point for regional resources in training, counseling, networking and doing business in North Central Washington.

Continuing Education, Wenatchee Valley College
Continuing Education offers noncredit classes and workshops. Classes are delivered in a variety of ways, offering flexibility for busy entrepreneurs and business owners. Classes may be one-day events, live streaming classes from our partners at Whatcom Community College in Bellingham, or online classes. Longer, more intensive entrepreneurship classes are currently in development. Classes we have offered or are currently offering include:

  • Twenty Ways Twitter and Facebook Will Grow
    Your Business
  • Creating Facebook Ads: A Step-by-Step
    Webinar
  • Master Your Marketing Skills
  • Become an Expert in Target Marketing
  • Increasing Sales in a Tough Economy
  • How to Develop a Business Financing
    Proposal
  • The Entrepreneur's Life: Do You
    Have the Right Stuff?
  • Write Blogs That Get Noticed
  • Media Plan and Budget
  • Best of Social Media: Top Ten
    Strategies to Build Your Business
  • Branding Your Business
  • Cutting Edge Marketing:
    Expanding Your Web Presence

To view currently offered courses:  http://wenatchee.augusoft.net/index.cfm?fuseaction=1010

ed2go Our online training partner, ed2go, offers many business related classes. Online ed2go classes start once a month and most are only $95. Visit the ed2go website today!

WVC Continuing Education
1300 Fifth Street
Wells Hall, Wing 2
Wenatchee, WA  98801
ceinfo@wvc.edu
(509) 682-6900
 

Business Counseling

Washington State Small Business Development Centers (SBDC)
Small Business Develpment Counselors provide free, confidential business counseling for prospective and established business owners.

 
Chelan/Douglas Counties               Okanogan County
Jim Fletcher, Counselor
238 Olds Station Rd.
Wenatchee, WA  98801
jim.fletcher@wsbdc.org
509-888-7252
  Lew Blakeney, Counselor
320 Omak Ave. #400
Omak, WA  98841
blakeney@methow.com
509-826-5107


SCORE "Counselors to America's Small Business"
SCORE counselors provide free, confidential business advice.

Central Washington SCORE Chapter
300 S. Columbia Street, 3rd floor
Wenatchee, WA  98801
score@wenatchee.org
(509) 662-2116

Regional Networks

Greater Wenatchee Area Technology Alliance (GWATA)
GWATA is a north central Washington organization that connects people and technology and encourages entrepreneurship, innovation and economic vitality. 

P.O. Box 4943
Wenatchee, WA 98807-4943
(509) 661-9000

North Central Washington Economic Development District (NCWEDD)
The NCW EDD develops and facilitates relationships between private and public sectors to coordinate a strategy for regional economic development.

Jennifer Korfiatis, Administrator
PO Box 1064
Wenatchee, WA  98807
jennifer@ncwedd.com
(509) 682-6907

The North Central Washington Resource Conservation & Development Council (RC&D)
"The vision of the NCW RC&D is to be the grassroots organization facilitating and fostering cooperation,local leadership, and concern for the environment in such a way that the overall economic health and quality of life in the tri-county region will be served." 

Samantha Bartling
USDA/NRCS/NCW RC&D Coordinator
1251 2nd Ave South, Suite 101
Okanogan, WA 98840
Samantha.Bartling@wa.usda.gov
(509) 422-2750 ext. 107


Economic Alliance

PO Box 626
320 Omak Avenue
Omak, WA  98841
cdavis@economic-alliance.com
(509) 826-5107

 

Links to Local Resources

Chelan/Douglas Counties

    

Okanogan County

Cities
City of Wenatchee
(509) 888-6200
  City of Omak
(509) 826-1170
City of East Wenatchee
(509) 884-9515
  Town of Winthrop
(509) 996-2320
City of Leavenworth
(509) 548-5275
  Town of Twisp
(509) 997-4081
City of Cashmere
(509) 782-3513
  City of Tonasket
(509) 486-2132
City of Chelan
(509) 682-4037
  City of Okanogan
(509) 422-3600
City of Entiat
(509) 784-1500
   
 
Port Districts
Port of Chelan County
(509) 663-5159
   
Port of Douglas County
(509) 884-4700
   
     
Chambers of Commerce
Wenatchee Valley Chamber
(509) 662-2116
  Omak Chamber
(509) 826-1880
Leavenworth Chamber
(509) 548-5807
  Winthrop Chamber
(509) 996-2125
Cashmere Chamber
(509) 782-7404
  Twisp Chamber
(509) 997-2020
 Lake Chelan Chamber
(509) 682-3503
  Tonasket Chamber
(509) 486-4429 
North Central Washington
Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

(509) 665-7327 (Ruth Macias, Pres.)
   

 

Financial Resources

Quest Loan Fund
300 S. Columbia St., Wenatchee
(509) 663-5711

           WA State Department of Revenue
(509) 663-9714

NCW Loan Fund
(509) 860-4330
   
     


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