The Portland Metro Chamber & Portland Community College’s Small Business Development Center (SBDC) offers an amazing program to help small businesses level up!

We are now accepting applications for our 2025 program, which includes a 10-month training course from February-November 2025 and is designed to help new and experienced business owners increase revenue, improve operations, hire talented employees and more.

Participants will meet once a month to learn about:
  • Sourcing capital and financing
  • Marketing and financial management
  • Exploring new markets
This program is designed for small businesses that:
  • Are selling (or seeking to sell) products/services outside of the Portland region
  • Have been in business for 2+ years
  • Have at least one FTE employee
  • Are seeking ways to grow and expand their business
In an effort to make this program more affordable and available to all, the Chamber, with the generous support of Bank of America, offers scholarships for 12 small businesses to participate in this program at a lower cost, with a total program fee of $500.
In addition, each program participant will receive a two year membership to the Portland Metro Chamber.

Program scholarships are made possible thanks to partnership with Bank of America.

Applications are open to all
and are due by October 31, 2024


Questions? Contact Makaylaa Clancy at makaylaa@portlandmetrochamber.com

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* 1. Please provide your contact information

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* 2. Please provide business information

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* 3. Entity Type

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* 4. Is your organization owned by a person (or people) from the following groups (select all that apply)

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* 5. Annual Sales

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* 6. Number of Employees

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* 7. Do you prepare and use monthly financial statements?

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* 8. Does your business have a current business plan or a strategic plan?

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* 9. Does your business have an employee handbook, job description and a performance management system?

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* 10. Do you have a marketing plan with a marketing budget?

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* 11. Do you have documented operating procedures?

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* 12. Do you have outside funding? 

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* 13. Have you developed an exit strategy?

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* 14. ESSAY QUESTION: Please describe, in 500 words or less, the challenge(s) your company currently faces *

DISCLAIMERS
By applying for this program, I agree that the Portland Metro Chamber, its employees and agents have the right to photograph, videotape and record me throughout the course and use my photographed, videotaped and/or recorded name, likeness, voice, and statements to promote the Portland Metro Chamber, including without limitation, a derivative use, without compensation to me, at the sole discretion of the Chamber and I release the Portland Metro Chamber, its agents, affiliates, and licensees from all liability connected to their use of my name, likeness, voice or statements including, without limitation, any right of privacy or publicity claims.

The information contained in this application is true and accurate to the best of my knowledge.

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