Small Business Resiliency Network
Partners of the Small Business Resiliency Network (SBRN) provide culturally and linguistically relevant assistance and other business support services at no cost to entrepreneurs, small businesses and nonprofits – with an emphasis on those owned by historically marginalized and underserved persons – throughout Washington.
Is your small business or nonprofit looking for help? If “yes”, please use our map or table to find a Commerce Small Business Resiliency Network member organization for free assistance.
- Finding and applying for resources
- Technical assistance
- Accessing translation assistance
- Navigating local, state and federal resources
Review the Small Business Resiliency Network Overview (PDF) for a more extensive listing of the services provided.
| Communities Served | Service Area | For Assistance Contact |
|---|---|---|
| African American or Black | Spokane County | Carl Maxey Center 509-795-1886 amos@carlmaxey.org |
| African American or Black and community at large | King County | Tabor 100 206-368-4042 aleyda@tabor100.org |
| African American or Black and People of Color | Federal Way, Kent | Federal Way Black Collective 206-379-1717 andrew.powers@fwblackcollective.com |
| African American or Black, Chinese, Latinx, Multi-Ethnic, Vietnamese (Services also available in Arabic, Bantu, French, Hausa, Igbo, Iranian, Kikuyu, Luo, Oromo, Somali, Swahili, Tagalog, Twi, Yoruba) | Spokane County | Multi-Ethnic Business Association (AHANA-MEBA) 509-999-5365 ahana.ed@ahana-meba.org |
| African Immigrant and Refugee (Services also available in Amharic, Kiswahili, Oromo, Somali, Tigrinya) | King, Pierce, Snohomish, Spokane & Yakima Counties | African Chamber of Commerce of the Pacific Northwest (ACCPNW) 253-314-1199 jrorie123@yahoo.com |
| African, African American or Black, Multi-racial | King, Snohomish Counties & some Eastern WA | Ethiopian Community in Seattle 206-325-0304 x103 tsegad@ecseattle.org |
| African-descent immigrants and refugees | King County | African Community Housing Development (ACHD) 206-257-1166 abokor@achdo.org |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | Statewide | Sister Sky, Inc. 509-315-9808 tracy@sisterskyinc.com |
| Asian Pacific (Services also available in Cambodian, Chammoro, Chinese, Fijian, Ilocano, Japanese, Korean, Laos, Marshallese, Samoa, Tagalog, Taiwanese, Thailand, Tongan, Vietnamese) | King & Pierce Counties and State-wide | Asia Pacific Cultural Center (APCC) 253-383-3900 hong@asiapacificculturalcenter.org |
| Asian: Cambodian Americans, Khmer Americans | Clark, King, Pierce, Skagit, Snohomish & Whatcom Counties | Cambodian American Community Council of WA 206-886-6813 sambath.eat@caccwa.org |
| Asian: Chinese (Services also available in Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese) | Chinatown International District of King County | Seattle Chinatown International District Preservation and Development Authority 206-838-8713 jamiel@scidpda.org |
| Asian: Filipino, Cambodian (Services also available in Khmer, Tagalog, Hmong) | King, Pierce, & Yakima Counties | Filipino Community of Seattle 206-683-8700 rosete80@gmail.com |
| Asian: Indian (Services also available in Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Malyalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu) | King, Pierce & Snohomish Counties | Indian-American Community Services 253-234-9989 executivedirector@iaww.org |
| Asian: Japan American and community at large | Statewide | Japan-America Society of the State of Washington 206-374-0180 dwatanabe@jassw.org |
| Asian: Korean (Services also available in Korean) | Clark, King, Pierce, Snohomish & Spokane Counties and Statewide | Seattle-Washington State Korean Association 253-312-8115 Loriwada67@gmail.com |
| Asian: Vietnamese American (Services also available in Vietnamese) | King County (Little Saigon, Rainier Valley, White Center) | Friends of Little Sài Gòn (FLS) 425-243-4027 kenney.tran@flsseattle.org |
| Latino (Servicios disponibles en Español) | Chelan & Douglas Counties | Community for the Advancement of Family Education (CAFE) 509-667-1926 alma.chacon@wenatcheecafe.org |
| Latino (Servicios disponibles en Español) | King, Pierce & Snohomish Counties | El Centro de La Raza 360-986-7022 vcserrato@elcentrodelaraza.org |
| Latino (Servicios disponibles en Español) | Clark County | Hispanic Metropolitan Chamber 360-450-9044 osalomon@hmccoregon.com |
| Latino (Servicios disponibles en Español) | East & West Wenatchee, Pierce, Yakima Counties | Latino Community Fund of Washington 509-949-2026 elujan@latinocommunityfund.org |
| Latino (Servicios disponibles en Español) | Adams, Benton, Franklin, Grant & Walla Walla Counties | Tri-Cities Hispanic Chamber of Commerce 509-542-0933 valadez_torres@yahoo.com |
| Latino (Servicios disponibles en Español) | King & Snohomish Counties | Ventures 206-352-1945 ahollander@venturesnonprofit.org |
| LGBTQ+, People of Color and Allies | King, Kitsap, Pierce, Snohomish, Thurston, & Walla Walla Counties | GSBA 206-363-9188 torayam@thegsba.org |
| Micro Enterprise, Independent Businesses | Clallam, Island, Jefferson, North Kitsap & Skagit Counties | Center for Inclusive Entrepreneurship 360-230-8082 marisa.herrera@cie-nw.org alex.alvarez@cie-nw.org |
| Micro Enterprise, Independent Businesses (Servicios disponibles en Español, Services available in Russian, and American Sign Language) | Central & Eastern Washington | Spokane Independent Metro Business Alliance (SIMBA) 509-939-0015 mariah@spokaneindependent.org |
| Micro Enterprise, Independent Businesses, Start-up | Tacoma & Pierce County | William Factory Small Business Incubator 253-566-1257 tim@williamfactory.com |
| Muslim, Middle Eastern/Arab, South Asian, Immigrant/Refugee, People of Color | King, Pierce & Snohomish Counties | Muslim Association of Puget Sound (MAPS) 425-202-6126 gul.siddiqi@mapsredmond.org |
| Hispanic or Latino, Immigrant/Refugee – Indigenous Mexican, LGBTQIA+ | King County and parts of Snohomish County | Centro Cultural Mexicano 425-896-7067 mayra@centroculturalmexicano.org |
| Hispanic or Latino, Immigrant/Refugee, ITIN holders | Spokane County | Latinos en Spokane 509-558-9359 info@latinosenspokane.org |
| Black/African American, Hispanic or Latino, Immigrant/Refugee – East African community | King County (Seattle White Center, Rainier Valley, Central District, Tukwila, Federal Way) and Pierce County (Tacoma) | Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle 206-561-8887 smuhummed@urbanleague.org |
