A feature of Greater Grays Harbor, Inc. (GGHI) is to provide business assistance and resource referral. This monthly Business Assistance Briefing is to share relevant and timely resources to support your business, regardless of size.

In today’s world it can be hard to navigate the waters when it comes to running your business, gaining access to capital, permitting, marketing woes, workforce needs, or just getting started – GGHI is here to assist.

Scale Up Business Training

The path to seven figures begins here!

ScaleUp Business Training was designed to help established businesses increase profitability, build capacity, and spur growth.

  • Do you feel like you have no time outside of working in your business?
  • Are you spending too much time on low profit activities?
  • Have high maintenance clients taken over your schedule?
  • Are you thinking of selling your business?
  • Need help interpreting your fiscal drivers?

This powerful program will give you the tools necessary to take your time back, break through the profit plateau, create new sources of revenue, and help you to work on your business rather than in your business!

ScaleUp is a flexible time commitment and is delivered online through the ScaleUp online learning environment, live training sessions with roundtable discussion, and weekly Study Hall mentorship hours. Graduates of the program will also retain continued access to the Alumni resources, which include all the above and much more!

Our trainers are highly qualified and come with years of practical experience building and scaling businesses and helping others do the same.

This program is most beneficial for established business owners, with two or more years’ experience owning and operating a small business and are currently based in Washington state.

This program which normally costs $1,599 is currently provided at no cost to Washington State businesses through June 30, 2025, thanks to ongoing support from the Washington Department of Commerce.

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Enterprise for Equity Business Programs

We are proud to offer emerging and existing entrepreneurs, veterans, creatives, makers, farmers, service-providers, and others in rural areas education, mentoring, technical assistance, and microloans to advance their skills and dreams in the areas of business development and financial well-being.

For over 20 years, we have worked with incredible individuals who have started and grown their dream businesses to create income for themselves and their families. We work with those who care deeply about their communities as well as the environment and value that our business development programs incorporate a strong triple bottom line focus (People, Planet, Profit).

We have a strong commitment to supporting those who have been historically marginalized and to growing our capacity to bring diversity, equity, and inclusion to our work. In this way, we hope to contribute to economically thriving, sustainable, and livable communities in the areas we serve: Thurston, Lewis, Mason, Wahkiakum, Pacific, Grays Harbor, Jefferson, Clallam, and rural Pierce counties.

Currently, the Business Readiness Workshops and Business Planning Programs are FREE to those in our service areas.

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Greater Grays Harbor, Inc., hosts a Business Assistance page on our website that provides a lengthy list of resources related to startups and other business support.

We are happy to conduct a meeting with you to discuss business needs and how to navigate the vast resource network. Please reach out to Loretta Thomas, Program Manager for Business Development at GGHI if you have questions or need some guidance along your business journey.