A group of community stakeholders has organized to help grow Black business in Staunton. The Staunton Black Business Collective was...

What happens when 120+ ecosystem builders descend on the Shenandoah Valley In April 2024, SCCF excitedly welcomed a national, grassroots...

What the Ecosystem team has been up to In March, the Ecosystem team participated in the following activities: Co-hosted the first Women...

Four insights from the first Regional Coalition work session of 2024 Twice a year, the SCCF Ecosystem team convenes the Regional...

What to expect at the upcoming Startup Champions Network Summit I (Anika Horn) have been attending Startup Champions Network (SCN)...

What the Ecosystem team has been up to Have you ever felt like you were in the right place at the right time? Have you run into someone...

What the Ecosystem team has been up to Snow days may have made for a slower start to the year than we had wished but it didn’t stop our...

Reviewing two years of the Community Navigator Pilot Program From December 2021 to November 2023, a consortium of six entrepreneurial...

What the Ecosystem team has been up to For the month of November Anika and Nick were busy gathering entrepreneurs and attending...

The Shenandoah Valley is not short of networking events for business owners. Thanks to a robust network of Chambers of Commerce and...

The value of convening entrepreneurs The second annual Shenandoah Valley Entrepreneurship Summit was a dynamic gathering of business...

What the Ecosystem team has been up to Now that summer is over our Ecosystem team - Nick and Anika - have been zipping across the Valley...

As summer came to a close, the Ecosystem team continued their conversations around access to capital in the Shenandoah Valley and caught...

Amidst the warmth of July, our Ecosystem Team remained relentless in their pursuit of finding funding avenues for entrepreneurs, while...

Throughout June, the SCCF ecosystem builders connected with the Shenandoah Valley entrepreneurial ecosystem in different ways: SCCF...

In May, here’s what our Ecosystem Team got up to: 9 meetings with ecosystem accomplices 10 conversations with entrepreneurs 2 trainings...

During the month of April, the Ecosystem Team toured the Valley to find out what’s happening for entrepreneurs in some of the Valley’s...

Over the course of March 2023, the Ecosystem team was out and about: We like to keep our ear to the ground so we know at all times what...

When COVID-19 broke out in March 2020, small businesses struggled to remain open during lockdowns and the subsequent economic standstill....

“In order for there to be a great America, there must be a great Black America. In order for there to be a great Black America, we need...