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

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

With ever-changing trends and AI technology coming onto the scene, it’s increasingly more difficult for business owners to learn...

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

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

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

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...

This past summer, SCCF partnered with the NAACP and People Inc. to facilitate our Business Bootcamp entrepreneurship program for Black...

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

Introducing SCCF’s newest program: Capacitor. The Capacitor Incubator Program is a hybrid incubation model for entrepreneurs with...

In the entrepreneur world, you hear a lot of buzzwords thrown around. Words like "scalable, high-growth, venture capital, accelerator,...

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...

Sometimes the best partnerships come from completely random interactions. Last fall, after registering for SCCF’s Business Bootcamp, one...

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

Happy PRIDE Month! In June of 1969, New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay club in Greenwich Village, NYC. The brutal raid...

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...

“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...