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Blissen and SF Tech Council

• Training: Kickstart Your Business @50+
• Languages: English
• Focus areas:
  • Older entrepreneurs (age 50+)
  • Need to be a San Francisco resident or business registered in San Francisco
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Calle 24

• Training: Business Plan Creation
• Language: English, Spanish
• Focus areas: 
  • Businesses in the Latino Cultural District
  • Owned by people of color
  • Businesses owned by women
  • Street vendors who speak English or Spanish
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Children’s Council of SF

• Training: The Family Child Care (FCC) Fundamentals Series
• Language: English, Spanish, Cantonese
• Focus areas:
  • Family child care businesses in San Francisco
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Clecha

• Training: One-on-One Business Training
• Languages: English, Spanish
• Focus areas:
  • BIPOC
  • Immigrants
  • Low-to-moderate income business owners
  • Open to all business industries in San Francisco
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En2Action

• Trainings:
  • Sell Black: Grow Your Online Presence
  • Ujamaa Kitchen
• Languages: English
• Focus areas: 
  • Sell Black
    • Low-income
    • African-American
    • City-wide
    • Entrepreneurs looking to launch an ecommerce website. 
  • Ujamaa Kitchen: 
    • Low-income
    • African-American
    • City-wide
    • Entrepreneurs looking to launch their food business.
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  • Sell Black: Grow Your Online Presence
  • Ujamaa Kitchen

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Excelsior Action Group

• Training: One-on-one business consulting
• Languages: English, Spanish, Chinese
• Focus areas:
  • Small businesses and residents in District 11 that:
    • Have a brick and mortar location
    • Are looking to move into a brick and mortar location
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Kultivate Labs

• Training: SOMA Accelerator
• Languages: English, Tagalog
• Focus areas:
  • Businesses located in SOMA or business owners living in SOMA (zip codes 94103, 94105, and 94107).
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La Cocina

• Training: Business Incubator Program
• Languages: English, Spanish
• Focus areas:
  • Food business incubation
  • Low-income entrepreneurs
  • Women
  • People of color
  • Immigrants
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Main Street Launch

• Training: Entrepreneur in Residence Program
• Languages: English
• Focus areas: Businesses who have already completed the Entrepreneurship in Residence Program on or after July 1, 2022
• This program is no longer being offered, but those who already completed it are eligible for the OEWD Business Training Grant.

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Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA)

• Trainings: 
  • Business Planning Training
  • Business Expansion Training
  • Digital Solutions for Business Training
• Languages: English, Spanish
• Focus areas:
  • Women
  • Immigrants
  • Latinos
  • Spanish and English language workshops
  • One-on-one consultations
  • Disadvantaged San Francisco entrepreneurs
  • Access to capital for start-up
  • Technical help
  • Equitable financing
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New Community Leadership Foundation (NCLF)

• Trainings:
  • General Business Support
  • Business Plan Development
  • Small Business Budget Development
  • Marketing Planning and Development
  • Business Feasibility Assessment
  • Business Structure Formation
  • Fundraising and Grant Support
  • Referrals to Training Partners (Legal, lease negotiation and taxes)
• Languages: English
• Focus areas:
  • Custom one-on-one training sessions
  • Entrepreneurs from communities with the greatest economic challenges, including Black-owned businesses
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Renaissance Center (Women’s Business Center)

• Not currently accepting new clients for Business Training Grant classes

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Renaissance Center (Bayview)

• Not currently accepting new clients for Business Training Grant classes

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SF Black Wallstreet

• Training: Black Millionaire Development Program
• Languages: English
• Focus areas: 
  • Black entrepreneurs based in San Francisco (not industry specific)
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SF LGBT Center

• Training: 
  • New Entrepreneur Training Program
  • One-on-one business consulting
• Languages: English
• Focus areas:
  • Any entrepreneur can apply but newer businesses are prioritized (less than 3 years)
  • Businesses in all industries
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Self-Help for the Elderly

• Training: Business Training
• Languages: English, Mandarin, Cantonese
• Focus areas:
  • Asian and Pacific Islander community in San Francisco
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SF Housing Development Corporation (SFHDC)

• Trainings: 
  • Minding My Black-Owned Business
  • Accelerated Business Planning Program
• Languages: English
• Focus areas:
  • African American and minority-owned businesses
  • Businesses in the Fillmore neighborhood prioritized (all San Francisco businesses can apply)
  • Specializes in retail and culinary businesses (businesses in all industries can apply)
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Wu Yee Children’s Services

• Trainings:
  • Family Child Care Business Series (Chinese and Spanish)
  • Contracts & Policies (Chinese)
  • Money Management/Retirement/Budgeting (Chinese)
  • Marketing Strategies (Chinese)
  • Legal and Insurance Issues (Chinese)
  • Supervision at Child Care Facility (Chinese)
  • Emotional Literacy (Chinese)
  • Preventive Health and Safety (Chinese)
  • IRS Taxes Workshops (Chinese, English, Spanish)
  • Pediatric CPR/First Aid:  (Chinese, English, Spanish)
• Languages: English, Chinese (Cantonese/Mandarin), Spanish
• Focus areas:
  • Trainings are only available to family child care providers
• Sign up

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