Classes & Events
Guiding towards financial stability and self-reliance
Nimiipuu Fund's financial education classes serve as empowering platforms, guiding individuals and communities toward financial stability and self-reliance.
Rooted in cultural wisdom and tailored to specific Native American contexts, these classes provide essential knowledge on budgeting, saving, investing, and managing credit. They emphasize traditional values of communal support, responsible stewardship, and long-term planning, aligning with the holistic approach to wealth often valued in Native cultures. By imparting practical financial skills within the cultural framework, these classes not only enhance individual financial well-being but also strengthen the economic resilience of Native American communities, fostering a future of prosperity and self-determination.
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Trademark Basics Bootcamp Virtual Workshop Series
This free USPTO event series provides a comprehensive overview of the process for federal trademark registration and maintaining a federal trademark. If you’re a small business owner or entrepreneur seeking to protect your brand and product identities, Trademark Basics Boot Camp is for you. Trademark Basics Boot Camp is offered regularly throughout the year. During…
2 events,
Homebuyer Education
Discover the intricacies and advantages of home ownership, along with the associated responsibilities and maintenance considerations. This comprehensive guide covers a range of topics, including the significance of budgeting and savings, strategies for improving credit, calculating affordability, navigating tribal land issues, exploring program and loan options, understanding the steps involved in the loan and construction…
2 events,
Building a Marketing Strategy for Your Small Farm
The Building a Marketing Strategy for Your Small Farm workshop series is designed to help small farmers, ranchers, and food business owners develop a personalized marketing strategy, amplify your message, and connect with customers to grow your business. Each week of this workshop series will focus on key digital marketing strategies for messaging, websites, social…
5 events,
Credit Reports and Scores
Credit Reports and Scores
From employment possibilities to the rates we pay for insurance, our credit has direct impacts on our financial health. Attend this course to gain skills in managing, protecting, building, and even rebuilding credit. Learn what information credit bureaus use to calculate your credit score and gain the knowledge you need for a secure financial future.…
Redesign Your Website
Redesign Your Website
When did you last look at your business’s website? Or perhaps you are still trying to develop one? Websites remain an incredibly popular destination for site traffic. When you add up all of the functions and ways they can work for and represent your business, nothing works harder online than a professional website. It can…
Business Risk Management: LLC under Tribal Law
Business Risk Management: LLC under Tribal Law
Come join us for the Business Risk Management + LLC under Tribal Law for Small Businesses Webinar in partnership with the Small Business Legal Clinic. Shanna has served several tribal governments while working at a firm in Washington, D.C., including advising tribes on economic development matters such as trademarks for tribal enterprises, contracts that protected…
2 events,
Marketing Plan 101: Create Your Roadmap To Success
Marketing Plan 101: Create Your Roadmap To Success
Are you overwhelmed by all the choices for your marketing your business in the new year? Not sure where your time is best spent? Are you following what everyone else is doing and hope it works for you too? A well-executed marketing plan will help you: Define your business with SWOT Analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities…
2 events,
Tax Savings Strategies for Small Businesses
Tax Savings Strategies for Small Businesses
This workshop focuses on Federal tax-saving strategies that work best for small businesses. It covers topics such as electing S-Corporation status with the IRS, maximizing the deduction for business use of the home, demonstrating two ways to compute the deduction for the business use of a personal vehicle, providing examples of seven different retirement plans,…
2 events,
Strategies to Identify and Reach Your Target Customers
Strategies to Identify and Reach Your Target Customers
In this Marketing workshop, we start by helping you identify your target market. These are your best potential customers and knowing them helps you create a better product or service. It also makes all your promotional efforts more focused and effective. We show you how to finalize the design of your product or service and make sure…
2 events,
Debt Repayment Options & Debt Collections
Debt Repayment Options & Debt Collections
Looking for ways to manage finances or consolidate your debts? Attend this class where we will look at ways for getting out of debt. We explore aspects of the personal budget and focus on using a spending plan to pay down debts in a systematic manner. We also explore the pros and cons of other…
3 events,
Loan Programs: Funding for Working Capital
Loan Programs: Funding for Working Capital
Join staff from the SBA Seattle District office to learn how the SBA 7(a) Loan Guaranty Program can be used to meet your company's working capital needs. During this free webinar we will discuss: Allowable uses of working capital funds The various loan programs available for working capital The loan structuring process for each program…
Cultivating a Business Mindset for Success
Cultivating a Business Mindset for Success
In today's competitive business landscape, a successful entrepreneur requires more than just technical expertise and a keen sense of market trends. They also need a resilient mindset that can help them weather the storms of uncertainty, overcome obstacles, and stay motivated during ups and downs. This interactive and inspiring workshop, "Cultivating a Business Mindset for…
2 events,
Financial Basics for New Small Businesses
Financial Basics for New Small Businesses
This workshop is designed to give you, the business owner, the financial skills and know-how needed to perform key tasks like to determine how to accurately compute the amount of funding you’ll need to start your business. You will also learn how to project your future financial results realistically including: · Projecting sales for a new business…
4 events,
Creating a Quick Business Plan in Three Hours
Creating a Quick Business Plan in Three Hours
Join us and other entrepreneurs in this hands-on workshop where you will write your “Unique Value Statement” for your new product or service. This is a concise description of your product or service and explain the unique value your product or service provides to your customers. As part of the workshop, participants will receive real-time…
Redlining the Reservation
Redlining the Reservation
Tribal areas have been cut out of the financial system. What can be done about it? Citizens on tribal lands live starkly different lives from Americans living in other areas, with limited quality-of-life necessities like electricity, fresh water, sanitation and heating and cooling systems for housing. Learn how tribal areas have been cut out of…
Choosing Financial Services & Products
Choosing Financial Services & Products
This course helps you understand the different kinds of financial products and services available, how they might meet your needs, and how you can make the most of them. We also discuss rights and responsibilities when dealing with certain types of financial products and services. • Finding financial products and services. • Comparing financial service…
3 events,
Contracting: Joint Ventures Program
Contracting: Joint Ventures Program
Joint ventures allow certain businesses to compete together for government contracts reserved for small businesses. Joint venture benefits to participants include: Collective representation of past performance Shared costs and resources Leveraging the other partner’s experience and market share A mentor and its protégé can joint venture as a small business for any small business contract,…
Linkedin Marketing Essentials
Linkedin Marketing Essentials
As one of the most important B2B social media platforms, LinkedIn can help you attract more eyes on your business. The biggest advantage of LinkedIn is that it is frequented by many senior-level influencers, decision-makers, and thought leaders. If you want to grab the attention of top-level executives, then you should work on your LinkedIn…
2 events,
Tax Essentials for New and Existing Business Owners
Tax Essentials for New and Existing Business Owners
Paying taxes is inevitable. But reporting and paying the right amount of taxes timely is the goal you want to achieve to give you peace of mind and allow you to focus on more important areas, like driving your business forward. This 2.5-hour workshop will help you learn about: · Federal taxes imposed on your business. · Federal…
2 events,
Digital Storytelling while Creating a Marketing Plan with Roxanne Best
Lapwai High School Seniors can embark on a creative journey with Roxanne Best in a transformative workshop on Digital Storytelling and Marketing Planning, proudly brought to you by Nimiipuu Fund. This event, open to Lapwai High School seniors, is a unique opportunity to blend the power of storytelling with strategic marketing insights. Roxanne Best, a…
2 events,
The 4 P’s of Marketing with Roxanne Best
The 4 P’s of Marketing with Roxanne Best
Delve into the fundamentals of effective marketing with Roxanne Best in an insightful workshop on the 4 P's of Marketing, proudly brought to you by Nimiipuu Fund. This session is designed to unravel the key components—Product, Price, Place, and Promotion—critical to any successful marketing strategy. Roxanne Best, a seasoned marketing professional, will share her expertise…
3 events,
How to Borrow Funds – Rules of the Game
How to Borrow Funds – Rules of the Game
This class covers what to know and look for when borrowing money. We also review lender requirements for borrowing and how to build the case for loan approval. We provide insights into: • The requirements for borrowing, • Different types of loans. • The way in which payments and interest are calculated, and • How…
Increase Sales and Profits with Pricing and Distribution Strategies
Increase Sales and Profits with Pricing and Distribution Strategies
You’ve developed a wonderful new product or service and understand the costs but how should you price it? This workshop is part of SCORE’s Small Business Essentials series. We start by reviewing different distribution and channel strategies and help you choose the method that best gets your product or service in front of your satisfied…
2 events,
Are you ready to export?
Are you ready to export?
Join us this week for a conversation with Zara Castillo, Director of the Export Finance Assistance Center of Washington (EFACW). The EFACW was created by the Washington State legislature in 1983 to provide free export finance advice and counseling assistance to small and medium sized exporters or prospective Washington State-based exporters. The EFACW provides consultation…
2 events,
Invest in America: How to Create a Caregiving Friendly Workplace
Invest in America: How to Create a Caregiving Friendly Workplace
Please join us on Thursday, February 29th at 2:00 PM ET via Zoom for our next webinar titled, "How to Create a Caregiving Friendly Workplace" to hear from public and private sector leaders. The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) & Public Private Strategies Institute (PPSI) have created a webinar series, titled ‘Invest in America: Small…
The Key to Business Success is Authentic Leadership
The Key to Business Success is Authentic Leadership
"The Key to Business Success is Authentic Leadership" workshop is designed for entrepreneurs who want to optimize their business' potential. In this workshop, you will discover the distinction between managing and leading, and how it impacts your business success. You will learn the responsibility that comes with being an entrepreneur as a leader and how…