• WA State Department of Community Trade and Economic Development (CTED), CTED Business Assistance Referral Helpline, 1-800-237-1233
• Clover Park Technical College Center for Business Development
• Pierce County Loan Program
• Tacoma Business Center: Website links for SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives) , SBA (Small Business Administration), Bates BMTC (Business & Management Training Center), SBDC (Small Business Development Center), OMWBE (Office of Minority & Women's Business Enterprises), and SSWBC (South Sound Women's Business Center)
• South Sound Washington Business Center offers various series of workshops on: Veterans Outreach for Training and Education, Entrepreneurships, Latino Economic Assistance Development Project, Native American Initiative, Loan Packaging, 30 Minute Think Tank, and can provide mentorship and protégé opportunities. They have a Lakewood branch located in Clover Park Technical College, Building 19, and can be reached at 253-589-4523.

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Lakewood Chamber of Commerce
The Lakewood Chamber’s 5 Core Missions are:

• Promoting the community
• Providing networking opportunities
• Representing the interests of business with government
• Political action, and creating a strong local economy

The Lakewood Chamber of Commerce is a nonprofit membership-based organization of over 400 businesses that is vitally concerned about the economic future of the Lakewood area. The Chamber represents the concerns and needs of its member businesses through market research and promotion, lobbying on the state and local level, and providing networking opportunities to sustain and encourage growth and economic development in the area. You can find them at http://lakewood-wa.com/ or 253-582-9400.

Washington Cash
A micro enterprise development organization, Washington Cash helps individuals with limited incomes in these ways:

• Business training and planning
• Loans in the Grameen Bank model of peer lending
• Individual development accounts

You can find them at http://washingtoncash.org/index.html or 206-352-1945 or 360-698-4088.