More than $635,000 in state funding is available to help support BIPOC entrepreneurs, developing veteran- and women-owned businesses and small businesses in underserved regions in three counties, including Walla Walla County.
The Washington State Department of Commerce’s Small Business Innovation Fund, or SBIF, split $32.5 million into 22 projects across the state.
The Downtown Walla Walla Foundation, which will manage how the money is distributed in the three-county region, has created a committee of four members who all have a background in either grant funding or business to judge applications as they come in.
The committee members are Kol Medina, CEO of Blue Mountain Community Foundation; Brian Hunt of Sherwood Trust; George Perez, assistant…
