Education Partners
Bridgeway Capital partners with universities, Small Business Development Centers and other businesses and organizations to provide training and more to our borrowers.
Bridgeway Capital works with many education partners to provide valuable resources to our borrowers and other small businesses. Through these partnerships, small businesses have access to hands-on training classes, mentoring sessions, entrepreneurial seminars, and more. As an incentive to attend, Bridgeway Capital often provides scholarships for these opportunities.
Click on an organization’s name below to learn more about how Bridgeway Capital works with them and what they do for small businesses.
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BrandMill offers a variety of marketing services, such as strategic marketing planning and ongoing consulting and coaching; marketing communications plan development; seminars and training workshops; and more. www.brandmill.com |
Bridgeway Capital works with BrandMill, a Pittsburgh-based marketing consulting and coaching firm, to help build strong brands and marketing strategies for our small business borrowers.| Catalyst Connection |
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Their advisors, consultants, and instructors are highly motivated experts with academic degrees and an average of 15 years of manufacturing experience. www.catalystconnection.org |
Bridgeway Capital works with Catalyst Connection, an economic development organization dedicated to helping small and mid-size manufacturers in southwestern Pennsylvania improve their competitive performance.| Callidus Group, The |
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The Callidus Group provides educational tools and mentoring to small businesses. www.thecallidusgroup.com |
Bridgeway Capital works with the Callidus Group to offer FastTrac®, a comprehensive educational program that provides business insights, leadership skills and professional networking contacts so business owners are prepared to create a new business or expand an existing enterprise.| Center for Women’s Entrepreneurship (CWE) at Chatham University |
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The mission of the CWE at Chatham University is to educate, create economic opportunities, and foster entrepreneurial thinking for women entrepreneurs, women in business, and students. http://www.chatham.edu/cwe/ |
Bridgeway Capital works with the Chatham University’s Center for Women’s Entrepreneurship (CWE) to provide partial scholarships to current and potential small business borrowers attending the FastTrac® program. We also sponsor “Listening to Your Business” — half-day sessions to introduce potential borrowers to the more comprehensive FastTrac® classes.| Small Business Development Centers |
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Small Business Development Centers provide various training and coaching services across our 15-county market area. |
Bridgeway Capital promotes a variety of Small Business Development Center classes in our newsletters and also provides partial scholarships to borrowers who attend these classes.| Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence, University of Pittsburgh |
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The Center for Women in Business offers results-driven advisory programs that support the profitable growth of established women-owned businesses. The mission of The Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence at the University of Pittsburgh is to be the innovative leader of economic renewal and growth serving enterprising people and businesses in the region. http://www.entrepreneur.pitt.edu/ |
Through the Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence (IEE), Bridgeway Capital provides partial scholarships to borrowers that participate in the Entrepreneurial Fellows Center, a 12-month class that provides relevant, immediately applicable tools to address the most critical issues facing a leader of a growing enterprise. We also work with the IEE to provide comprehensive consulting to our borrowers.| SCORE |
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SCORE, a nonprofit association dedicated to entrepreneurial education and the formation, growth and success of small businesses, provides face-to-face and e-mail business counseling to help small businesses evaluate plans, stabilize, grow, innovate and succeed. http://www.scorepittsburgh.com/ |
Bridgeway Capital provides partial scholarships for attendees to the Small Business Basics course through SCORE. Sometimes, Bridgeway Capital loan officers speak at these classes to provide information about lending and finance.| Seton Hill University’s E-Magnify |
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Seton Hill University’s E-Magnify is an innovative program for learning that offers a variety of entrepreneurial resources, educational programs, advocacy initiatives and networking opportunities to women entrepreneurs. http://www.e-magnify.com/ |
Bridgeway Capital provides partial scholarships for Seton Hill University’s E-Magnify CORE FOUR® attendees in Washington, Indiana and Allegheny counties, and we plan to expand our reach in the next couple years. The CORE FOUR® Business Planning Course is a turn-key curriculum to help educate and motivate small business owners in four key areas: success, market, cash flow, and operations planning.| YWCA |
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The YWCA empowers all women to take command of their career, health, education and community involvement effectively throughout their lives and to actively participate in a society free of discrimination. www.ywcapgh.org/ |
Bridgeway Capital provides partial and/or full scholarships to help current and potential small business owners attend the Microenterprise Symposium held each year at the YWCA. The Symposium educates and motivates women-owned small businesses to start-up or grow.