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February, 2023
The Workforce Alliance of the North Bay (WANB) spans California’s Lake, Marin, Mendocino, and Napa counties. All counties offered micro-business COVID-19 Relief Grants through the local small business development centers (SBDCs) and economic development organizations. The grant provided $2,500 to eligible businesses regardless of the size of the office.
The challenge was to quickly narrow down a target audience for a competitive COVID-19 micro-grant program outreach based on the rigorous eligibility requirements for micro-businesses.
WANB worked closely with all County SBDCs to assist in identifying candidates for outreach and cross-promoting the program through social media and E-blast with flyers from various County organizations.
Read more about their challenges, the grant program, and early outcomes.
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EconoVue™ is your window to business and workforce insight. The Urban Explorer, Inc. is the company behind the insight.
Founded in Silicon Valley in 1999, and now based in Arlington, VA, The Urban Explorer, Inc. is a woman-owned small business with a single mission: to help our clients visualize data and gain actionable insight into the past, present and future of their local and regional economies and workforce.
Originally founded as a boutique consulting firm designing interactive GIS tools for economic development, land use planning and urban design, we heard a common theme from our customers: “Help us analyze today and help us predict tomorrow.” We found ourselves replicating the same steps of geospatial economic analysis studies, so rather than reinvent the wheel every time, we decided to invent it just once and automate the process via a single platform, and EconoVue™ was born.
The millions of businesses that comprise the U.S. economy and workforce are constantly in motion. Our agile approach to solution design is highly collaborative with the “end-user”, constantly evolving to meet the growing needs and creativity of our clients as they try to extract insight from data chaos.
Working with our data partners, public sources and our great collaborative clients, we continue to expand EconoVue™ to meet new needs, including Economic Development, Transportation and Custom Analysis. Our design philosophy is to produce innovative, actionable data insight tools, in a modular application platform that is iterative and easily adaptive to meet the ever-changing information needs of our clients.
