Local Resources
Healthy local businesses are essential to a healthy community. The first button has links to resources to help your business be more successful. The second button helps you be visible to your local community. And finally, the third button has links that you can use to support other local businesses.
Why Buy Locally? Research shows that:
- For every $100 spent in local, independent stores, $68 returns to the community through taxes, payroll, and other expenditures.
- If you spend the same in national stores, $43 stays locally.
- If you spend the same on the Internet, $0 stays locally.
Support local businesses!
- Chamber
- Small Business Development Center
- Other Business Assistance
- Business Sites & Incentives
- Business License
- Food and Restaurant Information
- Local Library
- Find Employees: Local One-Stop Career Center
- Local Business Training
- Sell to Local Government
- Local Loan Opportunities
- Better Business Bureau
- Additional Resources
Estacada Chamber of Commerce
(503) 630-3483
http://www.estacadachamber.org/
Gresham Chamber of Commerce
(503) 665-1131
http://www.greshamchamber.org/
Lake Oswego Chamber of Commerce
(503) 636-3634
http://www.lake-oswego.com
Molalla Area Chamber of Commerce
(503) 829-6941
http://www.molallachamber.com
Oregon City Chamber of Commerce
(503) 656-1619
http://www.oregoncity.org
Small Business Development Centers are part of a national network of organizations dedicated to helping people start and expand their business. Funded by the SBA and some local cities, SBDCs provide free one-on-one counseling and low cost workshops.
Your local SBDC is:
Business Development Center at Clackamas Community College
Milwaukie
503-594-0738
https://clients.bizcenter.org/center.aspx?center=2040&subloc=0
- Clackamas Co. Check Enforcement Program
- Clackamas Co. recycling requirements for business
- Clackamas County Veterans Service Office
- Consider hiring a student: Cooperative Work Experience
- EDGE: one-stop employer assistance
- Free energy audits and mini grants to Main Street businesses
- Hispanic Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce
- Lake Grove Business Association
- Located in Sandy? Add your business to Welcome Packet
- Located in downtown Milwaukie? Façade Improvement Program
- Metro Small Business Hazardous Waste Program
- Northwest High Performance Enterprise Consortium
- Oregon Small Business Fair
- Oregon Technology Business Center in Beaverton
- PCC CLIMB International Trade Small Business Management program
- Social innovator? PSU Social Innovation Incubator
- Business license for Wilsonville
- Home occupation permit for Clackamas County
- Regional contractor's business license
- Business registration for Milwaukie
- Transit self-employment tax
- Business license for Oregon City
- Business license for West Linn
- Lake Oswego Business License
- Business license for Happy Valley
- Customer service, business and leadership training through Clackamas Community College
- Customized training programs through Clackamas Community College
- Skills training for manufacturing and the trades from PCC CLIMB center
- Employer Workforce Training Funds
- PCC Culinary Assistant Training Program
- Business training from Mercy Corps NW
- Short-term training for entry-level manufacturing from PCC
- Executive training from Portland State's Center for Retail Leadership
- Getting your Recipe to Market training program
- Operating your Small Business workshops at PCC
- Entrepreneur Development Training at PCC CLIMB center
- Customer service training at PCC CLIMB center
- Leadership training at PCC CLIMB center
- Oregon Dept. of Transportation - Small Business Management Training
- Sales training at PCC CLIMB center
- Bid opportunities with Clackamas County
- Doing business with Clackamas Co. Community College
- Construction companies: Portland's Sheltered Market Program
- List your firm to do jobs for Oregon City
- Bid opportunities with Lake Oswego
- Metro minority, women and emerging small business program
- Port of Portland Small Business Development Program
- How to sell to Metro