After completion of financial reporting, you will need to know what funding options are available! 

This workshop will include an overview of funding options for small businesses. Topics will include: 

• traditional commercial lending,
• SBA loans, non-traditional lending,
• venture capital, and
• government programs.

The workshop will also host a panel of available resource experts to assists in program explanations and answer questions to better educate the business owner on their funding path. 

Presenter: 
Heather Wright, is a Small Business Advisor/ Finance Specialist for the Small Business Development Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. She finished her undergraduate at Auburn University in Business Administration with focuses in Finance and Human Resource Management; and her Master's Degree in Business Administration from the University of North Alabama. The last eleven years, post-undergraduate; Heather has worked for many different lending institutions that provide commercial and consumer lending products, where she thrived in loan processing, sales, and management. Heather is also a successful  small business owner and her business was awarded multiple small business awards, and published in multiple publications for their knowledge in that particular market sector. Heather provides the SBDC with loan packaging knowledge to aid in capital access for small businesses, as well as, strategic business knowledge to assist in successfully building and maintaining small businesses.