We offer powerful resources to entrepreneurs.


We provide business programs and resources through microloans, matched business grants, and small business classes taught by business professionals. We also support entrepreneurs with one-on-one business counseling. Additionally, our prison reentry and refugee farming offer innovative solutions for underserved communities.

Mercy Corps Northwest is also the only SBA Women’s Business Center (WBC) in Oregon, providing funding, matched savings, and other resources to help female entrepreneurs become self-sufficient.


Be one of the small business entrepreneurs to benefit from our microloans    Our matching grant program encourages savings and empowers small business entrepreneurs with assets.    Our six-week business basics course teaches you marketing, finance, and other fundamentals of starting a small business, and students can dig deeper with our robust weekly seminar program.

Mercy Corps Northwest Clients can receive free one on one counseling on their business plan    Inmate reentry programs reduce recidivism, save taxpayers money, and make the world a safer place.    We provide land, supplies and training to beginning and refugee farmers and help them to bring their produce to market.