GSBA — Statewide LGBTQ+ and Allied Chamber of Commerce
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GSBA presentation describing a statewide LGBTQ+ and allied Chamber of Commerce that offers free business consulting and courses, networking events and coalitions, and a TravelOUT initiative for LGBTQ+ tourism. It states that the majority of the businesses served are located in King and Pierce County, WA. The Business Academy programs listed include technical and business workshops, an accelerator, LGBTQ+ inclusion training and a Business Fund with grants of $2,500 to small businesses in WA. A one-on-one consulting review for January to August reports 150 Businesses Served and 93 businesses in the Accelerator Program.
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“GSBA — Statewide LGBTQ+ and Allied Chamber of Commerce.”
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GSBA
What is GSBA?
• Statewide LGBTQ+ and allied Chamber of Commerce
• Business support network: we offer free business consulting and courses,
networking events, and coalitions for our community business leaders
• Support statewide LGBTQ+ tourism through our TravelOUT initiative
• Advocate the needs of our members at local and state levels through advancing
legislation and connecting with regional stakeholders on the issues
• Invest in the next generation through our Scholarship & Education Fund
• 4 year scholarships to colleges and financial aid for workforce training
programs
Community Need
• Systemic barriers keep passionate and capable
entrepreneurs of disadvantaged backgrounds from
achieving their dreams
• A lack of capital investment, reverberating impact of
generational poverty, environmental factors,
inequitable access to health care and education, and other
compounding challenges impact LGBTQ+, Black,
Indigenous, People of Color, and women-identifying
entrepreneurs the most.
What are we hearing?
From LGBTQ+ Businesses…
• LGBTQ+ owned businesses contribute $1.7T to the US economy
• LGBTQ owned firms (64%) were more likely to report that the pandemic
negatively affected their business
• LGBTQ owned businesses (85%) were more likely to report seeking emergency
assistance during the pandemic
From LGBTQ+ Workers…
• 46% say they are closeted at work
• 53% report hearing jokes about their identity, as opposed to 37% of non-LGBTQ
peers
• 31% report feeling unhappy or depressed at work; 20% looked for a different job
• 17% felt exhausted from spending time and energy hiding their sexual orientation
and 13% from gender identity
GSBA BUSINES ACADEMY
GSBA’s Business Academy programs primarily serve LGBTQ+,
Black, People of Color, and women-identifying entrepreneurs
working in Washington State.
While not all of these individuals are impoverished, folks with
these identities face disproportionate obstacles to succeeding in
business (and in their personal lives). Such barriers include, but
are not limited to, rising incidents of identity-targeted hate and
violence (US FBI, 2023) and inequitable access to education, fair
wages, health care, capital, and other basic human needs.
While the majority of businesses we serve are located in King and
Pierce County, WA, GSBA’s outreach efforts are increasingly
expanding to more rural areas of the state (and beyond).
BUSINESS ACADEMY PROGRAMS
Technical & Business
Workshops & One-On-One LGBTQ+ Inclusion Ready for
Regulatory Accelerator
Trainings Program Masterclasses Consulting Training Business Fund
• Participants
• An 8-week • Learn about a
• Trainings detailing learn from • Complementary
course variety of topics • Grants of $2,500
local labor laws trained assistance in
including to small
and standards designed to specialists about areas such as
allyship, current businesses in WA
including minim help topics directly access to credit,
climate for
wage; paid stick entrepreneurs related to loan
LGBTQ+ folks, • Focus on LGBTQ;
and staff time; and small business success preparation,
what is gender, BIPOC; women-
secure scheduling; businesses cash flow
intersectionality, owned, and rural
etc. • Access to a analysis, social
start their own and more businesses
library of past media
businesses • Access to a free
workshops for marketing, etc.
Transgender & • Provides
• Gain tools for later on-demand
• Flexible in- Non-Binary wraparound
use, including a viewing • Support for
person and Affirming support for
reference packet every part of
virtual class Employer Toolkit digital equity
with sample • Content tailored the business
• LGBTBE assistance
policies offerings to interests of lifecycle
Certification
local businesses
ONE-ON-ONE CONSULTING: 2023 REVIEW
From January to August we have seen…. 150 Businesses Served
LGBTQ+ Owned
Businesses
Black-Owned
Businesses
People of Color-
Owned Businesses
93 businesses in our Accelerator Program
18 58 14
Businesses Owned
by Returning
Veteran-Owned Entrepreneurs Women- Citizens (People NGLCC Certified OMWBE
Businesses with Disabilities Owned exiting the justice Businesses Businesses
system)
Businesses
1 2 41 2 5 5
WORKSHOPS & WEBINARS
Rapid Total Views: 1,848+
Response Most Viewed: Keeping Watch on the Pandemic (398), Police Accountability (372), PPP
Loan Forgiveness (375)
Total Views: 7,437
Keeping it
Real Most Viewed: How to do White Allyship (1,600), Embracing Anxiety (834), The
Unspoken Reality of Trans Health (733)
Civic Total Views: 4,153+
Engagement
Most Viewed: Out on the Campaign Trail (760), Consumer Data Privacy (727)
Series
Other Total Views: 273+
Workshops Most Viewed: GSBA Scholarship Application Tips & Tricks (273)
From Our Total Views: 1,698+
Partners Most Viewed: NGLCC - Economic Relief Resources for LGBT-Owned Businesses
During COVID-19 (1,698)
LGBTQ+ INCLUSION TRAINING
Purpose & Topics Process Evaluation
Goals
• Elements of • Before implementation of a
Allyship in the new module we collect
• Provide trainees with
Workplace feedback from the Conduct post-training impact studies to
skillsets, tools, and inform improvements to our facilitation
resources to grow their
• Current Climate for community, including local
LGBTQ+ Folks LGBTQ+ leaders and the and communication skills
understanding of the
barriers LGBTQ+ people • What is Gender diverse GSBA team
• Our Herstory • Prior to the date of a Feedback surveys garner responses
face in our community
Transphobia Today training, meet with from more than 75% of participants,
• Identify each trainee •
Intersectionality & organizational leadership of who answer close and open-ended
groups’ gaps in •
knowledge and meeting Where You fit potential trainees to discuss questions about the presentation’s
them where their needs • Economics behind the learning agenda and facilitation, length, use of technology,
are Inclusion goal set. behavioral impact, and overall
• Develop a lexicon for • Prepare your • Trainees are offered effectiveness
folks who are less Workplace for the samples of curriculum and
informed on topics Next Generation invited to offer feedback
• Invite participants to
• Allyship Everywhere
practice allyship through
group scenarios
Thank you!
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