Small Business Opportunities

In this Issue:


Digital Marketing Clinic - Technical SEO Tips to Grow Your Rankings & Business


  • Wednesday, May 28, 6:00 pm - 8:00pm On Zoom
  • Featuring Presenter: Beth Guide
  • Open Access - Register Now!


SBA Lender Matchmaking Event:


  • Wednesday, May 21, 8:30am - 12:00pm
  • HCC Alief Hayes Campus, 2811 Hayes Road, Main Building, 3rd Floor, Room #319/320 - Houston, TX 77082


Verizon Innovative Learning - Summer STEM Enrichment Program 2025:


  • The program takes place over the course of two 3-week sessions. June 9, 2025-June 27, 2025, or July 7, 2025-July 25, 2025.
  • Houston Community College - Eastside Campus.

Monthly Digital Marketing Clinic

Technical SEO Tips to Grow

Your Rankings and Business

More about this month's special topic: Learn quick tips and wins about Technical SEO that can rapidly improve your website rankings and grow your revenues!


Our Format: Open Discussion – Ask questions of our experts relating to your business about today's special topic or these other Clinic Topics: 


  • Social Media 
  • Web Design  
  • Videos  
  • Local Search Engine Optimization 
  • Convertible Key Words – How to Make Sales 
  • Analytics & Conversion Management


Join Beth Guide and Sandra Louvier with the Glenda & David Regenbaum Center for Entrepreneurship at Houston Community College Northwest and SCORE for our Monthly Digital Marketing Clinics, running now for over four years and building a loyal following of entrepreneurs seeking to continuously improve their digital marketing effectiveness.


Click on this link to register for the Digital Marketing Clinic

SBA Lender Matchmaking Event

Pursue Funding to Start/Grow YOUR Business

Lending institutions that lend in the Houston District including traditional lenders, credit unions, microlenders, and certified minority development institutions will be on hand to meet with existing and start-up business owners to discuss funding for small businesses.


Small business owners and entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to pitch financing needs to multiple lenders in scheduled, one-on-one 15-minute sessions!** Also, meet SBA Houston District Office representatives and engage with SBA's Resource Partner network who provide free one-on-one business advising.


**NOTE: Registration begins at 8:30am CT, appointments are made 1st come 1st serve basis. One-on-one sessions begin at 9:00am CT and conclude at 12:00pm CT.


When: Wednesday, May 21, 2025 - 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Where: Houston Community College, Northwest, 2811 Hayes Road- Room #A319/320 (3rd floor) - Houston, TX 77082

Contact: SBA Houston District Office, 

Email: Houston@sba.gov, Phone: 713-773-650


Click this link for more information and to register for the

SBA Lender Matchmaking event

Verizon Innovative Learning

Summer STEM Enrichment Program 2025

Free summer STEM enrichment program for 6th - 8th graders


Every chiId deserves a chance to shape the world. But they don't always have the tools to do it. 


That's why we've launched the Verizon Innovative Learning STEM Achievers program - an immersive program developed to ignite STEM passions through design thinking, 30 printing, augmented reality and social entrepreneurship.


Program details:


  • The program will take place in person. Registrants will be notified by the Program Director regarding acceptance and details of the program.
  • Lunch will be provided.
  • Inclusive of all genders.
  • Free to all students from local middle schools.


Time:

The program takes place over the course of two 3-week sessions.

June 9, 2025-June 27, 2025, or July 7, 2025-July 25, 2025. 


Location:

Houston Community College - Eastside Campus

6815 Rustic Street Houston, Texas 77087 


For more information, please contact - Susie R. Molina, susie.molina@hccs.edu, 713-718-2263


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Summer STEM Enrichment Program 2025

About the Glenda & David Regenbaum Center for Entrepreneurship

HCC Northwest


OUR MISSION: To help entrepreneurs start and grow their businesses.

We do this by offering workshops, seminars, summits, classes and competitive training and advising, while also providing practical knowledge, resources and connections. We are also known for three Signature Programs: the Annual HCC Business Plan Competition, now in its 17th year; the Small Business Success Series by by HCC©; and the HCC Mattress Mack School of Selling©


Our Center for Entrepreneurship is part of the Houston Community College Office of Entrepreneurial Initiatives. The Office of Entrepreneurial Initiatives was established to build and sustain the Houston business community through effective and relevant educational initiatives to help businesses grow in revenue, personnel and business opportunities. The Office of Entrepreneurial Initiatives leads and coordinates all business and entrepreneurial initiatives by providing system-wide support, and leadership to fulfill HCC’s Strategic Agenda to “Cultivate and Entrepreneurial Culture Across the Institution.”


The HCC Office of Entrepreneurial Initiatives has been honored with a number of prestigious awards. For more on awards in recent years; https://conta.cc/3wgcmxc


On behalf of all of our entrepreneurial programs and staff, we thank all of the entrepreneurs, partners, sponsors, volunteers, students, and HCC faculty and staff who have contributed to our efforts! Without your support and dedication to our programs, these awards wouldn't have been possible!

Contact our center at c4e@hccs.edu or 713-718-6650