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E komo mai! Welcome to the Hawaii Remote Work Project.
Find resources and opportunities to work remotely from Hawaii, or to hire workers in Hawaii to work remotely for your national or global business.
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) continues to support Hawaii’s small businesses as they recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Please see the details on their various relief options.
You can also find information about local services offered by the SBA Hawaii District Office here.
Expand Your Sales with HiSTEP
Funded in part through a Grant with the U.S. SBA, HiSTEP assists Hawaii small businesses with their export development. The goal is to increase the number of small businesses that want to export as well as the value of exports for those small businesses that currently export.
Hawaii Defense Economy
Military-related spending in Hawaii is second only to tourism and contributes to thousands of jobs. DBEDT is committed to understanding the importance of DoD spending and to fostering resiliency efforts should DoD spending change.
Community Based Economic Development (CBED)
CBED offers loans to eligible small businesses that support economic development in their communities. Also grants available to non-profits for technical assistance in applying for federal grants!
News
Inner City Capital Connections (ICCC) is a tuition-free program designed to help small business owners.
COMING VIRTUALLY TO HAWAI'I ON OCTOBER 12TH AND 14TH!
Thanks to the support of Kaiser Permanente, the ICCC program will take place virtually in Hawai'i over two half-days on the morning of Tuesday, October 12th from 8:00 AM - 12 Noon Hawaii Time and the morning of Thursday, October 14th from 8:00 AM -12:30 PM Hawaii Time. Learn more about the ICCC Hawai'i Program here.
Read More Inner City Capital Connections Now Recruiting for 2021-2022 Hawaii Program
The Office of Economic Revitalization of the City and County of Honolulu is offering the following two webinars to help businesses with safety systems to manage COVID-19: Webinar: Keeping Your Workplace Safe with Wellness Tracker The ALTRES Foundation has created Wellness Tracker to reduce and prevent potential COVID-19 exposures in the workplace, while safely helping […]
Read More OER Webinars on Managing Workplace Safety to Mitigate COVID-19
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman announced major enhancements to the COVID Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program, a federal disaster relief loan designed to better serve and support our small business communities still reeling from the pandemic, especially hard-hit sectors such as restaurants, gyms, and hotels. The SBA is ready to receive new applications immediately from small businesses looking to take advantage of these new policy changes.
Read More COVID EIDL Program Enhanced to Aid Small Businesses Challenged by Delta Variant
The State of Hawaiʻi has partnered with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in a Hawaiʻi Silver Jackets Interagency Collaboration Team under the State’s Hawaiʻi Ocean Resources Management Plan (ORMP).
Read More Hawaiʻi Joins Silver Jackets Program
SUCCESS STORIES
Success stories about businesses that have benefited from BDSD programs.