Wyoming Community Navigator Program

The Community Navigator Program mobilizes and leverages the Wyoming entrepreneurial support network to reduce barriers all small businesses, including those owned by groups such as veterans, women, and those from rural communities and communities of color often face in accessing capital and business assistance. The Wyoming Community Navigator Program uses a hub and spoke model to pursue its goals, where the Wyoming Small Business Development Center acts as the central hub, coordinating efforts of the spokes, to target outreach and services to business communities in need throughout the state. The community navigator spokes include the Wyoming Library 2 Business program, The Local Crowd, University of Wyoming Extension, Wind River Development Fund, Wyoming Smart Capital Network, and the Wyoming Women's Business Center. Through their collective efforts, the hub and spokes provide training, mentorship, access to capital, and access to other resources to help business owners build resiliency, and ultimately be the driving force behind Wyoming’s economic recovery.