The Local Mogul Blog.

Indigenous Peoples' Day is a good occasion to sit with numbers that don't get enough attention the rest of the year: how many Native-owned businesses exist, how much they contribute, and how much harder they have to work to get the same capital.

Minority-owned business owners in the Tacoma and Seattle area are not stalling for lack of effort. Across the applications King's Dream collected for three local business programs, the biggest funding barrier owners named was credit, followed by not knowing where to apply and not having a business plan. None of those is a failure of the business. They are gaps in access, and most of them can be closed. Who applied, and where they were starting from 142 owners applied to work