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Business Development Center

Business Development Center (BDC)

The HCCDC Business Development Center has been open since January 2003. There have been various businesses over the first five years. The commercial development services have been expanded to offer space in the orignial center and through out the office retail space of Village Place which is located in Winnebago.

  • Primary Components
  • Goals
  • Strategies
  • Criteria
  • Objectives
  1. Lease business incubator spaces to new business start-ups.
  2. Establish, maintain, and increase revolving loan fund pools.
  3. Conduct business/technology training workshops and courses.
  4. Provide technical assistance and expertise.
  5. Establish coordination of a local small business association.
  • Decrease unemployment
  • Increase median household incomes
  • Increase goods and services available locally
  • Increase clients’ ability to access business opportunity
  • Empower Native Americans to participate in the growing economy
  • Improving the overall economic situation in the county and increase available locally.
  • Commercial lending
  • Development of the Ho-Chunk Village subdivision
  • Business attraction
  • For-profit entity - Woodland Trails Tactics
  • Create, fund and maintain loan funds - Revolving, Internediate, Microloan and Micro Microloan Assist potential new business owners.
  • Construct new commercial buildings
  • Determine types of businesses needed, seek out opportunities, and attract them to open in Winnebago
  • Develop business attraction packages and work with potential new businesses.
  • Become self sustaining and provide funding back to HCCDC for administrative costs.
  • Work with artist entrepreneurs

Criteria for the program includes:

Maintain an "open-door," public access policy in order to remain accessible to needs of the community, the Tribe, and business owners and managers. One-on-one assistance can be scheduled at any time during regular business hours and by special appointment.

Serve as a resource for micro-business owners to access information about local and national training opportunities, memberships in professional organizations, and network with other micro-business owners.

Encourage and assist new small business owners to form a local Small Business Association that would allow area businesses to identify and address problems and needs at the local level that impact or may impact the success of their business.

  • Programs shall identify and plan for projects at least one year in advance so that adequate funding can be identified and applied for so that projects will be fully funded prior to implementation.
  • HCCDC programs and projects shall be fully funded prior to beginning of work.  At no time will HCCDC or any department, program, or project thereof begin project work without 100% of required funding needs being in-hand.
  • HCCDC programs shall work to remain on schedule and within budget with all activities and workplans in order to achieve their projected outcomes
  • Conduct Commercial programs in compliance with Commercial Program Guidelines.