Helping Entrepreneurs Grow Their Ventures

We provide consulting and training to entrepreneurs and those who support them in the areas of marketing, strategy, capital, and leadership.

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We believe strong small businesses make strong local economies. We help business owners—as well as agencies and foundations who support business owners—to:

Acquire more customers
Get the right customers and keep them coming back.
Access more capital
Move to the next level by building capacity and ensuring sustainability.
Achieve more impact
Meet your success goals and share your story.
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Our Services

We want to partner with you to support your Entrepreneurial Ecosystem. Together we have decades of experience in working with low-income, minority, women and vetran run small businesses.  We’ve designed and implemented various educational and public sector programs for entrepreneurs. The following services are designed to support intermediaries but are also available to small businesses and nonprofit agencies.

We provide entrepreneurship program development for your mission agency. Paul Wright has 20 years experience in the community development finance industry. He has experience in program design, evaluation and team development. Our team also consists of professional instructional designers and project managers on our team.

Some of our projects include:

  • Kauffman Foundation
    We developed a training and development program for their Kauffman FastTrac program and piloted an online "train-the-trainers" program with peer-to-peer exchange and mentoring for program directors. With our help, Kauffman was able to move from a pilot to full program rollout in just 18 months.
  • Communities of Healing
    This project, funded by a federal Appalachian Regional Commission grant, seeks to address the opiod crisis by creating a "social impact hub" that strengthens the recovery-to-work ecosystem in southern West Virginia. We offer cohort-based training for food-based businesses and entrepreneurs seeking to invest in the social mission of recovery. We are one of five organizations that are part of this 3-year grant.

Maria Wright has worked for several start-ups and small businesses where she learned the ins and outs of building websites. She realized early on that you can build a pretty website, but it can be completely ineffective. Since then, she has become a student of brand development and marketing that gets results.

One of our contracts is with the Mountain Association, a mission lender who supports small businesses in Appalachian Kentucky. Combined with Paul’s coaching services, we have helped dozens of their loan clients clarify their target market, develop a brand, and create website traffic and sales.

Examples of her services include:

  • Websites in Wordpress and Webflow platforms that focus on solving your clients’ problems
  • Websites for rental properties with integrated reservation calendar technology
  • Personal brands for service-based entrepreneurs
  • User Experience (UX) and ADA Compliance for Websites
  • Multilingual websites

We directly support entrepreneurs through our online courses and coaching platforms. Paul Wright is an Accredited Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation and has provided hundreds of hours of professional coaching and mentoring to leaders nationwide.

Your team or members will get access to various self assessment tools and professional coaching models that will help them improve their communications, leverage their strengths and achieve strategic goals or towards professional growth.

Paul specializes in social entrepreneurship and has a series called the Social Enterprise Labs. These courses may be bundled and delivered to an audience that you support.

Check out www.wvscourses.com for a listing of our latest self directed and live cohort courses.

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What Our Clients Say

Paul's years of experience in consulting and coaching, along with his sensitive and discerning heart, equip him to serve clients well. You will find Paul to be a valuable resource. He is committed to excellence and servanthood through his work.

Edward Hammett
Master Certified Coach and Coach Trainer
President of Transforming Solutions

Paul is a global thinker and is organized in managing people and community finance programs. He has lots of energy, a creative spirit and sees the possibilities in all situations. Paul is a great person with tremendous personal integrity.

Geoffrey Willett
retired mission lender executive

We needed an experienced community development professional for a rural health communications project. I’m glad we found Wright Venture Services. They designed a public awareness campaign and a customized training curriculum that helped us perform on a federal grant. We appreciate their cultural sensitivity to help people and communities thrive in Appalachia.

Lorena G Gonzalez, PhD
Urban Strategies

The Wrights helped us launch a new earned-income program within our non-profit. Maria designed the the new website and set up an online project management systems. Paul helped me recruit and on-board qualified team members and mentor our new Coordinator. We now have a platform to support our member clinics across the country using new tools and systems.

Steve Noblett
CEO of Christian Community Health Fellowship (CCHF)

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