Are you a Washington County resident interested in exploring self-employment? Start Up Downeast is focused on each participant’s goal achievement, personal development, financial empowerment, self-employment exploration, and job skill training. Start Up Downeast...

The Partners in Entrepreneurial Pathways – Beyond the Business Plan Workshop Series offers 18 FREE learning opportunities for rural entrepreneurs and small business owners who want to take their ideas and ventures to the next level. Machias Valley Center for...

How can Family Futures Downeast (FFD) Help You? FFD can assist you in completing your WCCC or UMM application FFD can assist you with completing your financial aid paperwork FFD provides college preparation classes and tutoring FFD provides quality early childhood...

We are thrilled to share some exciting updates with you!  The layout of Machias Valley Center for Entrepreneurship as well as program updates are just a click away! Check it out: www.machiasvalleycenter.org

Are you a Washington County, Maine business owner? With funding assistance from the Maine Community Foundation and the Maine Woods Consortium, SCEC is offering a direct assistance program to help Washington County small businesses improve their ability to use digital...

If you consider Washington County your home and plan to stay here, the Gracie Fund can help you repay your student loans. Washington County residents who have completed post-secondary education within the last five years and are building a professional and personal...

Senator Angus King congratulated SCEC on their 25 years of service to the people and businesses of Washington County, Maine.

The Machias Valley Center For Entrepreneurship, a small-business incubator and shared work environment, will be opened in the long vacant Nash building in downtown Machias. Machias Savings Bank, which had purchased the distressed landmark in 2017, is gifting the...

The Cooperative Development Institute (CDI) has received a $200,000 grant from the John T. Gorman Foundation to support the Ownership Transition Initiative, which will assist Washington County business owners in developing exit plans that will sustain their business...

Going to college is hard work. When you throw two kids and a full-time job into the mix, it’s even harder! Between cooking, cleaning, working, driving kids to soccer practice and helping them with homework, it’s hard for moms to find time to go back to school to...