Harborstone Credit Union Archives – Business Impact NW https://businessimpactnw.org/tag/harborstone-credit-union/ Helping small businesses grow so communities thrive Mon, 08 Sep 2025 16:28:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://businessimpactnw.org/2019/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/d4b7ba04-3994-4b8f-8a3b-858e90f07efe-150x150.png Harborstone Credit Union Archives – Business Impact NW https://businessimpactnw.org/tag/harborstone-credit-union/ 32 32 10 Years of IMPACT, Pitching https://businessimpactnw.org/10-years-of-impact-pitching/ https://businessimpactnw.org/10-years-of-impact-pitching/#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2025 16:28:15 +0000 https://businessimpactnw.org/?p=68288 IMPACT Pitch started with the idea of celebrating small businesses making an impact on their communities.  We wanted a pitch competition that a mechanic, a junk hauler, a shoe repair/cleaning, […]

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]]> https://businessimpactnw.org/10-years-of-impact-pitching/feed/ 1 Introducing our IMPACT Pitch Judges & MC! https://businessimpactnw.org/2019-impactpitch-judgesmc/ Tue, 10 Sep 2019 16:58:15 +0000 http://businessimpactnw.org/?p=23216 We are honored to have such an accomplished group of business leaders judge the live IMPACT Pitch competition this year, including the 2017 Best Established Business Winner and Founder of Repair Revolution Eli Alilson, the Founder and CEO of Molly Moon's Homemade Ice Cream, Molly Moon Neitzel, and Michael Powell, returning judge and Senior Vice President at Harborstone Credit Union! From a 40 year legacy of helping local entrepreneurs turn their dreams into realities, to founding Seattle's iconic ice cream establishment, to revolutionizing the auto repair industry, our panelists have an immense range of expertise and a serious dedication to making their communities better through business.

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]]> What IMPACT Pitch means to Harborstone Credit Union https://businessimpactnw.org/mark-harborstone/ Mon, 19 Aug 2019 16:00:48 +0000 http://businessimpactnw.org/?p=22940 Mark Minickiello, the VP of Community Development at Harborstone Credit Union, has a long history of advocating for small businesses. Through his role at Harborstone, the presenting partner of our upcoming IMPACT Pitch competition, he leads financial empowerment efforts and is dedicated to community development and small business education. Because of Harborstone's support of the competition, we are able to award $30,000 in cash prizes to small businesses each year. Business Impact NW sat down with Mark to discover why Harborstone loves small businesses and what the IMPACT Pitch competition means to the credit union.

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]]> WSDOT partners with Business Impact NW to help diverse firms get loans https://businessimpactnw.org/wsdot-partners-with-business-impact-nw-to-help-diverse-firms-get-loans/ Wed, 06 Mar 2019 21:05:29 +0000 http://businessimpactnw.org/?p=20165 Monday, March 4, 2019 – 13:27 OLYMPIA – A unique partnership between the Washington State Department of Transportation, Sound Transit and Washington state-based credit unions will help underserved businesses participating […]

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]]> Introducing our IMPACT Pitch Judges and MC! https://businessimpactnw.org/introducing-our-impact-pitch-judges-and-mc/ Thu, 27 Sep 2018 23:15:36 +0000 http://businessimpactnw.org/?p=17315 We are honored to have such an accomplished group of business leaders judge the IMPACT Pitch Live Competition this year, including winner of last year’s Best Startup Business, Coté Soerens, […]

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