Success Stories

El Pájaro Community Development Corporation promotes micro-enterprise and small business development by supporting low-income and minority entrepreneurs in Santa Cruz, San Benito and Monterey Counties.  We create economic opportunities for the low-income and minority community by providing bi-lingual, bi-cultural business education and training, and professional consulting and technical assistance.  

To learn more about the individual business owners that the El Pájaro CDC has helped click on the following links:
Plaza Vigil Incubator Success Stories
Incubator Without Walls Succcess Stories

Recent Successes:

• During fiscal year 2006-2007 we provided 1,828 hours of business education and training, and consulting and technical assistance to current and prospective business owners, exceeding our own goals for the year.
• We successfully kept the occupancy rate of the Plaza Vigil Incubator at 100%.  
• We successfully assisted 8 small business owners in preparing loan applications and obtaining loans to a total amount of $355K, ranging from $5-$100K loans.
• We successfully assisted 130 CalWORKs participants in workshops or with consulting and technical assistance through the CalWORKs Microenterprise Assistance Program.
• We continued to provide technical assistance and business training to the Watsonville Childcare Providers Association through the Childcare Ventures Project