What We Offer
Weaver connects people building micro-businesses to the five resources they actually need: social capital, physical infrastructure, knowledge, market access, and financial accessibility. One by one we build. Together we weave something stronger.
Consulting
Strategic support for strengthening a community's microentrepreneurship ecosystem.
Strategic support for municipalities, economic development organizations, and regional coalitions working to strengthen their local microentrepreneurship ecosystems. Engagements typically include a current-state assessment, gap analysis, strategic recommendations, and hands-on implementation support.
Workshops
Practical, hands-on sessions for owners building micro-businesses on Long Island.
Hands-on sessions covering the fundamentals — testing a business idea, pricing, managing money, and making it official. Practical, not theoretical, taught by someone who's built a business from scratch and closed it with the lessons intact. Starting Fall 2026.
Speaking & Facilitation
Talks and working sessions on what small businesses actually need to thrive.
Talks and working sessions on what small businesses actually need to thrive, grounded in lived founder experience and the systems-level thinking of an EDP-credentialed practitioner. Topics range from rethinking success beyond venture capital to building entrepreneurial infrastructure that works.
Research
Applied research building new frameworks for measuring microentrepreneurship.
Applied research challenging the standard economic development metrics — job creation, survival rates, revenue benchmarks — built for a different kind of business than most Americans actually run. New frameworks for measuring microentrepreneurship, grounded in original, real-time data.
Ecosystem Assessments
A clear picture of what’s working, and what’s missing, in a local ecosystem.
A structured, current-state analysis of the resources available to micro-entrepreneurs in a community — capital access barriers, infrastructure gaps, and where support exists on paper but not in practice. The output: a clear map of what's there, what's missing, and where to focus next.
Partnership Strategy
Brokering the actually close local ecosystem gaps.
Ecosystems aren't built by one organization alone. This work connects economic development offices, nonprofits, financial institutions, and community spaces to identify where partnership, not a new program, is the real fix, then helps broker the relationships that make it happen.