Business Impact NW is a consortium of non-profit community development organizations. This includes a community development corporation that provides training, counseling and membership. BIN also includes a certified community development financial institution that provides access to capital and business assistance to small businesses, with special emphasis on low-income, women and minority entrepreneurs and small businesses in distressed and undeserved communities in Washington State. BIN's approach to economic development and alleviating poverty is through self-sufficiency achieved through entrepreneurialism.