
Free Resources
Welcome to Vida Mejor Capital’s Free Resources hub — your go-to space for practical tools, insights, and educational support designed to help food enterprises and retail businesses thrive. Here, you'll find recorded webinars, guides, and templates that support your growth and success in the healthy food sector.
Featured Webinar Series
Business Development Basics
This webinar provides essential business development strategies tailored for both Native-owned and non-Native-owned food enterprises and food retail businesses. It is the first installment in a four-part series designed to strengthen business fundamentals, financial readiness, and long-term sustainability.
Capital Ready: Preparing Native-Owned Food and Ag Businesses for Grant and Lending
"Capital Ready" helps Native-owned food and ag businesses understand the basics of grants and loans. It covers key documents and systems needed to become capital ready and highlights funding opportunities for Native and rural businesses.
Building a Strong Workforce: Hiring, Training, and Retaining Rural Talent
"Building a Strong Workforce" focuses on hiring, training, and retaining talent in rural food and ag businesses. It covers workforce needs, effective hiring and training practices, and strategies to build loyalty and keep great employees.
Employment Services Overview from NM Department of Workforce Solutions
This webinar from the New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions provides an overview of their Employment Services Division, highlighting support for job seekers, collaboration with businesses and schools, and access to services through 26 America’s Job Centers across the state.
Leading with Tradition and Vision: Native Business Leadership in the Food and Ag Sectors
This webinar, "Leading with Tradition and Vision: Native Business Leadership in the Food and Ag Sectors," explores leadership rooted in cultural values and community vision. Participants reflect on their strengths, learn approaches to confident and values-based leadership, and gain tools to manage change and growth with integrity.