Partners
Visit these websites for information, events, seminars and workshops for small business owners and entrepreneurs.
Accion New York
Provider of loans and business/credit advisory services to individuals who lack access to traditional sources of credit. Offers free workshops on business/credit topics.
Phone: (212) 387-0377
www.accionnewyork.org
Baruch College's Small Business Development Center
Offers free one-on-one counseling and training on all aspects of starting and operating a business. Baruch College's SBDC & Field Center for Entrepreneurship provide counseling and workshops.
Phone: 646-312-4790
www.nyssbdc.org/centers/centers.cfm?centid=24
Borough of Manhattan Community College, Continuing Education Division
Offers short-term personal development courses as well as career development training programs for area residents. Course descriptions on website.
Phone: 212.346.8410
www.bmcc.cuny.edu/ce
St. Nick’s – Brooklyn Business Center
Trains and assists entrepreneurs and small business owners in the community to start and/or expand their businesses. The Center runs workshops and training programs and partners with New York State’s Entrepreneurial Assistance Program and the Minority and Women’s Business Development Program.
Phone: 718-388-5454 x162
www.brooklynbusinesscenter.com
Brooklyn Enterprise Center at the Local Development Corporation of
East New York
Offers discussions, roundtables and programs on business development and coaching to help local residents start, manage and grow their own businesses.
Phone: 718-385-6700
www.ldceny.org
The Business Outreach Center (BOC) Network - Women's Business Center (WBC)
A micro-enterprise/small business development organization delivering customized business services to under-served entrepreneurs. In Brooklyn and Staten Island, the BOC WBC program offers business training, one-on-one counseling and financing resources to help women entrepreneurs start and grow a businesses as well as short-term business workshops on marketing, internet, financing, customer service, and government procurement.
Phone 718- 624-9115
www.bocnet.org
Brooklyn Public Library, Business Library
Offers many seminars and extensive reference material for entrepreneurs including financial, entrepreneur and technology series.
Email: busref@brooklynpubliclibrary.org
www.biz.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/index.cfm/bay/comm.programs.htm
CAMBA Small Business Services
Provides services tailored to the needs of entrepreneurs in Brooklyn, specifically one-on-one counseling, training and technical assistance, access to low-income grants, linkages with other business development partners and micro loans up to $15,000 for Brooklyn-based entrepreneurs who have strong business ideas but lack appropriate financing.
Phone: 718-282-2500
Email: smallbiz@camba.org
www.camba.org
Career Women’s Initiative
Emphasizes networking and business development issues facing women lawyers – especially associate through junior partner level- as well as lawyers considering an employer change, but discussions are relevant to women from a variety of sectors, especially professional services.
Phone: 917-715-8909
www.careerwomensinitiative.com
The Center for an Urban Future
A non-partisan policy institute based in New York City that publishes studies about entrepreneurship, small businesses, economic development, workforce development and higher education including the 2007 acclaimed report about the impact that immigrant entrepreneurs are having in New York’s economy, and the challenges they face in doing business here.
www.nycfuture.org
Elan-sa International
New York State Small Business Development Center Woman Entrepreneur of 2008, Elaine Wilshire, founder of Elan-sa International is a client of the Institute who designs, manufactures and distributes designer handbags.
www.elansa.com
Freelancers Union
The Freelancers Union brings together independent workers - artists, writers, crafts people - and gives access to group insurance, discounts on supplies, education events, listing in the Freelancers Yellow Pages and job and networking opportunities. Membership is free. Phone: 718-532-1515
www.workingtoday.org
IBM and IFC
IBM Corporation's Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs and Market Development departments and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), an arm of the World Bank developed the SME Toolkit, a free, on-line resource of business forms, tools, articles, chat rooms, forums and training materials to help small businesses. It was developed specifically to help women and minority owned businesses and entrepreneurs. The toolkit allows entrepreneurs to find partners, suppliers and customers.
www.smetoolkit.org
In Good Company Workplaces
Offers a shared workspace for women entrepreneurs who act as a network with their diverse businesses. There is an ongoing series of business-building seminars.
www.ingoodcompanyworkplaces.com
The Handel Group
The Handel Group is a corporate consulting and private coaching company with over 20 years experience coaching individuals, groups, entrepreneurs, couples and families. It helps people take focused action in every area of life. The Handel Group is also a visiting scholar at MIT and has been teaching its defining course, Living an Extraordinary Life, for the last three years. (800) 617-7040.
www.handelgroup.com
Marketing Mentor
Marketing Mentor is a resource for creative business growth, founded by Ilise Benun. Marketing Mentor offers customized, one-on-one mentoring for small business owners, with a focus on women entrepreneurs and creative solopreneurs. To schedule a free phone consultation or sign up for Quick Tips from Marketing Mentor, its free email newsletter, go to the website.
www.marketing-mentor.com
Muse2Muse Productions Inc.
Joanna L. Krotz is the founder of Muse2Muse, a certified Woman-Owned Business which provides custom content to create magazines, newsletters and digital communications for consumer and business-to-business imprints. She is co-author of "The Microsoft Small Business Kit", a 500-page guide to launching and running a small business, published by the Microsoft Learning Center.
www.muse2muse.com
Neighborhood Entrepreneur Law Project
A project of the City Bar Justice Center provides free quality legal assistance to low-income micro entrepreneurs who are interested in starting a small business or who already have an existing business within NYC.
Phone: 212-382-6633.
www.citybarjusticecenter.org
New York Association for New Americans, Inc. Women’s Business Center – NYANA
Provides micro-loans from $500 to $35,000, workshops on eCommerce and business management, one-on-one counseling, and networking opportunities to help women entrepreneurs to start and grow their businesses.
Phone: 212-898-4167
www.nyana.org
NYC Business Solutions
An initiative of the New York City Department of Small Business Services (SBS). SBS is a city agency dedicated to promoting the growth of small business, an engine for job creation, neighborhood development and overall economic health. SBS offers free answers to business questions for entrepreneurs and on-going enterprises - of any size. The Mission is to help the NYC business community find efficient solutions to common business problems. Their web page links to their calender of seminars, services and centers. They have many locations throughout the five boroughs.
www.nyc.gov/html/sbs/nycbiz/html/home/home.shtml
The NYC Department of Small Business Services and the Science, Industry and Business Library
The New York Public Library Small Business Resource Center site offers templates of business plans, business forms, and counseling, business directories, listing of events, seminars, and forums and “Ask a Question’.
Phone: 212-618-8722
www.nypl.org/index.html
The NYC Department of Small Business Solutions
Offers Free M/WBE (minority/women’s business enterprise) Certification Workshops
http://nyc.gov/html/sbs/nycbiz/html/selling_to_government/wbe.shtml
The New York Enterprise Report
A magazine featuring articles written by leading business experts specifically for small and midsize businesses, with an emphasis on businesses in the New York metro area. Each issue features thousands of dollars of expertise making NY Report the must read publication for New York area business. Get a free subscription at our website.
Phone: 212-307-6760
www.nyreport.com
New York Women Social Entrepreneurs (NYWSE)
Supports and promotes women social entrepreneurs through workshops, networking opportunities, and a book club forum.
http://www.ywse.org/nywse/
New York State's Empire State Development Division for Small Business
Posts the State's Events Calendar for Small Businesses.
Phone: 1-800-782-8369
www.nylovessmallbiz.com/EventsCalendar.asp
The Pace University Small Business Development Center (SBDC)
Provides management and technical assistance to small businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs, free of charge, via one-on-one counseling. This counseling focuses on the development of superior business plans and locating appropriate sources of funding. It also offers regular “Business Planning for Success” and “Introduction to QuickBooks and Basic Bookkeeping” workshops.
Phone: 212-618-6655.
Email: sbdc@pace.edu
http://manhattan.nyssbdc.org
Project Enterprise
Supports and develops entrepreneurs and small businesses in under-resourced communities in New York City. Project Enterprise's peer lending program is a comprehensive delivers micro credit, business training and networking opportunities to entrepreneurs in NYC's economically disadvantaged communities.
Phone: 212-678-6734
www.projectenterprise.org
Queens Economic Development Corporation’s Women’s Business Center
An award-winning provider of counseling and training for women who are starting or expanding their business. The Center features a monthly curriculum of business development workshops, an annual business plan competition, a mentoring program for existing businesses and a business incubator.
Phone: 718-263-0546
www.queensny.org
Queens Public Library
Holds seminars and has a comprehensive reading list for entrepreneurs.
Phone: 718-990-0700
www.queenslibrary.org
Renaissance Economic Development Corporation
Provides a small business resource specializing in Chinatown businesses.
Phone: 212-964-6022
www.renaissance-ny.org/about.html
SCORE
This organization is a corps of retired senior executives counseling and mentoring small business operators, and is an arm of the U.S. Small Business Administration. SCORE offers seminars on How to Start Restaurants and Food Services businesses, E-Commerce, How to Start and Operate a Service Business, Financing and Business Basics, Marketing Yourself and Your Business, Business Plans that Work For You, Retailing, How to Manage your Import/Export Business.
Phone: 212- 264-4507
www.scorenyc.org/seminarScore/product_cat.php/subid=4/index.html
www.score.org/women is a new Web site for women that provides interactive tools, mentoring, workshops and articles to help women entrepreneurs achieve their business dreams.
The Technology Therapy Group
Helps small and mid-sized businesses market their products and services through training, eMarketing and web design applying technology to practical business applications to increase sales and greater market share which can lead to enhanced employee productivity. They offer web classes, seminars and one on one interaction.
Phone: 212- 264-4507
www.technologytherapy.com
Women's Venture Fund
One of the SBA's women's business centers in Manhattan and Newark, N.J., helps women with entrepreneurial training, small business loans, peer groups and a network of business advisors to help women reach their business goals. By troubleshooting and encouraging women to share their experiences with other entrepreneurs, WVF is able to expedite the growth of businesses participating in its programs.
Phone: 212-563-0499
www.womensventurefund.org/Training_Schedule.htm
Workshops in Business Opportunities
A nonprofit organization offering an intensive 16 week “boot camp” workshop series, How to Build a Growing Profitable Business. Other services include a monthly legal clinic, small business focused seminars and one-on-one consulting.
Phone: 212-684-0854
www.wibo.org
U.S. Small Business Administration
The SBA website offers extensive information to help small businesses succeed including a business planner, workshops, programs, counseling in New York and across the U.S.
www.sba.gov
XynoMedia
Offers jargon-free yet comprehensive training and coaching for women business owners who want to start a blog or podcast. Courses are delivered by telephone and the Internet and are available in a group or one-on-one setting.
Phone: 914-377-0600
www.xynoMedia.com
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