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State
Office
227 Isenberg School of Management
University of Massachusetts
121 Presidents Drive
Amherst, MA 01003-9310
www.msbdc.org
Georgianna Parkin, State Director
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Tel: 413-545-6301
Fax: 413-545-1273
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Berkshire Regional Office
75 North Street, Suite 360
Pittsfield, MA 01201
www.msbdc.org/berkshire
Keith Girouard, Regional Director
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Tel: 413-499-0933
Fax: 413-499-3005
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The Berkshire
Regional Office staff hold office hours in Great
Barrington and North Adams, in addition to regular office hours in Pittsfield.
The office provides advice to businesses located in Berkshire County.
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Boston Regional Office
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Minority
Business Center
University of Massachusetts
100 Morrissey Boulevard
McCormack Building, 5th Floor, Room 403
Boston, MA 02125-3393
www.sbdc.umb.edu
Mark Allio, Regional Director |
Tel: 617-287-7750
Fax: 617-287-7767
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The Boston Regional Office & Minority Business Center
provides business owners with access to a network of resources, which
will better enable them to meet the challenges entrepreneur’s face. The
center provides a full range of business advising and training
activities; services include assistance with developing an effective
business plan, financing and loan assistance, strategic, marketing, and
operational analysis. The Boston Regional Office welcomes the
opportunity to leverage resources for minority entrepreneurs. Se habla
Español.
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Central Regional Office
Clark University
125 Woodland Street
Carriage House, First Floor Right
Worcester, MA 01610
www.clarku.edu/offices/sbdc
Laurence Marsh, Regional
Director |
Tel: 508-793-7615
Fax: 508-793-8890
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The Central Regional Office advises businesses located Central Massachusetts.
Typically, counselors will assist clients in developing their business plans,
marketing plans, financials, cash flows and other areas critical to ensure a
successful venture. In addition to office hours in
Worcester, staff also hold office hours at outreach sites throughout Central
Massachusetts.
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Massachusetts Export Center
State Transportation
Building
10 Park Plaza, Suite 4510
Boston, MA 02116
www.mass.gov/export
Paula Murphy, Director |
Tel: 617-973-8664
Fax: 617-973-8681
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Since
its inception in May 1994, the Massachusetts Export Center has assisted
over 12,500 companies and individuals, and serves as the state's point
of contact for Massachusetts businesses seeking export assistance and
information.
Through the Massachusetts
Export Center, companies can access a broad range of export assistance
and services, including: export readiness assessments, one-on-one export
counseling; export workshops, training programs and conferences;
informative export publications; overseas market research and trade
statistics; international marketing activities, include trade missions
and shows; a network of overseas offices providing customized assistance
to qualifying companies; meetings with visiting international business
delegations; export financing; and an informative web site featuring
international business information and upcoming trade-related events.
The center offers a full range of international training topics through
Partners for Trade, an executive seminar series. Topics include, but are
not limited to, letters of credit, export logistics, financing, export
controls and licensing, and the popular Certified Global Business
Professional series.
The Massachusetts Export Center,
hosted by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has four offices which are
strategically located throughout the state to assist companies on a local level.
The Boston office serves as headquarters, with additional offices in Holyoke,
New Bedford and Worcester.
Winner of the Presidential E Award for
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Northeast Regional Office
Salem State College
Enterprise Center
121 Loring Avenue, Suite 310
Salem, MA 01970
www.salemstate.edu/sbdc
Margaret Somer, Regional Director |
Tel: 978-542-6343
Fax: 978-542-6345
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The Northeast Regional Office
provides advice to businesses located in the North Shore and
Merrimack Valley areas of the state. Since its inception in 1992, the
office has worked with over 10,000 entrepreneurs. During that time, the SBDC has assisted
entrepreneurs to raise over $46 million in loans. In
addition to office hours in Salem, staff also hold office hours at
chambers of commerce, local colleges and economic development groups throughout Northeastern Massachusetts.
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Procurement Technical
Assistance Center
227 Isenberg School of Management
University of Massachusetts
121 Presidents Drive
Amherst, MA 01003-9310
www.msbdc.org/ptac
Peter Cokotis, Program Manager |
Tel: 413-545-6303
Fax: 413-545-1273 |
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The Massachusetts Small Business Development Center Network received federal
and state funding to establish a statewide Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC). Resources are concentrated
on assistance to small, minority- and women-owned firms statewide with an emphasis on high
areas of unemployment including Hub Zones. The program manager is housed at the
MSBDC Western Regional Office in Springfield with procurement specialists housed in Springfield,
Lawrence, Boston, Fall River and Worcester. PTAC provides
technical assistance in bid matching for federal, state and municipal
procurement opportunities.
Much of the counseling services are
performed at the client's firm location, making the technical support delivery available
in a timely and cost effective manner. E-commerce, including registering, bidding and
performing on-line, in a paperless environment is a vital part of federal contracting. The
counseling staff supports vendors in those efforts. Technical data, such as
military specifications, standards, pricing histories and technical information by part
number will be supplied. The development of targeted marketing plans with help
registering with each buying agency is also available.
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Southeast Regional
Office
200 Pocasset Street
Fall River, MA 02721
www.msbdc.org/semass
Melinda
Ailes, Regional Director |
Tel: 508-673-9783
Fax: 508-674-1929 |
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The Southeast Regional Office advises businesses located in
Southeastern Massachusetts, including Cape Cod and the Islands. In addition to
office hours in Fall River, staff also hold office hours at outreach sites
throughout Southeastern Massachusetts.
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Western Regional
Office
Scibelli Enterprise Center
One Federal Street
Springfield, MA 01105-1160
www.msbdc.org/wmass
Dianne Fuller Doherty, Regional Director |
Tel: 413-737-6712
Fax: 413-737-2312
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The Western Regional
Office
provides advise to businesses located the Western Massachusetts
counties of Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin. In
addition to office hours at the Springfield office, staff also hold office hours
at outreach sites throughout Western Massachusetts. Services are delivered by a
skilled professional staff with extensive business experience and excellent
educational backgrounds. Their work is augmented by college and university
faculty, qualified students and private consultants.
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