MSBDC Network

 
   

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About Us

The Massachusetts Small Business Development Center Network's Western Regional Office provides free and confidential one-to-one business advising to prospective and existing small businesses.

Services are available to Massachusetts start-ups and existing businesses located in Hampden, Hampshire, Franklin and Berkshire counties. Areas of assistance include business plan development, preventure feasibility, conventional and non-conventional financing, cash flow analysis, organizational and personnel issues and marketing.

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.

Training programs are offered for a nominal fee on a wide variety of management issues. Many programs are cosponsored with chambers of commerce, banks, local colleges and universities, community development organizations and trade associations.

Mission

The Massachusetts Small Business Development Center Network provides high-quality, in-depth business advising, training and capital access which contributes to the entrepreneurial growth of small businesses throughout Massachusetts. Our services are delivered through a network of skilled professional staff supported by a federal, state, and higher education consortium as well as several partnerships.

 


A partnership program with the U.S. Small Business Administration and the Massachusetts Department of Business Development under cooperative agreement 8-603001-Z-0022-28 through the University of Massachusetts, Isenberg School of Management. SBDCs are a program supported by SBA and extended to the public on a non-discriminatory basis. SBA cannot endorse any products, opinions or services of any external parties or activities. Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities will be made if requested at least two weeks in advance.
 

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