Greater Boston Region
The Massachusetts Small Business
Development Center is committed to helping your
business succeed in Massachusetts! We
provide free, confidential, one-to-one business
assistance and free or low-cost educational
training programs to prospective and existing small
businesses. Areas of assistance include,
but are not limited to:
business plan development, preventure feasibility, cash
flow analysis, personnel and organizational issues, conventional and
non-conventional financing, and marketing.
Established in 2022 and headquartered at the Mount Ida Campus of UMass Amherst in Newton, the Greater Boston Region is a convenient location for prospective and existing entrepreneurs to receive services. We offer both in-person and virtual appointments. Appointments are required and we cannot accommodate walk-ins.
The Greater Boston Region provides
services to the following towns and cities: Allston,
Arlington, Arlington Heights, Auburndale, Belmont,
Boston, Brighton, Burlington, Cambridge, Charlestown,
Chelsea, Chestnut Hill, Concord, Dedham, Dorchester,
Everett, Hanover, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Lexington,
Lincoln, Malden, Mattapan, Medford, Melrose, Milton,
Needham, Needham, Newton, Revere, Roslindale,
Somerville, Stoneham, Waltham, Watertown, Waverley,
Wellesley, West Medford, West Newton, West Roxbury,
Weston, Winchester, Winthrop and Woburn.
Click on the Request for Advising button to register for free and confidential business assistance. All clients are required to complete and sign our Request for Advising in order to receive advising services. Your information will be sent directly to our office.
**Please be advised that due to a high demand for services and staffing shortage at this office, the lead time for an appointment with an advisor is currently 4-6 weeks. Appointments are required and we cannot accommodate walk-ins.
If you are in the early stages of
exploring and developing a business idea and have not yet officially
launched or generated revenue, you will be required to take
our online "How to Start a Business" training series prior to
booking an appointment with an advisor. If this applies to you, once your Request for
Advising is processed, you will receive an email from our office
with a link to the training series.
You will receive an email confirmation from centeric@clients.msbdc.org. Please add this email address to your approved sender list so the confirmation is delivered to your inbox.
If you need assistance other than advising, click on the Contact Us button below.