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Offers computer/ IT training, health and safety, industrial and manufacturing, small business development center, skills advantage, and the START (Supervisory Training and Retention Tools) program.

Offers free business mentoring to any aspiring or established owners of a U.S.-based business. SCORE will partner mentors to help support business owner success by providing experienced advice, consulting on best practices, and educating mentees on small business topics.

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Supports startup and small businesses led by BIPOC entrepreneurs in Nebraska and throughout the Midlands. Provides mentoring, business financial literacy training, and funding opportunities.

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Training classes to small and micro business owners. Offers training sessions in Business Planning; B.A.I.L. (Banker, accountant, insurance, legal) available to answer your business questions; Credit Building as an Asset; Setting SMART goals; How to Pitch your business; GrowthWheel; Business Resumption; Credit Building; Intro to Business; Career and Business Planning; Business essentials; Business 101; How to Price your Product/Service; Financial Management; Developing projections, and other areas.
Provides assistance and advice for start-up and emerging businesses. Helps small businesses succeed by providing free access to assistance needed to start and grow a business.

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Economic development services. Assistance Center provides relocation services, rental listing, community tours and business counseling.

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Special Focus Community Economic Development
Business development services for small businesses. Offers one-on-one free and confidential technical and management counseling to persons wishing to go into business and to persons already in business who are experiencing problems or need help in long-range planning, expansion, or diversification.

Pre-business workshops to help potential or existing small business owners acquire the basic knowledge needed to operate a small business. Includes business plan preparation assistance, start-up information, financial assistance preparation, and workshops/seminars covering topics such as Accounting, Management, Marketing, Purchasing, Engineering, Operations, Social Media, and Franchising.

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Small Business Administration helps start, build and grow small businesses. It is a federal agency which provides Government Contracting Assistance and access to capital for small businesses.

Counseling/Support Services provides financial, management, and procurement assistance to those thinking of starting a business and those in business.

Free Online Training available courses are identified by topic. Visit www.sba.gov for more information.

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Loans to qualified small businesses and farmers.

Business counseling through resource partner SCORE. SCORE provides free counseling services to individuals who want to start or expand a small business.

Business kits for new businesses.

Guaranteed loans for qualified small businesses that are administered through lending institutions.

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Women's Business Center helps people to start, expand, or strengthen a small business, also help to prepare business plan and help access business financing. WBC serves as the clearinghouse for great information and resources for starting, strengthening or growing a micro enterprise (business started with five or fewer employees that need $50,000 or less in business financing). Assistance includes: Targeted Small Business Certification, Government Procurement Assistance, Organization and Management Assistance, Human Resource Development, Capturing New Markets, Financial Management.

BUSINESS PLANNING workshops, open to public and available at multiple locations. Call 515-283-0940 for times and locations; pre-registration is required.

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Helps small businesses get off the ground, grow, and achieve their goal through education and mentor-ship.

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A University of Iowa interdisciplinary collaboration which trains students in nonprofit law, offers workshops and training to nonprofit workers statewide, provides critical information on nonprofit issues, and develops publications and guidelines for Iowa's nonprofit organizations. Can also assist individuals looking to start a non-profit organization.

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Specialized Business Development
Offers business growth services, market research, talent and business recruitment.

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Training classes to small and micro business owners. Offers training sessions in Business Planning; B.A.I.L. (Banker, accountant, insurance, legal) available to answer your business questions; Credit Building as an Asset; Setting SMART goals; How to Pitch your business; GrowthWheel; Business Resumption; Credit Building; Intro to Business; Career and Business Planning; Business essentials; Business 101; How to Price your Product/Service; Financial Management; Developing projections, and other areas.
Entrepreneurial counseling and training.

Educator and student resources for future entrepreneurs and offers business-based training for today's business owners.

Empowering Entrepreneurs nurtures communities in Southwest Iowa to support entrepreneurship and brings together community experts and mentors.

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Offers resources for farm families. Information available for connecting with resources in other states, USDA Economic research, sustainable Ag issues, financing options, Farm Management Advisory Services, dispute resolution and mental health questions, legal issues and veteran assistance programs.

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Agricultural Financing
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Agricultural Stabilization/Conservation
Agricultural/Agribusiness Law
Information for start up and small businesses in Nebraska.

Reduce the response time of government to business-related questions.

Business, marketing research assistance and information about the network of business assistance and economic development programs.

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Offers microlending and credit counseling to qualifying small business owners. Women, minorities, disabled persons and service-disabled vets may be eligible for Targeted Small Business status.
Volunteer mentoring program and confidential counseling for those who want to start a business or expand their business. Volunteer opportunities for working and retired executives.

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Offers a four-year degree and offers admission information for undergraduates, graduates, and non-degree students. The University offers career counseling for high school dropouts to the age of 18 to help individuals return to school, study strategies and offer a college tour.

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Business counseling, marketing research and sales development. Existing site and building analysis and financial packaging.

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County Government Departments/Offices
Women's Business Center helps people to start, expand, or strengthen a small business, also help to prepare business plan and help access business financing. WBC serves as the clearinghouse for great information and resources for starting, strengthening or growing a micro enterprise (business started with five or fewer employees that need $50,000 or less in business financing). Assistance includes: Targeted Small Business Certification, Government Procurement Assistance, Organization and Management Assistance, Human Resource Development, Capturing New Markets, Financial Management.

BUSINESS PLANNING workshops, open to public and available at multiple locations. Call 515-283-0940 for times and locations; pre-registration is required.

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Assists entrepreneurs in all stages of business start-up and development including business plan review, financial projections, financial analysis, opportunity assessment, market research, loan applications, government contracting, and marketing strategies.

Cooperative program of the U.S. Small Business Administration and the University of Nebraska.
Small Business Administration helps start, build and grow small businesses. It is a federal agency which provides Government Contracting Assistance and access to capital for small businesses.

Counseling/Support Services provides financial, management, and procurement assistance to those thinking of starting a business and those in business.

Free Online Training available courses are identified by topic. Visit www.sba.gov for more information.

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Business Assistance Services
Business Financing
Offers free small business counseling for new, proposed or already established small business operators. Specialized assistance for international trade, e-commerce, business purchase/sales and financial analysis