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Local Small Business Resource Partners
LOCATION
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Aiken
Aiken Area SBDC
The SBDC provides managerial and technical assistance to businesses, offering advice on such issues as general business management, marketing, legal issues, tax, accounting, bookkeeping, financing,...View details

Aiken
SCORE Counselors to America's Small Business
SCORE mentors provide free & confidential business mentoring through local Chapters or Online Counseling . SCORE helps entrepreneurs develop business plans, explore growth opportunities...View details

Beaufort
Beaufort Area SBDC
The SBDC works with start-up and existing business owners providing free counseling services on issues such as business planning, registering a business, financing, regulations, licensing,...View details

Charleston
Charleston Citywide Local Development Corporation
Serving Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton and Dorchester Counties. Provides small loans ranging from under $5,000 to a maximum of $50,000 to prospective, small business borrowers. Included in...View details

Clemson
Clemson Area SBDC
The SBDC works with start-up and existing business owners providing free counseling services on issues such as business planning, registering a business, financing, regulations, licensing,...View details

Clemson
Tri-County Area SBDC
The SBDC works with start-up and existing business owners providing free counseling services on issues such as business planning, registering a business, financing, regulations, licensing,...View details

Columbia
Business Carolina, Inc.
Provides small loans ranging from under $100 to a maximum of $25,000 to prospective, small business borrowers and backed by the US SBA. Contact: Charlie E. Harmon, CEO...View details

Columbia
Certified Development Corporation of South Carolina
A non-profit corporation partnering with the US SBA and private sector lenders to provide growing businesses with long-term, fixed-rate financing for major fixed assets, such as land and buildings. Contact:...View details

Columbia
Columbia Area SBDC
The SBDC works with start-up and existing business owners providing free counseling services on issues such as business planning, registering a business, financing, regulations, licensing,...View details

Columbia
SBDC of South Carolina-State Directors Office
The SBDC works with start-up and existing business owners providing free counseling services on issues such as business planning, registering a business, financing, regulations, licensing,...View details

Columbia
SCORE Counselors to America's Small Business
SCORE mentors provide free & confidential business mentoring through local Chapters or Online Counseling . SCORE helps entrepreneurs develop business plans, explore growth opportunities...View details

Columbia
Small Business Administration (SBA) South Carolina District Office
Works to aid, counsel, assist and protect the interests of small business concerns, to preserve free competitive enterprise and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of our nation....View details

Florence
Florence Area SBDC
The SBDC works with start-up and existing business owners providing free counseling services on issues such as business planning, registering a business, financing, regulations, licensing,...View details

Greenville
Appalachian Development Corporation
A non-profit corporation partnering with the US SBA and private sector lenders to provide growing businesses with long-term, fixed-rate financing for major fixed assets, such as land and buildings. Contact:...View details

Greenville
Greenville Area SBDC
The SBDC works with start-up and existing business owners providing free counseling services on issues such as business planning, registering a business, financing, regulations, licensing,...View details

Greenville
SCORE Counselors to America's Small Business
SCORE mentors provide free & confidential business mentoring through local Chapters or Online Counseling . SCORE helps entrepreneurs develop business plans, explore growth opportunities...View details

Greenwood
Greenwood Area SBDC
The SBDC works with start-up and existing business owners providing free counseling services on issues such as business planning, registering a business, financing, regulations, licensing,...View details

Hilton Head
Hilton Head Area SBDC
The SBDC works with start-up and existing business owners providing free counseling services on issues such as business planning, registering a business, financing, regulations, licensing,...View details

Hilton Head Island
SCORE Counselors to America's Small Business
SCORE mentors provide free & confidential business mentoring through local Chapters or Online Counseling . SCORE helps entrepreneurs develop business plans, explore growth opportunities...View details

Myrtle Beach
Myrtle Beach Area SBDC
The SBDC works with start-up and existing business owners providing free counseling services on issues such as business planning, registering a business, financing, regulations, licensing,...View details

Myrtle Beach
SCORE Counselors to America's Small Business
SCORE mentors provide free & confidential business mentoring through local Chapters or Online Counseling . SCORE helps entrepreneurs develop business plans, explore growth opportunities...View details

North Charleston
Charleston Area SBDC
The SBDC works with start-up and existing business owners providing free counseling services on issues such as business planning, registering a business, financing, regulations, licensing,...View details

North Charleston
SCORE Counselors to America's Small Business
SCORE mentors provide free & confidential business mentoring through local Chapters or Online Counseling . SCORE helps entrepreneurs develop business plans, explore growth opportunities...View details

Orangeburg
Orangeburg Area SBDC
The SBDC works with start-up and existing business owners providing free counseling services on issues such as business planning, registering a business, financing, regulations, licensing,...View details

Rock Hill
Catawaba Regional Development Corporation
A non-profit corporation partnering with the US SBA and private sector lenders to provide growing businesses with long-term, fixed-rate financing for major fixed assets, such as land and buildings. Contact:...View details

Rock Hill
Rock Hill Area SBDC
The SBDC works with start-up and existing business owners providing free counseling services on issues such as business planning, registering a business, financing, regulations, licensing,...View details

Spartanburg
Spartanburg Area SBDC
The SBDC works with start-up and existing business owners providing free counseling services on issues such as business planning, registering a business, financing, regulations, licensing,...View details

State Wide
South Carolina Community Enterprise and Women's Business Center (SCWBC) Barnwell Office
SCWBC offers business guidance, technical assistance and other resources to support both men and women entrepreneurs in South Carolina from start-up to growth and final exit strategies. Funded...View details

State Wide
South Carolina Community Enterprise and Women's Business Center (SCWBC) Colleton Office
SCWBC offers business guidance, technical assistance and other resources to support both men and women entrepreneurs in South Carolina from start-up to growth and final exit strategies. Funded...View details

State Wide
South Carolina Community Enterprise and Women's Business Center (SCWBC) Columbia Office
SCWBC offers business guidance, technical assistance and other resources to support both men and women entrepreneurs in South Carolina from start-up to growth and final exit strategies. Funded...View details

State Wide
South Carolina Community Enterprise and Women's Business Center (SCWBC) Darlington Office
SCWBC offers business guidance, technical assistance and other resources to support both men and women entrepreneurs in South Carolina from start-up to growth and final exit strategies. Funded...View details

State Wide
South Carolina Community Enterprise and Women's Business Center (SCWBC) Greenville Office
SCWBC offers business guidance, technical assistance and other resources to support both men and women entrepreneurs in South Carolina from start-up to growth and final exit strategies. Funded...View details

State Wide
South Carolina Community Enterprise and Women's Business Center (SCWBC) LOWER ORANGEBURG/ UPPER DORCHESTER Office
SCWBC offers business guidance, technical assistance and other resources to support both men and women entrepreneurs in South Carolina from start-up to growth and final exit strategies. Funded...View details

Sumter
Santee-Lynches Regional Development Corporation
A non-profit economic development corporation for the South Carolina Counties of Clarendon, Kershaw, Lee and Sumter. The RDC partners with the EDA, USDA, US SBA and private sector lenders to...View details



Statewide and Nationwide Small Business Resource Partners
LOCATION
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Statewide
Small Business Administration(SBA) Office of Veterans Business Development (OVBD)
OVBDs mission is to assist veterans, service-disabled veterans, reserve component members, and their dependents or survivors by helping them to learn about, access and effectively utilize all...View details

Nationwide
Foundation for the Advancement of Marketing Excellence in Entrepreneurs ( FAMEE)
FAMEE is a nonprofit organization that offers online marketing courses tailored to the interests and needs of small and medium sized businesses. Access to online courses, support materials and...View details

Nationwide
SCORE Counselors to America's Small Business
SCORE offers free, confidential small business advice for anyone looking to start, grow and succeed in business. With a national volunteer network of over 10,500 business counselors and 389 chapters,...View details

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