|
|
|
Small Business Resources
- APNBA - Alliance of Portland Neighborhood Business Associations
The APNBA is a collective of all the business district associations located in neighborhoods, industrial sanctuaries, town centers, and main streets in Portland, Oregon. A Business District Association (BDA) is a group of businesses organized to support and promote the commercial area where they operate.
- Better Business Bureau of Oregon
Their mission is to promote the highest ethical marketplace relationship between businesses and the public through self-regulation, education, and information.
- City of Portland - PortlandOnline
Official web site for the City of Portland, Oregon
- City of Portland's Small Business Advisory Council
Representing the diversity found in the Portland business community, they provide an organized voice for small business with the Portland City Council on policies that impact small business.
- Lewis & Clark Law School Small Business Legal Assistance
The Lewis & Clark Law School Small Business Legal Clinic provides low-income, minority, and women-owned small and emerging businesses with transactional legal assistance. Additionally, they are building a pro bono network of business attorney's to provide long-term support.
- Master’s Advisory Cohort
The Master’s Advisory Cohort (formerly the Opportunity Knocks program) was started by the Portland Chamber of Commerce and is now managed by the Small Business Development Center (SBDC). The program offers peer-to-peer problem-solving where teams meet regularly to help each other with long-term strategic issues and challenges that face smaller businesses.
- OAME - Oregon Association of Minority Entrepreneurs
OAME is one of the premier organizations in the United States providing outstanding services to minority, women, and emerging small businesses. OAME is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization formed to promote and develop entrepreneurship and economic development for ethnic minorities in the State of Oregon.
- Portland Development Commission
As the city of Portland's economic development agency, PDC invests in Portland's future. PDC Business Services concentrates on creating and retaining jobs; attracting and leveraging private investment; and nurturing business formation and growth.
- Portland State University - Business Outreach Program
The Business Outreach Program at Portland State University has a twelve-year history of assisting low to moderate income, primarily minority and women-owned small business owners and micro-entrepreneurs in inner North and Northeast Portland while providing Portland State University students with a unique opportunity to engage in community-based learning with local, small businesses and service providers.
- SBDC - Small Business Development Center
You'll find a unique and valuable resource in the SBDC. Their services are available to anyone who owns, operates - or is considering starting - a small business in Oregon. They are funded by the U.S. Small Business Administration and the Oregon Economic & Community Development Department.
- SCORE
The Portland chapter of SCORE is a part of the national SCORE organization that works in partnership with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) to provide professional guidance and information to small business owners. SCORE is a non-profit, all volunteer organization, whose mission is to help small businesses and small business entrepreneurs become more successful.
- U.S. Small Business Administration
The SBA was created in 1953 as an independent agency of the federal government to aid, counsel, assist and protect the interests of small business concerns, to preserve free competitive enterprise and maintain and strengthen the overall economy of our nation.
|
|
