Resources Archive - Small Business Hub

Venture Founders Resources for Startup Founders

Venture Founders Resource Center is a source of knowledge and information for entrepreneurs about everything to do with startups. New Venture Creation is very daunting and confusing, so the Resource Center is designed to make it less so.

Expanding Access to Business Opportunities for BIPOC and Minority Business Owners: A Resource Guide

The Bachelor of Business Administration has collected a slew of BIPOC and minority-owned business resources to help aspiring or current business owners survive and thrive in a cutthroat business market.

Atlanta Tech Park

Atlanta Tech Park, is all about supporting entrepreneurs at every step of their journey! Their mission is to spark innovation and help you grow by tapping into Georgia’s amazing tech scene. They offer a range of programs tailored to your needs, including valuable connections, expert advice, and access to the funding you need. Whether you’re just getting started or looking to take your business to the next level, they are here to help you succeed. Come be part of our vibrant community at Atlanta Tech Park and unlock your full potential today!

Curiosity Lab at Peachtree Corners

A 5G enabled living laboratory for startups and established companies to deploy and prove out developing technologies in a real-world testing environment with no roadblocks, joined by the next generation of intelligent mobility and smart city technology. Curiosity Lab is located in the 500-acre Technology Park with a three-mile public autonomous and advanced vehicle roadway. Additional infrastructure includes dedicated fiber, intelligent traffic cameras and traffic signals, smart streetlights, and a 25,000 square foot innovation center, where startups and corporate innovators create the future together.

Delaware Prosperity Partnership – Start Up Resources

Delaware Prosperity Partnership (DPP) is the nonprofit state economic development agency that leads Delaware’s economic development efforts to attract, grow and retain businesses; build a stronger entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystem; and to support private employers in identifying, recruiting and developing talent in Delaware.

Destination Cleveland

Cleveland’s travel and tourism industry is stronger together. When we collaborate, exchange ideas and identify new ways to foster equitable economic growth within our industry, we all win. At Destination Cleveland, our job is to help you — The Land’s hospitality businesses, attractions and experience providers — leverage and benefit from Cleveland’s growing visitor economy while delivering a world-class visitor experience.

Colorado Enterprise Fund

Colorado Enterprise Fund offers a variety of loan solutions up to $1M to business owners that don’t meet traditional financing guidelines and works with start-ups and existing businesses. They are a certified SBA 7(a) Community Advantage and SBA Microloan lender.

Sears think[box] at Case Western Reserve University

Housed in an iconic seven-story, 50,000-square-foot facility at Case Western Reserve University, Sears think[box] is a world-class innovation center, makerspace and entrepreneurship ecosystem that welcomes thousands of visitors each year—and is open to everyone at no cost.

Open Works Baltimore

Baltimore, once a hub for large-scale manufacturing, has shifted focus to grassroots innovation with the founding of Open Works in 2016. Now one of America’s largest nonprofit makerspaces, Open Works supports 118 jobs and engages over 1,000 young people annually through educational programs, fostering creativity and entrepreneurship.

UMD iCorps

UMD iCorps is the lead institution of the NSF I-Corps Hub: Mid-Atlantic Region and a member of the National Innovation Network, providing real world training on how to incorporate innovations into commercially viable companies to solve societal problems

Maryland Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP)

Maryland Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) works to grow and strengthen Maryland manufacturers through providing TA and resources in areas such as workforce development, supply chains, operations, strategic planning and advanced technologies

BWTech

BWTech fosters the creation, growth, sustainability and commercialization of innovative technology bio-life science and companies in Maryland through its Cyber, Biotech and GovTech incubators, premium workspaces, educational programs, expert mentorship, and access to key industry resources.

PNC Community Micro Equity Fund

Impact Ventures is partnering with The PNC Foundation to provide flexible capital to enterprises that traditionally may not have benefited from the availability of this type of financial resource. The fund is designed to help connect qualified business owners and entrepreneurs in Dallas-Ft Worth with friends and family-type capital. The program will create an ecosystem of support which will include industry sector education and training, working capital, digital founder community, access to Impact Venture’s ‘Founder Hub’ space, and national mentor network.

JumpStart Inc.

All small businesses are different, but many must overcome the same obstacles to grow and prosper. That’s why JumpStart has developed several structured programs designed to help all types of small business owners. No matter what kind of business you’re running, we can help you access the knowledge and resources you need to make it stronger and better.

Free Resume Templates for 2024

Pick one of many world class templates and build your resume in minutes. At ResumeTemplates.com, they understand that writing a resume is a personal journey, unique to each individual. They aspire to provide tools to help forge a successful career path.

Editable free basic resume templates from Adobe

Adobe has recently added a custom resume templating tool that is completely free and open-use. Explore Adobe’s basic resume templates to help you easily create your own design online in minutes.

New York Department of Labor Self-Employment Assistance Program

The Self-Employment Assistance Program (SEAP) allows people who are out of work and meet certain requirements to start their own business while collecting Unemployment Insurance benefits. If you dream of starting your own business and qualify for the SEAP, you can have the financial support you need to pay your bills while you work on that dream!

Disability Benefits at Work (Work Incentive Support Center)

The Work Incentive Support Center offers online training and credentialing aimed at work incentives planners, benefits counselors and financial advisors. The center is housed in the K. Lisa Yang and Hock E. Tan Institute on Employment and Disability. The institute, which is also known as the Yang-Tan Institute or YTI, is part of the ILR School at Cornell University. SSDI and SSI at Work Toolkits are available on the site.

California Small Business Loan Match

Loan Match makes it easier for California entrepreneurs to find trusted loans by gathering dozens of lenders in one place for a one-stop experience. They empower entrepreneurs through responsible lending, backed by the state of California. Fill out a quick questionnaire to find your ideal loan match today.

ADA Quick Tips – Tax Incentives

Tax incentives are available to encourage compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). This chart includes the Federal tax incentives and encourages you to inquire whether your state offers similar incentives. Unfortunately, many business owners and employers are unaware that these incentives exist. Make sure your business takes advantage of these valuable incentives!

Resume and Employment Guide for People With Disabilities

This guide provides best practices for resume writing, information about laws that protect you from discrimination and several other topics that you should know about as a disabled worker.

Business Smart Toolkit

The SBA Business Smart Toolkit is a ready-to-use workshop toolkit that lays the groundwork for helping new and aspiring entrepreneurs launch a business idea and to understand the steps to building a business that is credit-ready.

College Planning Guide For Students With Learning Disabilities

Pursuing higher education is exciting and stressful for every college-bound student, but it can be more challenging for those with learning disabilities. It’s important that students who learn and think differently know how to get the additional support they may need.

EARN Small Business Toolkit

Employer Assistance and Resource Network on Disability Inclusion (EARN) created the new Small Business Toolkit to help small businesses build their talent pipeline and meet their workforce needs by recruiting, hiring, retaining, and advancing employees with disabilities. The Toolkit is one of the latest products of the Office of Disability Employment Policy’s EARN.

Minnesota Employer Reasonable Accommodation Fund

The Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) Employer Reasonable Accommodation Fund (ERAF) creates a central fund where small to mid-sized Minnesota employers can request reimbursement for expenses related to providing reasonable accommodations for job applicants and employees with disabilities.

Disability Inclusive Stock Photography from Disability:IN

Disability:IN is pleased to offer disability-inclusive stock photography to the public. Through this collection, Disability:IN is proud to help corporations and content creators depict people with disabilities in the workplace in an authentic and affirming manner. Disability:IN encourages corporations to use these photos in their marketing material, internal and external communications material, and social media content.

SBDCNet Market Research Services

SBDCNet provides market research services to the entire 1,000+ member SBDC Network of Small Business Development Centers located in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In partnership with your local SBDC, SBDCNet can produce a broad range of financial, market and demographic research reports customized to your specific business and geographic location. These reports are provided free of charge to prospective or existing small business owners who are receiving business advising services from their local SBDC Advisor (also a free service).

U.S. State Disability Agencies & Services Directory

Here is a list of disability agencies and organizations for each state in the United States.

Synergies Work – Where Ability Meets Opportunity

Synergies Work is a platform that connects disabled entrepreneurs with the resources, networks, and communities they need to launch, grow, and scale their businesses. Join the largest community of disability-led startups in the United States today.

Partners in Policymaking – Now Accepting Applications for 2023

Partners in Policymaking is free for participants due to the financial support of the Maryland Developmental Disabilities Council, with each spot in the program valued at over $6,000. This year-long program prepares adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), parents, and family members of children and adults with IDD to be effective advocates at the local, state, and federal levels.

The 2023 Small Business Credit Survey is now open!

The Federal Reserve has begun collecting responses to this year’s Small Business Credit Survey. By taking the survey, business owners and business leaders contribute to data that directly informs the Fed, federal government agencies, service providers, policymakers, and others—ultimately benefitting their business and other businesses like theirs. The survey closes November 17, 2023.