From our offices in Brooklyn and Staten Island, the BOC Women’s Business Center (WBC) offers business training, one-on-one counseling and financing resources to help women entrepreneurs start and grow their businesses. By educating and empowering underserved women entrepreneurs, the WBC contributes to the economic, cultural, and social vitality of our communities.

Locations

For Calendar of Events, click here

One-on-One Counseling

• Business start-up/expansion
• Access to financing
• Business-plan development
• Workforce development assistance
• Start-up grant packaging for low-income entrepreneurs
• Legal assistance
• Market research/strategies
• Import-export information and assistance
• Licensing and permit information
• Product pricing
• Procurement assistance
• Minority certification

Commercial Loans

• BOC Capital Corp. Small-Business Loan Fund
  BOC Capital Corp. offers small-business loans of up to $25,000. Our goal is to strengthen businesses and to help them move to the next level. We offer local entrepreneurs flexible loans, as well as ongoing business assistance. For more information about the BOC nearest you, click here.
• Assistance with SBA loan packaging
• Assistance with conventional loan packaging

Seminars and Trainings

Business American-Style
Doing business in New York City can be confusing, especially if English isn’t your first language. “Business American-Style” offers a series of seminars that provide practical information in English and the native languages of New York’s immigrant communities.

Experienced speakers, who are professionals in their fields, cover the essential elements of applying for banking and business credit, as well as government regulations, insurance and legal issues, accounting and taxes. and planning and marketing.

Childcare Business Development Project
Our Childcare Business Development Project helps home-based childcare providers develop and enhance their businesses. Now, needed services and support in achieving economic self- sufficiency are available to childcare providers through this special project, including:

• Individualized start-up and operations assistance
• Practical business training
• Business and marketing planning
• Free legal assistance if qualified
• Free tax assistance
• Access to grants and loans
• Networking opportunities

Core Four
The Core Four training program offers 60 hours of instruction from business-plan develop- ment and obtaining financing, to marketing your business.

This U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Cooperative Agreement is partially funded by the SBA. SBA’s funding is not an endorsement of any products, opinions, or services. All SBA funded programs are extended to the public on a nondiscriminatory basis. Arrangements for persons with disabilities will be made at all times in accordance with the American With Disabilities Act of 1990 and associated amendments. Arrangements for persons with special needs will be made if requested at least two weeks in advance.

The Business Outreach Center Women’s Business Center is also partially funded by the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Office of Women’s Business Ownership (OWBO). The Office of Women’s Business Ownership is established to help women become full partners in economic development through small business ownership.

The Women’s Business Ownership Homepage address is www.sba.gov/womeninbusiness. SBA’s cooperation does not constitute or imply its endorsement of any opinions, products, and/or services.

www.sba.gov
www.onlinewbc.gov

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