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Affiliates and
Alliances |
| SCORE-Erie works with many local resources
to provide a wide range of professional resources
to the clients. These are a few of the many resources that
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| SCORE-Erie is not responsible for the
content of any website listed here. These links are listed
as suggestions to clients to help them in their quest for
answers to small business financial problems. |
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Erie Regional Chamber and Growth Partnership
Works with area businesses to identify sources of
assistance needed to allow their businesses to grow.
Areas of free assistance include hiring, training, marketing
financing and other expansion needs |
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Northwest PA
Industrial Resource Center Inc
Offers existing manufacturers the opportunity for
guidance in lean manufacturing techniques, strategic
planning, sales generation., succession planning, export
services, product development, and market development. |
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Ben Franklin Technology PArtnership
Provides funding and operational assistance to
technology-based start-up
as well as existing manufacturers for the purpose of
creating and retaining jobs in PA. |
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EbizIT PA (Center for Ebusiness and Advanced IT)
Offers assistance for information technology based
new product development, IT implementation and
apprentice and internship programs in MIS, business
intelligence, engineering and e-marketing. |
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Technology Council/KIZ Program
Provides networking, marketing, and business growth
opportunities for technology-driven companies. |
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Gannon Small Business Development Center
Offers business planning and consulting to new and existing
businesses in the greater Erie metropolitan area and is
affiliated with Gannon University, Based on their charter
they refer not-profit inquiries to SCORE-Erie. |
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Erie Technology Incubator
Offers an entrepreneurial environment that
fosters innovation and collaboration among its companies.
Each company is assigned a team of counselors to assist them
in areas of marketing, finance and manufacturing while in
the incubator. Collaborates with Gannon University with a
primary focus of high technology initiatives and concepts. |
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The Mission of the Erie County Public
Library is to improve the quality of life of citizens by
providing materials, services, and programs that promote
education, cultural enrichment, and recreation. |
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Edinboro Incubator (Startup)
Offers a materials testing center and incubator for
art-based manufacturing start-up companies.
Collaborates with Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and
other collages and universities to extend their educational
mission to economics development.
Its primary goal is to grow the regional entrepreneurial
cultural and economic base by linking academic capacity in arts and
technology to the regional strength in manufacturing to
foster the growth of art-based businesses and traditional
manufacturing. |
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WEDOŽ
Women's Economic Development
Outreach is a coalition of business experts working
in collaboration to provide focused resources that
help women owned and managed businesses flourish.
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Grants:
SCORE clients frequently ask: How do I obtain a business
grant? While the U.S. Government grant agencies and
private organizations do provide grant money, they
generally direct their assistance towards specific
projects, charities, lending organizations and
educational groups. Rather than to individual small
business owners.
These web sites provide information on small business
grants, loans and start-up funding:
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www.businessfinance.com - Their mission is to
provide accurate, unbiased business finance
information. This site maintains a database of more
than 4,000 sources of business capital that can be
searched free of charge
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www.sba.gov - Their Federal Grant Resource page
discusses the agency's grant program. The SBA Loan Programs
page gives a snapshot of SBA loans. |
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