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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.

82 Best Business Ideas for New Entrepreneurs (2023 Edition)

To help get you started Digital.com came up with a list of online– and offline-based profitable business ideas that are easy to start and in demand.

Venturize: Resources to grow your small business in the new year!

Learn about loans, retirement and healthcare for small businesses, get connected to trusted providers to help your enterprise grow.

Synergies Work – Where Ability Meets Opportunity

Are you an entrepreneur with a disability? We invite you to join the Synergies Work community to gain access to our resources, programs, and events.

RoadPitch: Connecting Black Founders to Investors

We are a fundraising initiative doing things a little differently. Our focus is on getting black tech founders funded by accredited investors.

Black Inclusive Wall Street – Chicagoland DPOCC

Chicagoland DPOCC launched the Black Inclusive Wall Street Project to promote the work of Black disabled/Deaf/neurodivergent/autistic entrepreneurs, artists, freelancers, social media influencers, and independent contractors.

NDI’s Taxes and Tax Preparation Page

Educating people with disabilities about the benefits and savings that tax credits like the EITC can help them achieve their financial wellness goals.

Vocational Rehabilitation Self-Employment Guide

The VR Self-Employment Guide is a multimedia website designed to help people with disabilities and vocational rehabilitation counselors understand the self-employment process.

My Way to Credit

Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) have been a critical part of JPMorgan Chase’s work to help underserved communities thrive for years.

How to Write a Business Plan

Discover all the doors a solid business plan can help open for you, including business banking accounts, loans and other forms of funding. Presented by Chase for Business.

Starting a Business Checklist

Make the most of every opportunity with business resources to guide you. Our business banking resources can help you start, manage, or grow your business.

How to Get Your Business Started

Explore resources designed to help you set your business up for success.

Business Coaching from Chase for Business

Work with a coach and learn how to gather and leverage certain customer insights to help make data-driven decisions and drive business growth.

Advancing Black Entrepreneurs

An educational program offering practical advice and resources to help Black business owners prepare their businesses for long-term success.

Proven Ways to Successfully Manage Small Business When You Have ADHD

In this in-depth article, we discuss five specific areas where business small owners with ADHD are particularly challenged, and how they can deal with it.

The Fountain Fund

We provide low-interest loans and financial coaching to formerly incarcerated people, helping them build credit and achieve their self-determined goals.

We All Grow

The #WeAllGrow Latina membership group, AMIGAS, is the social network for original content, digital tools, virtual events and community for Latina entrepreneurs, creatives and professionals. ¡Se puede participar en inglés y en español!

Ureeka

Ureeka is a Community where small businesses gain unprecedented access to the expertise needed to grow their business.

WE NYC (Women Entrepreneurs NYC)

WE NYC (Women Entrepreneurs NYC) is an initiative based out of the New York City Department of Small Business Services that is dedicated to helping women start and grow their businesses.

National Association of Women Business Owners

NAWBO was founded in 1975 to be the first advocacy organization for all women business owners. NAWBO is the only dues-based organization representing the interests of all women entrepreneurs across all industries; with chapters across the country.

Planoly

PLANOLY was the first visual planner for Instagram – homegrown and beautifully crafted to be simple, clean and easy to use. Now we’re simplifying social marketing on TikTok, Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube too!

Made In NYC

Made in NYC offers free learning opportunities designed for the marketing, design and production needs of small makers and manufacturers.

Business Outreach Center (BOC) Network

Business Outreach Center Network’s mission is to improve the economic prospects of traditionally underserved groups, with a focus on low- and moderate-income entrepreneurs and their communities, and thereby create genuinely brighter futures.

The Microenterprise Project

The VOLS Microenterprise Project helps existing and aspiring small business owners and microentrepreneurs access high-quality free legal services from our dedicated staff and our network of pro bono lawyers.

FastTrac

FastTrac is a series of entrepreneurship courses offered by the NYC Department of Small Business Services (SBS) for aspiring and established entrepreneurs throughout New York City.

Start Small Think Big

We connect small business owners to our network of professionals who provide their legal, finance, and marketing expertise for free.

Prince George’s County Economic Development Corporation

In collaboration with our Small Business Partners, we address a range of needs for growing companies.

FSC First – Creative Business Financing Solutions

Level Up is a program designed to support and empower small and minority-owned businesses in the state of Maryland by providing access to capital, training, coaching, mentoring, and networking opportunities.

Maryland Community Enterprises

At Maryland Capital Enterprises, we strive to be a catalyst for small business success on Maryland’s Eastern Shore & across the state.

Baltimore Community Lending

Baltimore Community Lending offers small business loans to entrepreneurs in Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Anne Arundel County, Carroll County, Anne Arundel County, Harford County, and Howard County who have no relationship with or are unable to get a loan from a bank, and may not have collateral.

Maryland Microenterprise Loan Program

The Maryland Microenterprise Loan Program expands opportunities for microenterprise development, creates new opportunities for small business development and sustains local economies in Maryland communities.

Washington DC Women’s Business Center

DCWBC envisions a thriving ecosystem of women entrepreneurs in the DC Metro region who have access to the tools, capital, knowledge, and networks to create a supportive environment in which to grow their businesses.

1863 Venture Fund

The goal of this organization is to provide support to minority entrepreneurs in the form of business education and mentoring in areas including marketing, sales, and financial management.

The National Community Reinvestment Coalition Community Investment Fund

NCRC Community Development Fund (CDF) provides loans for struggling small businesses & real estate lending for Black, Latino & LMI communities.

The Latino Economic Development Center Credit Building Loan

Our goal is to drive the economic and social advancement of low to moderate income Latinos and other underserved communities in DC, Maryland, Virginia, and Puerto Rico by equipping them with the skills and tools to achieve financial independence and become leaders in their communities.

The Hive

This co-working space is designed to provide support and opportunities for women and minority-owned businesses and was acquired by WACIF in 2021.

Washington Area Community Investment Fund

Established in 1987, the Washington Area Community Investment Fund’s mission is to increase equity and economic opportunity in underserved communities in the Washington, DC area by investing knowledge, social, and financial capital in low- and moderate-income entrepreneurs.

Appalachian Community Capital

Provides microloans and technical assistance to minority owned and small businesses in the Appalachian region of Virginia.

Latino Economic Development Center

The center will create a $575,000 revolving loan fund to help 45-60 low and moderate income Latino and/or other underserved businesses in Fairfax County. The center will also provide culturally and linguistically specialized technical assistance to borrowers.