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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.

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.

4 Free, Online Entrepreneurship Growth Programs Starting in 2023!

Will Holmes Consulting works to provide our award-winning curriculum, proven to create increases in revenue, add jobs and have a positive impact on the local economy. Two of the programs offer a grant upon successful completion.

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.

WENYC

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.

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.

Community Investment Collaborative (CIC)

Will provide loans and microgrants for small businesses to help start and grow emerging enterprises

Women’s Business Center at Old Dominion University

The IIE Women’s Business Center seeks to “level the playing field” for women entrepreneurs, who still face unique obstacles in the business world, by providing the tools for women to successfully own, operate and grow their small businesses.

Launchpad

A business incubator which provides mentorship and general support to emerging companies. Is affiliated with William and Mary University.

Catalyst

Catalyst is a long-format accelerator, providing select central Virginia-based, early-stage startups with nine months of program support.

Black Farmer Equity Fund

Foodcap is funding a more equitable and regenerative local food economy through mission-driven lending and customized business support. In 2021, we launched the Black Farmer Equity Initiative to formalize our work supporting Black farmers.

Virginia Highlands Small Business Incubator

The primary purpose of VHSBI is to encourage, enthuse and empower new and small businesses as tenants and non-tenants of the VHSBI facility and to ensure successful start-up and continued growth.

Virginia Startup

The mission of our team and partners is to connect you to entrepreneurial resources. Our team and partners are anxious to help you be successful.

Lighthouse Labs

This technology accelerator provides 3 months of mentorship and support to emerging technology companies. They also provide $20,000 grants to 12 to 20 promising technology companies per year.

Virginia Community Capital

Our lending team can find creative ways to bring your dreams to reality. VCC small business loans can help ensure your long-term success and goals.

Department of Small and Local Business Development

DSLBD offers several resources that can assist in your business growth and entreprenuerial journey.

Maryland Entrepreneur Hub

Find Resources. Connect with Businesses. Navigate the Ecosystem. From funding to talent sources and everything in between, explore over 2,000 resources to build your business in Maryland.

Baltimore Entrepreneurial Support

Entrepreneur Support Organizations – Explore the 200+ organizations dedicated to supporting startups, nonprofits, and small businesses in Baltimore.

Life Asset

Providing microloans and training to low-income entrepreneurs who are overlooked by traditional lenders and financial institutions.

Resource Guide for Montgomery County, MD

Resources for businesses in Montgomery County, MD including financing sources, partnership opportunities, and more.

Office of Veterans Business Development (OVBD)

The OVBD facilitates the use of all U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) programs by veterans, service-disabled veterans, reservists, active-duty service members, transitioning service members, and their dependents or survivors. OVBD oversees Veteran Business Outreach Centers (VBOC), which are designed to provide entrepreneurial development services such as business training, counseling and resource partner referrals. The SBA has 22 organizations participating in this cooperative agreement and serving as Veterans Business Outreach Centers (VBOC).

Office of Native American Affairs (ONAA)

The Office of Native American Affairs is part of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). Their mission is to ensure that American Indians, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians seeking to create, develop and expand small businesses have full access to the necessary business development and expansion tools available through the Agency’s entrepreneurial development, lending, and procurement programs. ONAA contracts with two companies to offer entrepreneurial empowerment workshops and free technical assistance.

SCORE

SCORE, the nation’s largest network of volunteer, expert business mentors, is dedicated to helping small businesses get off the ground, grow and achieve their goals. Since 1964, SCORE has provided education and mentorship to more than 11 million entrepreneurs. SCORE is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and a resource partner of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).

Small Business Development Centers (SBDC)

SBDCs are America’s nationwide network of Small Business Development Centers. A partner program of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), SBDCs are hosted by universities, colleges, state economic development agencies and private sector organizations. Their mission is to help start and grow small businesses.