Programs and Services
The Entrepreneurial Training Center Relies on the establishment of an appropriate curriculum that is oriented to the successful graduation of business owners from the Centers entrepreneurial development program. The program is expected to produce an increasingly confident pool of entrepreneurs and managers who are aggressively working to expand the size and success of African American businesses operating to meet the unfilled market demands of the African American community. The One Stop Capital Shop Provides assistance in business plan development, secretarial support, training and education, sales and marketing assistance, accounting and bookkeeping services, equipment/furniture rental, personal resources and group insurance. The Economic Development and Technical Assistance Center Advises and counsel minority-owned micro-sized business owners on the feasibility of a business in the embryonic stages; assist businesses to seek and identify avenues for growth, and disseminate information to community leaders. The Center also works aggressively to expand capital available to African American entrepreneurs through financing sources that are new and innovative and/or not generally available to African Americans. This entity also attempts to improve accessibility to traditional financing mechanisms. There will be a revolving loan fund. 
The Incubator Brings start-up businesses for two years as clients and tenants within the Business Development Center. The expectation is that the businesses selected to be participants in the incubation program are entrepreneurs interested in providing innovative new products, services, or approaches to business within the African American Community ... Continue. For more information about the Business Development Center, call Christy Yusuf at 803-705-4781. If you don't have Adobe Acrobat Reader on your PC to read PDF documents, click on the following image to download it free to read the above documents. 
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