Entrepreneurship & Small Business

The AAFD seeks to serve the franchising community, promote that which is good and healthy, and excise that which is exploitative and unscrupulous.

ASBA is an advocacy group dedicated to protecting the interests of small business in public policy issues. Contains information on issues that affect small businesses, such as health care, taxation and technology, ideas for ways to get involved, and links for further reading.

The Office of Advocacy disseminates small business economic data and statistics to highlight their economic contributions and importance to policymakers. On this page are links to the main public datasets for assessing the small business economy.

Enactus is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring students to improve the world through entrepreneurial action.

Includes a small business encyclopedia with basic information and definitions on small business and entrepreneurship.

Includes resources and educational tools for entrepreneurs.

A Latino Business & Employment Magazine

The world’s oldest and largest organization representing franchising worldwide; mission is to protect, enhance and promote franchising through government relations, public relations and educational programs.

Offers in-depth measures of the people and businesses that contribute to America’s overall economic dynamism- Startup Activity, Main Street Entrepreneurship & Growth Entrepreneurship.

Latin Business Today’s core objective is to drive success of Hispanic business owners by addressing challenges with real solutions. This is accomplished with a “best and brightest” team of executives, 130 exemplary mentors and a nationally accomplished advisory board who Coach solutions for today’s rapidly changing market all with a Latino nuance.

MBDA is an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce that promotes the growth of minority-owned businesses through the mobilization and advancement of public and private sector programs, policy, and research.

NABOE provides educational opportunities with featured presentations of key importance to business owners. NABOE events target audiences of senior executives of privately held companies, a target business demographic that represents over 50% of our country’s GNP and is a major force in innovation and job creation.

The National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) propels women entrepreneurs into economic, social and political spheres of power worldwide.

NFIB is the voice of small business, advocating on behalf of America’s small and independent business owners, both in Washington, D.C., and in all 50 state capitals.

An SBDC conducts research, counsels and trains business people in managing, financing and operating small businesses, providing comprehensive information services and access to experts in a variety of fields. Each SBDC encourages unique local efforts to meet small business needs in its area. SBDCs develop and maintain partnerships among community organizations and agencies: local, state and federal, to provide a focal point for broad networks of public and private resources at the community level.

The Office of Native American Affairs 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.

The Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) is an advocacy and advisory office responsible for promoting the use of small, small disadvantaged, 8(a), women-owned, veteran-owned, service-disabled veteran-owned, and HUBZone small businesses within the U.S. Department of Commerce's (DOC) acquisition process.

Devoted exclusively to promoting veteran entrepreneurship, the OVBD facilitates the use of all SBA programs by veterans, service-disabled veterans, reservists, active-duty service members, transitioning service members, and their dependents or survivors.

The Office of Women’s Business Ownership’s mission is to enable and empower women entrepreneurs through advocacy, outreach, education and support.

Website from the U.S. Small Business Administration offering education resources and tools for entrepreneurs.

SCORE is a nonprofit association dedicated to entrepreneur education and the formation, growth and success of small business nationwide.

Learn the steps to start a small business, get financing help from the government, and more.

Web-based community of business owners and entrepreneurs who share advice and stimulate debate about business startups.

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