Orange County One-Stop (http://www.oconestop.com)
The Orange County One-Stop Centers provide free employment and training services, including a Resource Center with access to computers, fax machines, copiers, and telephones. Other services include a resume distribution program, a career resource library, labor market information, networking opportunities, job search workshops, on-site interviews with local employers, transferable skills information, job leads, and training programs. |
Small Business Administration (http://www.sba.gov/aboutsba/sbaprograms/sbdc/) .
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is an independent agency of the federal government to aid, counsel, assist and protect the interest of small business concerns, to preserve free competitive enterprise and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy and nation. The SBA helps start, build and grow businesses. Through an extensive network of field offices and partnerships with public and private organizations, SBA delivers its services to people throughout the United States. Click here to see the monthly schedule of classes offered through the SBA . |
California Labor & Workforce Development Agency (http://www.labor.ca.gov)
The California Labor & Workforce Development Agency seeks to improve access to employment and training programs and to ensure that California businesses and workers have a level playing field in which to compete and prosper. |
Santa Ana Regional Lead Small Business Development Center (http://www.leadsbdc.org)
The Santa Ana SBDC network is a leader in providing consulting, training, and technical assistance to the small business community. The SBDC program supports the growth and development of the Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino County economies by assisting in job creation and business expansion. The SBDC is funded in partnership with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), California State University, Fullerton, as well as host organizations throughout Santa Ana District. The Santa Ana District network offers clients free confidential business consulting services and low-cost training seminars. |
Orange County Small Business Development Center (http://www.ocsbdc.com)
The Orange County SBDC offers no charge, personalized business assistance in a confidential, one-on-one setting, and team business consulting. The center offers valuable, low-cost seminars that cover such important topics as access to capital, QuickBooks, employment law, marketing, government contracting, web technology, and writing a business plan, which is taught by the center’s professional business consultants and industry experts. |
SCORE: Counselors to America’s Small Business (http://www.score114.org)
SCORE is a nonprofit group composed of 11,200 volunteers who are successful entrepreneurs and executives. SCORE offers free and confidential advice to small businesses: face-to-face counseling, online counseling, online workshops and more. |
Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) (http://www.mbda.gov)
The Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) is part of the U.S. Department of Commerce and is the only federal agency created specifically to foster the establishment and growth of minority-owned businesses in America. Through a network of minority business centers and strategic partners, MBDA works with minority entrepreneurs who wish to grow their businesses in size, scale and capacity. These firms are then better positioned to create jobs, impact local economies and expand into national and global markets. MBDA has spent more than four decades increasing the competitiveness of minority firms. |
California Community College Economic Development Network (http://www.cccewd.net)
California Community College Economic Development Network provides technical assistance and training through the ED>Net program for large and small businesses. Areas of assistance include multimedia/entertainment initiatives, advanced transportation technology, applied competitive technologies, biotechnology, contract education, health care, environmental technology, international trade development, small business programs, and workplace learning. |
Institute for Women Entrpreneurs (IWE) (http://www.ociwe.org)
Institute for Women Entrepreneurs (IWE) ( http://www.ociwe.org )
The Institute for Women Entrepreneurs (IWE) is a non-profit business development program of the Rancho Santiago Community College District Foundation ( RSCCD )and is located in Santa Ana, California. The IWE, which is funded in part by the U.S. Small Business Administration’s ( SBA ) Office of Women's Business Ownership ( OWBO ),provides its clients with support needed to start and grow successful businesses. Their program is uniquely tailored to serve women entrepreneurs and provides quality services and innovative programs for the economic advancement of the under served Orange County community. The IWE offers a full range of services, workshops, seminars and multi-week courses that will assist in developing and refining business operation practices. |