Small Business Services Directory

Use the search fields below to find hundreds of organizations in New York City that can provide you with help in starting or running your small business. Included in this searchable database are programs which offer business advice, loans, grants, location assistance, and a wide range of other services for small businesses throughout the city — often at no cost or for a low fee.

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ITAC provides training and implementation expertise on a variety of topics that make companies  more competitive. They work with small and mid-size manufacturers throughout the five boroughs, and help them expand into new markets, create innovative products, develop their customer base, find new partners, improve their processes and develop sustainable practices. We are the NYC Chapter of the Manufacturing Extenson Partnership nationwide network.

ITAC's Technology Practice assists with product development and launch, finding additional funding, business plan development, and enabling partnerships with academic institutions. ITAC's Virtual Incubator Program (VIP) helps early stage manufacturers and technology firms to bring their products and processes to the next level. We also assist mature manufacturing firms to adopt technologis for their businesses, both off the shelf applications and new applications developed from existing technology.

Partnerships and individuals/sole proprietorships doing business under a name other than their own need a Doing Business As (DBA) Business Certificate. File a Business Certificate form with the Count Clerk's Office in the borough where your business is located.

LaGuardia Community College APEX Accelerators (LaGuardia APEX), formally known as Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC), asssists businesses in Queens and beyond market their goods and services to Federal, State and local governments.

LaGuardia APEX offers procurement technical assistance and training workshops to meet the needs of any sized business, including minority owned small business (MBE), disadvantaged owned business enterprise (DBE), service-disabled veteran owned small business/veteran owned small business (SDVOSB/VOSB), and women owned small businesses (WOSB).

 

If you run a business, LaGuardia Business Services has everything your company needs to grow and be successful. Our specialized programs provide business advisement and support services, government procurement assistance, access to capital and more to help entrepreneurs and small businesses grow and meet the needs of the rapidly changing business community as well as contribute to the local economy.

We also partner with employers large and small to customize training for current employees or design curricula that closes the workforce skills gap while matching our qualified students and alumni with the needs of businesses and organizations.

Check out the website for webinars and and workshops, small business training programs and workshops, and entrepreneurial assistance: https://www.laguardia.edu/ce/pages/business-services/home/

The Local Development Corporation of East New York [LDCENY] serves industrial and commercial businesses in the East New York and Brownsville communities. It manages the East Brooklyn Industrial Business Improvement District.  We empower low-to-moderate income women and minorities with programs that promote economic sufficiency, build assets and improve their lives and those of their families.  We work with local businesses to retain and build industry and commerce, create jobs and improve economic opportunities for local residents and neighborhood enterprise. Other programs under its management are the the New York State Empire Zones Program, which offers financial incentives to encourage businesses to invest, expand and create more jobs in the EZ, and the Women's Business Center. Services are available in Spanish and English.

 

Lower East Side People’s Federal Credit Union is a non-profit financial cooperative that was organized in 1986 that promotes economic justice and opportunity in NYC neighborhoods. We are owned by our members and dedicated to providing high-quality financial services and community development investments in low-income, immigrant,  and other underserved communities.

Financial services include accounts for individuals, businesses, loans, money markets, and many more.

 

Sweep workers clean commercial streets and clean offices for local businesses, merchant associations, and business improvement districts. Current sites include Newkirk Plaza, Cortelyou Road Merchants Association, and East Brooklyn Industrial BID. Some Project Sweep workers do messenger work or are trained as clerical/administrative workers. Workers are supervised by Job Coaches, who meet regularly in one-on-one meetings with workers, some of whom are developmentally disabled.

For information about becoming a Project Sweep worker, contact Jason Kellman, 718-376-0999 ext. 105. If you’re a merchant or employer and would like to hire a Project Sweep worker, contact Lucia Rivieccio, 718-376-0999 ext. 101.

 

The Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) is an entrepreneurship program under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Commerce, designed to increase jobs and wealth in minority communities. An upsurge in prosperity in minority communities tends to have a trickle-outward effect, essentially increasing profits for all businesses in the U.S. At ODA, our MBDA business center provides assistance to small, medium and large business enterprises. Our services include financing, consulting, procurement/contracts, registrations and certifications, and more.

Minority-owned firms seeking to penetrate new markets — domestic & global — and growing in size and scale, can access business experts at a MBDA Business Center. 

Our Manhattan MBDA Center supports the expansion of equitable business opportunities. Our outreach,advocacy and technical assistance services help minority-owned firms. We provide supportive services to assist MBE’s gain access to contracts, and capital - supporting the growth of small businesses allowing them to create and retain jobs. Operated by the Business Outreach Center Network Inc., BOCNET’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. At the heart of our mission is the belief that whatever their differences, people and communities share a common goal: to achieve economic stability and growth.

 

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