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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The NYC Department of Small Business Services (SBS) APEX Accelerator (NYC SBS APEX Accelerator) offers one-on-one assistance and training to help businesses in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and Rockland, Suffolk, and Nassau counties that are interested in local, state, and federal government contracting.

Services include:  Government Contracting, Navigating the System for Award Management (SAM), Certifications and Contracting Assistance Programs, Doing Business with General Services Administration (GSA), Contract Accounting, Identifying Prime and Subcontractor Opportunities, Responding to RFPs/Proposal Writing, Teaming Arrangements and Subcontracting. 

For additional resources, click here: https://www.nyc.gov/site/sbs/businesses/ptac-resources.page 

Chamber On-the-Go is a mobile business support program that helps New York City small business owners like you access free services without leaving your storefront. This is in partnership with the following Chambers of Commerce:

  • Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce
  • Bronx Chamber of Commerce
  • Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation (BOEDC)
  • Manhattan Chamber of Commerce
  • New York Women's Chamber of Commerce
  • Queens Chamber of Commerce
  • Staten Island Chamber of Commerce

For more information, go to: https://www.nyc.gov/nycbusiness/article/chamber-on-the-go

The Locally-Based Enterprise (LBE) Certification Program works to ensure that firms, regardless of the gender or ethnicity of the owner, doing business in economically deprived areas of the City or employing economically disadvantaged persons, receive no less than 10% of subcontracting opportunities on construction and construction-related contracts directly awarded by the City to contractors.

Certified businesses obtain greater access to, and information about, contracting opportunities through classes, networking events, and targeted solicitations. They receive technical assistance to better compete for contracts and benefit from inclusion in the City's ONLINE DIRECTORY OF CERTIFIED BUSINESSES. The directory promotes LBE businesses to purchasers.

 

The NYC Small Business Opportunity Fund serves all NYC-based small businesses, including:

  • Businesses located in low- and moderate-income (LMI) communities
  • Woman-owned businesses
  • BIPOC-owned businesses
  • Immigrant business owners
  • New start-ups or early-stage businesses with less than two years of revenue
  • Rebuilding and recovering businesses

If you’re an NYC-based business – a startup, growth-stage, or needing a boost after the pandemic – the NYC Small Business Opportunity Fund is a trusted, affordable way to invest in your business.

  • No minimum credit score required
  • Loans up to $250,000 at 4% fixed interest rate
  • Free business support
  • Easy to apply
  • No application fee

To apply, go to: https://sbsopportunityfund.nyc/get-started/

The NYC Small Business Resource Network is a comprehensive approach to strengthening New York City’s economy and assisting small businesses. The Network was built to support small business resiliency by offering personalized guidance as small businesses open and reopen. The Network leverages its relationships with the city's corporate, financial and professional services sectors, as well as universities, philanthropies and expert volunteers to help small business owners gain access to a range of programs and servies. The Network was launched with a multi-year grant from the Peter G. Peterson Foundtion. Additional funding is provided by the New York Cty Economic Development Corporation and in-kind contributions from other partners.

For additional information contact your local Chamber of Commerce:

 

NYCEDC is a nonprofit organization whose work is organized around four main areas of focus:

  • Investing in neighborhoods to address longstanding community needs
  • Building a more sustainable city to meet the challenges of climate change
  • Creating workforce development opportunities to help New Yorkers succeed in 21st century industries
  • Advancing the growth of both startups and established companies to ensure New York City's competitive edge

The Business Development team offers a range of services designed to help you hit the ground running in NYC:

  • Site selection support, including to over 64M square feet of property directly managed by NYCEDC that can be leased below-market
  • Access to talent and workforce development consultation to help you build your talent and recruiting pipeline in NYC
  • Financial incentives analysis
  • Access to economic data, custom data requests, and wayfindings for companies doing location analyses
  • City and state agency navigation
  • Comparative market analysis
  • Ecosystem connections to industry associations, local chambers of commerce, and business improvement districts (BIDS)
  • Targeted industry programs like CyberNYC and LifeSci NYC
  • Connections to over 50 City, state, and federal finance solutions and incentives for nearly every sector
  • International trade support through connections to international trade organizations

Check out your own borough for specific projects.

New York City Industrial Development Agency (NYCIDA) supports business growth, relocation, and expansion across the five boroughs by lowering the cost of capital investment. NYCIDA’s tax incentive programs bolster the local economy, create jobs for New Yorkers, and uphold the city’s position as a global business hub. The program can help you lower your project costs if you are planning to purchase, build, or renovate industrial property in New York City. Benefits include: property tax abatement, reduction of mortgage recording tax applicable to a project mortgage, and City and State sales tax waiver or purchases of equipment and materials related to construction.

In 2013, NYCEDC and CFDA launched the FMI’s Grant Fund to provide local production facilities with funding for equipment and technology upgrades, employees skills training, business development consultants, capital improvements to their facilities, and relocation costs in New York City. FMI has also included business development opportunities for grant recipients, such as subsidized industry trade show participation, CFDA designer Open Houses and consumer-focused retail partnerships merchandising NYC designed and made apparel to a global audience. The initiative also seeks to encourage and motivate emerging and established designers to produce in New York City, strengthening the value proposition and consumer demand for locally manufactured products to a U.S.-based and global audience.

The OSDBU - and its Directors Council - shares information among its members to help promote best practices of small businesses obtaining government contracts. The OSDBU ensures that federal agencies and prime vendors comply with laws and regulations to promote small business concerns in selling goods and services in the government. Their goal is have all small businesses be aware of federal government contracting opportunities, know the rules and regulations re obtaining contracts, to advocate for all federal agencies to be compliant with these rules and regulations, and to open the door to small business concerns. Each federal agency has an OSDBU office. Visit their website for more detailed agency contact information.

 

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