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.

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 U.S. Commercial Service for New York is one of 100 offices around the United States offering trade expertise to assist with exporting and providing guidance and tips on how to grow your business and export successfully. The Service is part of a global network of experienced trade professionals in the United States - and in American embassies and Consulates - with resources, market information, and international buyer connections.

These loans are for small business formation and/or expansion to create local wealth and economic vitality for Upper Manhattan. These loans may be senior or subordinated financing, depending on other sources of capital for the project, and are set at below-market fixed interest rates, with flexible maturity terms based on the cash flows, job generation, and level of collateral for the project. 

 

These are real estate secured loans for large commercial development projects that can serve as catalysts for job creation and transform the physical landscape of our community. The Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation (UMEZ), provides subordinated debt financing on flexible terms; sizing is based on the level of jobs created and overall economic return for the project. Loans may be used for construction financing. Preference is given to projects where a senior lender has already been identified for the project.

 

The Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation (UMEZ) offers strategic start-up and/or growth business loans to qualified Upper Manhattan businesses to help them meet their working capital needs. They offer Microloans between $10,000 and $50,000, Lines of Credit between $25,000 and $100,000, and Term Loans between $50,000 and $250,000. For more loans and requirements information, check the website.  

Our mission is to sustain the economic revitalization of all communities in Upper Manhattan through job creation, corporate alliances, strategic investments, and small business assistance.

UMEZ facilitates economic development in the neighborhoods of Central, West, and East Harlem; Washington Heights; and Inwood.  It focuses on workforce development programs aligned directly with employment opportunities, support for cultural programs and organizational development.

UMEZ provides loan capital from $1 million to $10 million to projects that provide new job creation and substantial economic growth in Upper Manhattan. We are typically a subordinate loan that augments (or “gap funds”) the amount of private capital to create a stronger capital structure for the project. 

Our loans generally fall into two categories:  

 COMMERCIAL BUSINESS LOANS: These loans are aimed at small business formation and/or expansion to create local wealth and economic vitality for Upper Manhattan. These loans may be senior or subordinated financing, depending on other sources of capital for the project, and are set at below-market fixed interest rates, with flexible maturity terms based on the cash flows, job generation, and level of collateral for the project.

COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT LOANS: These are real estate secured loans for large commercial development projects that can serve as catalysts for job creation and transform the physical landscape of our community. UMEZ provides subordinated debt financing on flexible terms; sizing is based on the level of jobs created and overall economic return for the project. Loans may be used for construction and/or mini-permanent financing. Preference is given to projects where a senior lender has already been identified for the project.

We also give Business Loans, Small Business Loans, Cultural Investments, Workforce Development Microloans.

Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (VLA), is the leading legal aid and education organization dedicated to New York artists and its arts and cultural organizations. VLA strives to protect the artistic community’s livelihoods, businesses, and creative works through access to dedicated legal representation and focused education programs.

VLA provides legal services to the arts community in every discipline, including: acting, animation, architectural design, bookmaking, choreography, composition, computer design, costume design, craft and folk arts, dance, directing, fashion, film, graphic design, installation art, literary arts, modeling, multimedia, music, photography, playwriting, poetry, printmaking, screenwriting, songwriting, theater, three-dimensional design, video arts, video game design, visual arts, and web design.

WHIDC has been operates a year-round street vendors market at La Plaza De Las Americas on 175th Street between Wadsworth Avenue and Broadway.  The plaza serves as a micro-business incubator for btween 20 and 50 individuals.

WHIDC’s Business Operating Success System (BOSS) provides small business loans to local entrepreneurs who may have limited educational backgrounds or who struggle with language barriers. 

WHIDC provides business development services to home and center based child care providers in Upper Manhattan. The program includes classroom training in Spanish in child care continuing education, marketing, accounting and general business.

WHIDC’s Business Operating Success System (B.O.$.$.) provides one-on-one business development assistance to entrepreneurs and micro-businesses in Upper Manhattan and the Western Bronx. Via the B.O.$.$. micro business development program businesses can discover which financial product is ideal for them.  They are provided with FREE assistance in applying for various loan and grant options, including federal, state, municipal, and private funding.

 

WBEC Metro NY is a dynamic community of certified women-owned businesses, building on their success through mutually beneficial partnerships with Fortune 1000 corporations and other WBEs.

Furthering the success of women-owned businesses is WBEC's  primary mission. We provide WBENC certification at the regional level, and serve as an advocate for certified women-owned businesses inWBEC's New York and Washington, D.C. regions, offering them educational programs, networking opportunities and recognition.

WHEDco is a community development organization based in the South Bronx. WHEDco helps individuals launch and operate small businesses through Home-Based Childcare programs and Commercial Revitalization Initiative, with training resources and programs that support economic stability.

WHEDco helps women build and grow successful home-based childcare businesses throughout the city, while improving the quality of childcare available to New Yorkers. WHEDco's Home-based Child Care Training Institue offers all childcare providers -whether they're licensed, registered, or legally exempt- comprehensive professional development training and licensing assistance so they can improve the quality of care they provide, increase their revenues, and grow their existing businesses.

Commercial Revitalization: WHEDco works to support small businesses along commercial corridors in the South Bronx. These businesses provide economic opportunities for local entrepreneurs and enable residents to shop their own neighborhoods. WHEDco services include connecting small business owners and entrepereneurs to no-cost and low-cost services to help their businesses thrive and attracting new businesses to vacant storefronts.

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