Pennsylvania

City of Philadelphia Business Services

The City of Philadelphia Business Services website contains valuable and user-friendly resources for knowing what’s needed in order to launch a variety of types of small businesses. The site contains excellent introductory info for those who are looking to write a business plan, familiarize themselves with business regulations in the city, and file all the appropriate tax and income forms when starting a business.

https://business.phila.gov/

City of Philadelphia-Department of Commerce

The Department of Commerce helps people plan, start, and run businesses in Philadelphia.

https://www.phila.gov/departments/department-of-commerce/supporting-business/

The Urban League of Philadelphia

The Urban League of Philadelphia, founded in 1917, has been assisting African Americans in the city with economic and social opportunity. The league provides critical social services and advocacy, but also contains an Entrepreneurship Center, which offers coaches and consultants to assist in areas such as sales, marketing, IT, strategic planning, and training for employees and other business services.

https://urbanleaguephila.org/what-we-do/entrepreneurship-center/

SBA-Eastern Pennsylvania District Office

Since its founding, the SBA has delivered millions of loans, loan guarantees, contracts, counseling sessions and other forms of assistance to small businesses.

https://www.sba.gov/offices/district/pa/king-of-prussia

SCORE-Philadelphia

The Mission of the Philadelphia Chapter of SCORE is to continue the traditions started by our forefathers by growing small businesses by helping entrepreneurs and existing businesses solve problems through mentoring and support programs.

https://philadelphia.score.org/

Pennsylvania MBDA Business Center

The MBDA Business Center of Pennsylvania, on a contract from the U.S. Department of Commerce, reports to be the region’s leader in minority business development. The Center has generated more than $290 million in contracts and financing, provides procurement assistance, and offers consulting services to business owners around topics, such as sales, taxes, and digital marketing.

https://theenterprisecenter.com/

The Enterprise Center

The MBE Equity Multiplier project will work with businesses at their current stage to navigate the equity investment process and ecosystem to increase access to equity and venture investment and investors. The equity project’s services include developing investment packages, reviewing financial reports, preparing pitch decks, advising businesses about the investment cycle, and facilitating connections with investors.

https://www.mbda.gov/business-center/grant-recipient-enterprise-center