| Resource | Description | Phone | Fax | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
The Abilities Fund |
The first and only nationwide community developer and financial institution targeted exclusively to advancing entrepreneurial opportunities for Americans with disabilities. Provides financial products, training, technical assistance services, and advisory supports to individuals with disabilities and the organizations that support them. | (866) 720-3863 | (319) 338-2528 | |
Florida Small Business Development
Center Network |
Serves as the statewide single point of contact for the advancement of an entrepreneurial environment; thus, creating a positive foundation for the development and growth of micro, small and medium enterprises in Florida. The Network's focus on the critical needs of businesses drives its direction and performance expectations. The Florida SBDC program is the most experienced economic development network serving Floridians statewide. | (850) 473-7800 | (850) 473-7813 | |
| The Able Trust 106 East College Avenue, Suite 820, Tallahassee, FL 32301 |
The Able Trust believes that when people with disabilities want to work, they should. The Trust supports individuals non-profit vocational rehabilitation programs throughout Florida with fund-raising, grant making and public awareness of disability issues. | (888) 838-2253 or (850) 224-4493 | info@abletrust.org | |
Bay County Small Business Incubator |
The Bay County Small Business Incubator (BCSBI) is a non-profit Small Business Incubator program established with a mission to give new and existing service and light manufacturing businesses the training and tools to become successful. | (850) 271-1107 |
(850) 271-1109 | bcsbi@knology.net |
Business and Emerging Technology
Accelerator BETA-1 |
BETA-1 creates 21st century companies in North Florida and South Georgia by licensing or assisting in developing technology, and applying it to commercial market opportunities. We also help entrepreneurs and new ventures to dramatically reduce the risk of building and growing their companies through access to experienced business and technical professionals with broad development expertise. | (904) 261-4334 | info@beta-1.com | |
Central Florida Community Development Corporation Inc. |
CFCDC will assist business clients with the development of an action plan to launch their business. | (386) 258-7520 | (386) 238-3428 | geraldc@cfcdc.com |
Collins Center for Public
Policy, Inc. |
The Collins Center uses its experience with various areas of government and business to provide clients with comprehensive consulting services. | (850) 219-0082 | (850) 219-0491 |
mpritchett@collinscenter.org |
Community Equity Investments,
Inc. |
CEII is a not-for-profit community development corporation (CDC) based in Pensacola, which provides a variety of small business lending, affordable housing and community development programs in Northwest Florida and Southern Alabama. |
(850) 595-6234 or (888) 605-2505 | (850) 595-5254 | ceii2234@aol.com |
Daytona Beach Enterprise Center |
CFCDC manages the Daytona Beach Enterprise Center for the city of Daytona Beach. | (904) 258-7520 | (904) 238-3428 | info@cfcdc.com |
Entrepreneurial Education Center |
The Center provides education and training to small and minority entrepreneurs in small business management. The Center also has a Small Business Development Center to provide one-on-one counseling to clients and a business library is also available. |
(305) 237-1900 | (305) 237-1908 | |
| The Entrepreneurial Institute, Florida Memorial
College Business Administration, 15800 NW 42nd Avenue, Miami, FL 33054 |
Program provides small business training and technical assistance to minority business owners and operators as recommended in the Metro-Miami Action Plan Trust. | (305) 626-3155 | (305) 626-3127 | |
| Fanm Ayisyen Nan Miyami, Inc. (FANM), W.O.W. (Women
out of Welfare) Program 710 NE 152 Street, North Miami Beach, FL 33162 |
Helps unemployed women with business skills start small businesses and become financially independent and eventually get off the welfare rolls. The rationale for the program is that when women have economic power, they invest in their children and their environment. | (305) 948-5690 | (305) 324-6785 | |
| FAAST, Inc.,
Florida Alliance for Assistive Services & Technology, Inc. 1020 East Lafayette Street, Suite 110, Tallahassee, Florida, 32301-4546 |
FAAST is designed to develop and implement a consumer responsive, comprehensive, statewide system of technology-related assistance and systems change for individuals from birth to death. |
(850) 487-3278 | ||
Florence Villa Community Development Corporation Micro-Loan Program |
Mission: Development of thriving economy and community base by creating business opportunity. | (941) 299-3263 | (941) 299-8134 | |
Florida Association for Micro-Enterprise
(FAME) |
(561) 742-1234 | (561) 733-4461 |
drlynna@aol.com | |
Florida Community Loan Fund, Inc. |
Florida has a rapidly growing low-income population whose needs far exceed the current capacity of the states nonprofit sector. The fund is a statewide development lending intermediary that provides affordable, flexible capital to community-based groups that work to support economic development, affordable housing, and social services. |
(407) 246-0846 | (407) 246-0856 | ignacio@fclf.org |
| Helps with continually updated links to web resources related to business startups. | ||||
Florida Small
Business Resource Page |
(305) 661-8503 | (305) 661-8621 | ||
Florida
State Telecommuting Program |
Telecommuting is a work arrangement whereby selected state employees are allowed to perform the normal duties and responsibilities of their positions through the use of computers or telecommunications, at home or another place apart from the employees' usual place of work. |
(850) 922-5449 | ||
Florida WWINS, Inc. |
(727) 723-7714 | groupsthat.work@gte.net | ||
| Jacksonville
Chamber of Commerce 3 Independent Drive Jacksonville, FL 32202 Phone: (904) 924-1100 Fax: (904) 924-1103 |
Mission: To establish an effective microloan program in the First Coast region that will provide loans, training, and technical assistance to low-income persons. |
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Lee County Economic
Development |
Provides incentives and programs for small businesses which locate or relocate in the area. | (800) 330-3161 or (239) 338-3161 | (239) 338-3227 | |
| Miami-Dade Department of Business Development 175 NW 1st Avenue, 28th Floor, Miami, FL 33128 |
Responsible for coordinating and implementing minority business enterprise activities. | (305) 349-5960 | (305) 349-5919 |