Resources

Business Planning & Operating Assistance

• ASSETS Lancaster "Improving Lives, Growing Success"
  Small business training program serving low and moderate income persons with a strong entrepreneurial spirit in Lancaster County, PA

• Duke Street Business Center at the Lancaster Public Library
  Assists you to find answers to your business and nonprofit-related questions

• Family Business Center at Elizabethtown College
  Assists family businesses with a special program of seminars that address and resolve succession, management, ownership, and strategic issues of family business

• Kutztown SBDC (Small Business Development Center)
• Lancaster Office SBDC
  Partially funded by the SBA, the SBDC provides free one-on-one business consulting and professional development seminars and workshops

• Lancaster Market Edge, a service of the Library System of Lancaster County
  Business information resources designed to support local businesses with free access to powerful tools to help them compete in the marketplace

• LancasterProspers Entrepreneur Resource Guide Serving the Innovative and Independent in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
  A list of various resources useful when starting or operating a business

• MANTEC (Industrial Resource Center)
  A private non-profit, independent resource center serving small-to-medium sized manufacturers in SouthCentral Pennsylvania.  MANTEC provides customized solutions for developing measurable results in productivity, profitability and competitiveness

• PPL LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) Certification Program Expanded
  PPL Electric Utilities has extended its LEED Certification Program in 2009 and expanded eligibility to include universities, hospitals, and other nonprofit organizations. The program is designed to cover the U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) registration fee and certification fees for design review, construction review, and initial certification review. Grants are subject to pre-approval and availability. For details visit the PPL Publications and Programs for Economic Development.

• SCORE Lancaster County, PA Chapter 16 "Counselors to America's Small Business"
  Retired, semi-retired and self-employed small business owners, managers of and within large and small businesses provide free, confidential business advice to help entrepreneurs build their businesses from idea to starup to success

• Small Business Administration (SBA) on YouTube, The recently launched SBA YouTube channel includes an introduction to the SBA and its programs and services, as well as a ten-part "Delivering Success" series co-produced with the U.S. Postal Service.  Expansion of the site will include more in-depth information about SBA programs, government contracting opportunities, exporting, how to start and grow a small business and small business success stories.