Programs and Services
Small Business Assistance
Boston Small Business Resource Guide - A guide designed to help business owners navigate the process of starting, expanding, or relocating a business. Â
Neighborhood Restaurant Initiative – Designed to provide restaurants with a variety of targeted resources ranging from business development, to licensing and permitting assistance, to marketing and design.
ReStore Boston – Designed to assist neighborhood business and property owners with storefront improvements with professional design services, signage, security measures, and general repairs.
Economic Development
Boston Buying Power – A cost-saving initiative that allows small businesses to purchase energy at a long-term fixed price through access to the deregulated energy market.
Boston Community Change – A neighborhood-based customer loyalty program that allows you to Shop Locally, Share Locally.
Boston Invests in Growth – A loan pool designed to jumpstart well-financed construction projects, create jobs, and strengthen Boston’s economy.
Partners with Nonprofits – Provides matching grants up to $25,000 to help nonprofit organizations enhance the infrastructure of facilities that serve the immediate community.
Other Resources
Boston Local Development Corporation– Provides loans of up to $150,000 for existing businesses or to those relocating to the City of Boston.
Boston Industrial Development Financing Authority – Issues bonds to finance the capital needs of Boston businesses and institutions.
Boston Connnects, Inc. / Empowerment Zone – a 5.8 square mile area of Boston designated by the federal government to ensure responsible development and sustained community revitalization in areas that have experienced years chronic divestment. Â
Useful Links
ACCION USA
Boston Public Library - Kirstein Business Branch
Center for Women & Enterprise
Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation
The Insurance Partnership
Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation
Massachusetts Small Business Development Center Network
SOMWBA - State Office of Minority and Women Business Assistance
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U.S. Small Business Administration
Transactional Law Clinics of Harvard Law School

