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.

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.

Microloan Boston – A loan pool designed to support eligible entrepreneurs and existing small business with their working capital needs, such as inventory and leasehold improvements.

Partners with Nonprofits – Provides matching grants up to $25,000 to help nonprofit organizations enhance the infrastructure of facilities that serve the immediate community.

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.  

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

Nuestra Culinary Ventures

SCORE

U.S. Small Business Administration

Transactional Law Clinics of Harvard Law School