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Service Corps of Retired
Executives
Midlands Chapter
1835 Assembly Street, Room 1425
Columbia, SC 29201
803-765-5131
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SCORE
-- "Counselors to America's Small
Business" -- Provides no-fee mentoring and business COUNSELING AND LOW-COST
WORKSHOPS to prospective and established small business owners and managers on a
non-discriminatory equal opportunity basis. SCORE services are provided without regard to race, color, national origin,
gender, age, and disability.� Persons with disabilities may request reasonable
(special) accommodations (with a two-week advance notice).� For special
accommodations, please click on Contact Us above and make your request.���
COUNSELING
Counseling focuses on such business issues as developing a business plan, legal organization, financing,
accounting, marketing and selling, management and human resource issues, licensing, patent
protection, government reporting requirements, and many
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SCORE counselors are available daily at the Greater Columbia Chamber of Commerce (directly west of the Strom Thurmond federal building), 930 Richland Street (corner of Park and Richland Streets) in downtown Columbia. from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon and from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. from Monday to Friday by appointment for private, one-on-one confidential one hour free counseling sessions. Click Here for directions/map to Columbia Chamber of Commerce. Contact the individual branch offices listed below for counseling times outside Columbia. For counseling times in Columbia click directly below.
WORKSHOPS Low-Cost workshops for both start-up and existing buisness entrepreneurs. For access to a listing of the workshop descriptions, the workshop schedule, and the workshop registration form click on either of the two blue bottons below.
SBA AND SCORE SCORE Chapters are sponsored by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). For more information about SBA and their programs, click on www.sba.gov. The SCORE Midlands chapter is one of 389 chapters across the United States providing small business counseling and related services. For further information about the national SCORE organization, including chapters outside the Midlands of South Carolina, click on www.score.org.
MIDLANDS SCORE The Midlands chapter is headquartered in Columbia, SC and has branch offices in Camden, Chapin, Hartsville, Orangeburg, Florence, Lexington, and Sumter, SC. The Chapter and its branches are each associated with their community Chambers of Commerce that provide a variety of services to facilitate small businesses in their respective communities. The branch offices are:
Branch Phone
Number Branch Phone
Number If you would like a free counseling session at the Columbia Chamber's Northeast Office in the Village at Sandhill call the 803-765-5131 number and leave a message. In the message state your name, your phone number and that you would like a counseling session in the Village at Sandhill. A counselor will then return your call in a day or so to establish a meeting time that is mutually agreeable. The address for the Columbia Chamber's Northeast Office is 110-10 Forum Drive, Columbia, SC 29229 at the Village of Sandhill, off Clemson Road and is
located two doors down from the entrance to the Bi-Lo. Click here for other SCORE chapters/branches in the state of South Carolina. There may be one closer to you.
LOCAL BUSINESS LICENSING Click here to obtain information on Midlands SC business licensing
ONLINE INFORMATION SOURCES Click here for a listing of useful small business web sites.
MEMBER CHAPTER INFORMATION Click HERE to obtain Member Information including the member packages for the monthly meetings. Requires the member user name and password. Click HERE to submit Member Information to this web site including the member packages for the monthly meetings. Requires a special member information management user name and password.
WORKSHOP MANAGEMENT Click HERE for creating workshop Information. Requires special workshop managemant user name and password.
MIDLANDS SCORE RESOURCE PARTNERS
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