Community First Resources

• Small Business
• Financiamiento para su Pequeno Negocio
• Affordable Housing
• Commercial Real Estate

Entrepreneur’s Resource Guide:

• Chapter 1: Starting Your Business
• Chapter 2: Financing Your Business
• Chapter 3: Marketing Your Business

Keep checking for more chapters to help grow your business!

How to: Your Business

As a guide to your business needs, this blog answers questions on business development and promotion.  To suggest new topics email info@commfirstfund.org, subject: How to: Your Business.

• Bizwomen.com
• Business Woman
• Center for Women’s Business Research
• Enterprising Women
• National Association of Women Business Owners
• National Women’s Business Council
• Online Women’s Business Center
• Pennsylvania Governor’s Conference for Women
• U.S. Census Bureau
• Womenable
• Women’s Business Enterprise National Council
• Women’s Education Center
• Women Entrepreneurs, Inc.

Industry Information — CDFIs and Microfinance

• Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) Fund
• Grameen Bank
• Hope International

 Regional Business Resources

• Assets Lancaster
• Central Pennsylvania Chambers of Commerce
• Central Pennsylvania Economic Development Corporations
• Community Action Commission
• Community Action Development Commission of Montgomery County
• Community Action Committee of the Lehigh Valley
• Kutztown University Small Business Development Center
• Score Lancaster
• Shippensburg Small Business Development Center
• Susquehanna Sustainable Business Network

Business Resources
(websites)

• All Business
• AnnualCreditReport.com
• Association for Enterprise Opportunity
• Business Know-How
• Center for Business Planning
• Entrepreneur Magazine
• National Association for the Self-Employed
• Opportunity Finance Network
• Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development
• Pennsylvania Open for Business
• SCORE
• Small Business Administration
• USDA Rural Development PA