The goal of the Center is to stimulate and support private and public entrepreneurship development in communities throughout rural America.

National Dialogue on Entrepreneurship (NDE) helps improve awareness of the value of entrepreneurship through informing and engaging national, regional and local policymakers. NDE produces a weekly newsletter that provides short summaries and analyses of various trends driving the innovation economy.

BizMiner provides business planning and research services and includes a section on free resources to help understand industry trends.

IBM and IFC created a free, small business toolkit specifically for women and minority entrepreneurs to provide business information, tools and training services usually reserved for Fortune 1000 companies.

The Veterans Corporation hosts a business portal for current and prospective Veteran business owners and for companies working with Veteran-owned businesses.

Businessfinance offers free business funding resources and has a database of over 4,000 sources of business capital.

Business owners and non-profit administrators can quickly evaluate their Key Performance Indicators and discover how they compare to up to 80,000 other companies using this free, confidential analysis tool.

NCEO is a private, nonprofit membership and research organization that serves as the leading source of information on employee stock ownership plans.

The official resource to help businesses quickly find compliance information, forms and contacts from multiple U.S. government Web sites.

This site lists statistics from more than 100 government agencies, useful when conducting market research.

Fedmarket.com offers free content including a “how-to” guide to small businesses interested in entering the federal marketplace. Fedmarket.com also provides products, services and federal sales training to small businesses.

The IRS Web site offers a broad range of products, services and resources to educate and assist small business owners and self-employed professionals.

This site allows employers to process their W-2s for their employees. The process requires no special software.

Department of Commerce offers information on foreign markets and international trade. Commerce also monitors and enforces compliance with U.S. trade laws and agreements.

BLS is an agency for the Federal Government that produces labor economic data and statistics.

This site contains everything you need to know about patents and trademarks.

The SBA provides financial, technical and management assistance to help Americans start, run and grow their businesses.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the world's largest business federation representing more than 3 million businesses of all sizes, sectors, and regions. It includes hundreds of associations, thousands of local chambers, and more than 100 American Chambers of Commerce in 91 countries

The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections.

Welcome to "Ask the White House". This online interactive forum, the first of its kind in politics, allows you to interact with Bush administration officials and friends of the White House. Launched in April 2003, citizens have participated in over 400 online discussions with Cabinet Secretaries, Senior White House Officials, behind-the-scenes professionals at the White House, and others.

GSA acts as a catalyst for nearly $51 billion in federal spending—approximately 10% of the government's total procurement dollars. The agency manages federal assets valued at nearly $75 billion.

The NCC responds to thousands of government information requests every business day, either providing the information directly or locating the source of assistance for the caller.

The BBB promotes integrity and business ethics through self-regulation in the marketplace. Services provided by the BBB include a 24-Hour automated telephone inquiry service, which provides reliability reports on companies and charitable organizations.

TreasuryDirect is the only financial services website that lets you buy and redeem securities directly from the U.S. Department of the Treasury in electronic form backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government.

SCORE "Counselors to America's Small Business" is a nonprofit association dedicated to educating entrepreneurs and the formation, growth and success of small business nationwide. SCORE is a resource partner with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).

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