Business owners and new entrepreneurs have the opportunity to enroll in our entrepreneurship program to help learn more about ways to improve their business or launch a new venture. The NWSI has partnered with the South Side Innovation Center and Onondaga Community College’s Small Business Development Center to provide entrepreneurial expertise for businesses in the program.

One of our partners, the South Side Innovation Center, already operates a successful micro-business incubator program. The model used by SSIC includes nurturing entrepreneurs from the very beginning through a discovery process where identify each individual’s unique strengths and weaknesses—play up the strengths, shore up the weaknesses through other programs such as credit repair, computer literacy or market research—and ends with helping the entrepreneur secure a micro-loan and start their business.

We have an additional partnership with OCC’s Small Business Development Center (SBDC), which has been assisting start-up and existing businesses since 1984. The SBDC staff advises business owners and start-ups in areas including business plan development, start-ups, organization structures, exporting, cost analysis, marketing, financial marketing, financial strategies, business expansion and research. SBDC aims to help business owners in their program make the most informed decisions relating to their businesses to help promote stability and growth as well as increase productivity and profitability. The New York SBDC is one of only a few SBDCs in the U.S. with a full-time business library with free services for New York SBDC clients.

To participate in the NWSI Entrepreneurship and Business Development Program, click here.