Small Business Development Center

Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College's Small Business Development Center (SBDC), one of 14 centers statewide, is a member of theWest Virginia Small Business Development Center Program, made possible through a cooperative venture among Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College, the West Virginia Development Office and the U. S. Small Business Administration.

The SBDC promotes economic development in a five-county region in the southern West Virginia coalfields through a through a program of practical, inter-related services, providing free assistance to existing small businesses and the emerging entrepreneur. The aim of the SBDC is to increase entrepreneurial success by focusing business efforts on planning, market development, and appropriate financing.

This assistance includes a variety of services such as:

• Confidential, one-to-one business consulting
• Start-up workshops
• Problem solving and assistance for existing business
• Business start-up assistance
• Loan packaging
• Training grants through the Small Business Work Force
• Small business training
• Small group seminars

If you need financial help and/or consulting, then you have come to the right place. Southern's SBDC consists of two offices, strategically placed at the following locations. Special accommodations for the disabled can be made by contacting the SBDC at least two weeks in advance.

• Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College
  Logan Downtown Annex, 300 Main Street, Logan, WV
  Harold Patterson, Business Analyst
  Phone: 304.792.7234 X27
  E-mail: hpatterson@frontier.net
• Keystone City Hall P.O. Box 85, Northfork, WV 24868
  Harold Patterson, Business Analyst
  Phone: 304.862-3144 X240
  E-mail: hpatterson@frontiernet.net

   

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SBA's funding is not an endorsement of any products, opinions, or services. All SBA-funded programs are extended to the public on a nondiscriminatory basis.