Small Business Week Hosts
Small Business Administration
- Contact:
- Gary Marshall
- Address:
- 455 Market Street, 6th Floor
- Phone:
- 415.744.6771
- Website:
- www.sba.gov
- Description:
- The Small Business Administration is the federal agency assisting entrepreneurs with financing, training and advocacy. In addition, the SBA works with thousands of lending, educational and training institutions nationwide to benefit businesses.
Small Business Development Center
- Contact:
- Al Dixon
- Address:
- 300 Montgomery Street, Suite 789
- Phone:
- 415.841.4051
- Website:
- www.sfsbdc.org
- Description:
- The San Francisco Small Business Development Center (SBDC) provides free, confidential one-on-one business counseling from professional consultants for existing and ready-to-launch businesses, low cost hands-on workshops and access-to-capital programs. This SBA funded program is a member of the Northern California SBDC network.
Golden Gate Restaurant Association (GGRA)
- Contact:
- Kevin Westlye
- Address:
- 120 Montgomery Street, Suite 1280
- Phone:
- 415.781.5348
- Website:
- www.ggra.org
- Description:
- A non-profit trade association representing the interests of the restaurant industry in the greater SF Bay area.
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
- Contact:
- Paula Zamudio
- Address:
- 235 Montgomery Street, 12th Floor
- Phone:
- 415.392.4520
- Website:
- www.sfchamber.com
- Description:
- The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce is recognized as the pre-eminent business organization for advocacy, networking and economic growth. The mission is to attract, develop and retain business in San Francisco.
Small Business Week Media Partners
Examiner
- Contact:
- Jim Pimentel and Lulu Feliciano
- Address:
- 450 Mission Street, 5th Floor
- Phone:
- 415.359.2600
- Website:
- www.Examiner.com
- Description:
- The San Francisco Examiner is the highest-circulated newspaper in San Francisco County. With outstanding coverage of local news, events, and activities, the Examiner is your daily guide to what’s happening in the Bay Area. Distributed free each day, the Examiner is delivering a new way of looking at newspapers. It’s Smarter, Faster and FREE.
Comcast
- Contact:
- Lorena Hernandez
- Address:
- 755 Sansome Street 6th Floor
- Phone:
- 800-Comcast
- Website:
- www.comcast.com/business
- Description:
- Comcast Business Class-Give your office the speed, security and know-how it needs online, coupled with advanced business phone and TV services. Visit Comcast’s site to learn more about Comcast Business Class High-Speed Internet, Business Digital Voice and Business TV for your business.
Small Business Week Sponsors
Wells Fargo
- Contact:
- Ben Krugman
- Address:
- 1 Montgomery Street, 19th Floor
- Phone:
- 415.623.7696
- Website:
- www.wellsfargo.com
- Description:
-
Wells Fargo is America’s #1 small business lender in total dollar volume according to the most recent Community Reinvestment Act and the #1 SBA 7a bank lender in total dollar volume. Wells Fargo has loaned close to $35 billion to women, African American, Latino and Asian business owners since 1995. For more information, speak with a Wells Fargo banker, visit www.wellsfargo.com/biz
Microsoft
- Contact:
- Suzanne Lavine
- Address:
- 835 Market Street, Suite 700
- Phone:
- 415.972.6434
- Website:
- www.microsoft.com
- Description:
- Small businesses need to get maximum impact from their technology budgets. Microsoft products help you do more with less by providing tools to improve productivity and reduce costs. Microsoft products also provide the tools to help you take better care of your customers, present a professional appearance and manage customer relationships more effectively.
Pacific Gas and Electric
- Contact:
- Ezra Garrett
- Address:
- 77 Beale Street
- Phone:
- 800.468.4743
- Website:
- www.pge.com/mybusiness
- Description:
- In 1976, PG&E became one of the first utilities in the nation to offer energy efficiency programs to our customers. And we’ve been a leader ever since.Using energy more efficiently is more than simply the right thing to do- it saves our customers money on their energy bills. It is also the fastest, most cost-effective way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat global climate change. In fact, over the past 30 years, PG&E and our customers have kept over 125 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the atmosphere.
Cisco
- Contact:
- Heather Isaacson
- Address:
- 210 Third Street
- Phone:
- 415.371.2350
- Website:
- www.cisco.com
- Description:
- Cisco and Linksys empower small businesses to stay small and operate like an enterprise. As the business owner, give yourself the ability to work from home, equip your sales force with the means to check voicemail via email, and give your customers the highest rate of satisfaction imaginable. We’re changing the way small businesses work, live, play and learn, and we welcome you to learn how.
IBM
- Contact:
- Gwyneth Borden
- Address:
- 425 Market Street
- Phone:
- 415.545.4516
- Website:
- www.ibm.com
- Description:
-
The SME toolkit is a new, complimentary online assistance and is now available for small businesses that want to start or grow their business. The site www.us.smetoolkit.org provides small businesses with advice on typical business practices and the tools to help, such as online calculators for financial readiness, complimentary software to build a website, business forms for human resources, exporting guidelines, online forums and multilingual business directories.
Golden Gate Disposal & Recycling
- Contact:
- John Legnitto and Stephanie Pavis
- Address:
- 900 7th Street
- Phone:
- 415.626.4000
- Website:
- www.Norcalwaste.com
www.Sfrecycling.com - Description:
- Waste, recycling and collection services.
Small Business Week Resource Partners
SCORE
- Contact:
- Norton Pearl and Barbara Bizani
- Address:
- 455 Market Street, 6th Floor
- Phone:
- 415.744.6827
- Website:
- www.sfscore.org
- Description:
- SCORE is a non-profit resource partner of the Small Business Administration dedicated to educating entrepreneurs. Our volunteers are working and retired business executives who provide free counseling and low cost workshops to help businesses get started and grow successfully.
LGBT Community Center / Golden Gate Business Association
- Contact:
- Ken Stram
- Address:
- 1800 Market Street
- Phone:
- 415.865.5515
- Website:
- www.sfcenter.org
- Description:
- We provide a range of services to help LGBT small businesses and entrepreneurs start, run and grow their small businesses. We offer free expert one-on-one counseling to address a full spectrum of business planning and marketing needs. Special emphasis is placed on providing strategic support with loans, loan packaging, and post-loan technical assistance. The Center also offers regularly held group workshops on a variety of marketing, business financing, sales, legal, human resources, and small business-related topics.The GGBA’s mission is to support the growth and visibility of LGBT and supportive businesses.
Office of Labor Standards Enforcement
- Contact:
- Rich Waller
- Address:
- Room 430, City Hall
- Phone:
- 415.554.6733
- Website:
- www.sfgov.org/olse
- Description:
- The Office of Labor Standards Enforcement (OLSE) enforces labor laws adopted by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and by San Francisco voters. OLSE ensures that public works contractors comply with prevailing wage regulations, enforces the Minimum Compensation Ordinance and Health Care Accountability Ordinance, and administers the City’s Sweatfree Contracting Ordinance. OLSE also enforces labor laws of general application, including the SF Minimum Wage Ordinance, Paid Sick Leave Ordinance and Health Care Security Ordinance.
La Cocina
- Contact:
- Caleb Zigas
- Address:
- 2948 Folsom Street
- Phone:
- 415.824.2729 x 303
- Website:
- www.lacocinasf.org
- Description:
- La Cocina provides commercial kitchen space and technical assistance to low-income entrepreneurs who are launching, growing and formalizing their food businesses.
Northern California Minority Business Enterprise Center
- Contact:
- Nora Jiao Li (Asian Inc.)
Alex Serrudo - Address:
- 1167 Mission Street
- Phone:
- 415.928.5910
- Website:
- www.norcalmbec.com
- Description:
- MBEC provides strategic business consulting, procurement assistance, financial services and certification application assistance.
Office of Small Business /
Office of Economic and Workforce Development
- Contact:
- Brajah Norris
- Address:
- Room 448, City Hall
1 Carlton B. Goodlett Place - Phone:
- 415.554.6143
- Website:
- www.sfgov.org/sbc
- Description:
- The Small Business Commission functions as the City’s central point of information and referral for entrepreneurs and small businesses located in San Francisco. By championing “business friendly” policies, marketing the contributions of the small business sector and developing appropriate assistance programs, the Small Business Commission and it’s Office of Small Business work to support and enhance an environment where small businesses can succeed and flourish.
Urban Solutions
- Contact:
- John Urquhart
- Address:
- 1083 Mission Street, 2nd Floor
- Phone:
- 415.553.4433
- Website:
- www.urbansolutionssf.org
- Description:
- Urban Solutions is an economic development non-profit organization whose mission is to foster the well-being of disadvantaged communities by helping to increase neighborhood commercial vitality, strengthen small businesses, create jobs and encourage diversity.
Women’s Initiative
- Contact:
- Julie Abrams
- Address:
- 1398 Valencia Street
- Phone:
- 415.641.3460
- Website:
- www.womensinitiative.org
- Description:
- Women’s Initiative for Self Employment provides a safe, supportive environment where high-potential, lower-income women can receive the help they need to start and grow their own businesses. We offer a 20 session business-training course, individual coaching and financing services in both English and Spanish. Women graduate with a business plan and the self-confidence to make it work. Women’s Initiative also offers on-going business support, matched saving program and micro-loans to graduates.
Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center
- Contact:
- Jill Winkelstein
- Address:
- 275 5th Street
- Phone:
- 415.348.6220
- Website:
- www.rencenter.org
- Description:
- Renaissance is San Francisco’s oldest small business development organization. We provide comprehensive services to meet the needs of women and men, small business owners and micro-entrepreneurs at all stages of their business development from startup to launch and growth.
Mission Economic Development Agency
- Contact:
- Dairo Romero
- Address:
- 3505 20th Street
- Phone:
- 415.282.3334 x 25
- Website:
- www.medasf.org
- Description:
- Since 1973, the Mission Economic Development Agency has been dedicated to improving the economic and social conditions of San Francisco’s immigrants and working class families with an emphasis on the Latino community and the Mission and Excelsior districts.
Office of Contract Administration
- Contact:
- Lynn Khaw
- Address:
- City Hall, Room 430
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlet Place - Phone:
- 415.554.6296
- Website:
- www.sfgov.org/oca
- Description:
- The Office of Contract Administration/Purchasing of the City and County of San Francisco supports the procurement of the material, equipment, and services that are essential to providing governmental services for the citizens of San Francisco. The contracting and procurement services that Purchasing provides, support the operations of the City departments who provide services to the public.
Mayor’s Office of Community Development (MOCD)
- Contact:
- Christina Garcia
- Address:
- 1 So. Van Ness Ave., 5th Floor
- Phone:
- 415.701.5559
- Website:
- www.sfgov.org/mocd
- Description:
- MOCD contracts with local Economic Development organizations to provide technical assistance, training and loan packaging services for small businesses. In addition to grants, MOCD administers the Small Business Loan Program that provides start-up and existing small businesses with loans that can be used for a number of purposes, including working capital, equipment purchase and other business expansion activities.
Northeast Community Federal Credit Union
- Contact:
- Lily Lo
- Address:
- 683 Clay Street
- Phone:
- 415.434.0738
- Website:
- www.necfcu.org
- Description:
- Targets low-income and unbanked individuals with their banking needs. One-stop services ranging from registering the Company to writing business plans and applying for loans.
Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE)
- Contact:
- Ann Bartz
- Address:
- 165 11th St.
- Phone:
- 415.255.1108 x 105
- Website:
- www.livingeconomies.org
- Description:
- BALLE works with communities around the US and Canada, organizing small and medium-sized businesses into networks to green and strengthen their local economies. Since its founding in 2001, the network has grown rapidly; in the last two years it has tripled in size to nearly 60 networks and become increasingly influential in the world of sustainable business and economic development.
San Francisco Locally Owned Merchant Alliance (SFLOMA)
- Contact:
- Hut Landon
- Address:
- 1007 General Kennedy Avenue
- Phone:
- 415.561.7687
- Website:
- www.sfloma.org
- Description:
- SFLOMA identifies and promotes locally owned independent businesses. Our goal is to educate and inform residents of and visitors to San Francisco of the positive economic value on the community and the value to the individual of shopping an independent retailers first.
Entertainment Commission
- Contact:
- Bob Davis and Jocelyn Kane
- Address:
- City Hall, Room 453
1 Carlton B. Goodlet Place - Phone:
- 415.554.5793
- Website:
- www.sfgov.org/entertainment
- Description:
- A seven member Commission established in 2003, the Entertainment Commission has the powers and duties to accept, review, gather information regarding and conduct hearings for entertainment-related permit applications. Additionally, the Entertainment Commission plans and coordinates the provision of City services for major events for which there is no recognized organizer, promoter, or sponsor.
Human Rights Commission (HRC)
- Contact:
- Deborah Lucero
- Address:
- 25 Van Ness, Suite 800
- Phone:
- 415.252.2500
- Website:
- www.hrc.info@sfgov.org
- Description:
- The HRC works to provide leadership and advocacy to secure, protect and promote human rights for all people.
Office of Economic and Workforce Development (OEWD)
- Address:
- City Hall, Room 448
1 Carlton B. Goodlett Place - Phone:
- 415.554.6969
- Website:
- www.oewd@sfgov.org
- Description:
- OEWD supports the ongoing economic vitality of San Francisco. Under the direction of Mayor Gavin Newsom, OEWD provides city-wide leadership for workforce development, business attraction and retention, neighborhood commercial revitalization, international business and development planning. OEWD’s programs are responsible for strengthening San Francisco’s many diverse neighborhoods and commercial corridors, creating a business climate where companies can grow and prosper and ensuring a continually high quality of life for all San Franciscans.
South East Asian Community Center
- Contact:
- Richard Wada
- Address:
- 875 O’Farrell Street
- Phone:
- 415.885.2743
- Website:
- www.seacc.us
- Description:
- The HRC works to provide leadership and advocacy to secure, protect and promote human rights for all people.
Department of the Environment
- Contact:
- Sunshine Swinford-Devries
- Address:
- 11 Grove Street
- Phone:
- 415.355.3700
- Website:
- www.environment@sfgov.org
- Description:
- The Department of the Environment has a Green Business Program. Any business can become a green business-and the city would like to help that process along. To qualify, a business must comply with all applicable federal, state and local regulations and meet program criteria for conserving resources, preventing pollution, and minimizing waste.Free to all local businesses, the program offers hands-on support, training and technical assistance from environmental experts.
San Francisco Council of District Merchants Association
- Contact:
- Jim Maxwell
- Address:
- 3444 Broderick
- Phone:
- 415.441.0848
- Website:
- www.sanfranciscomerchants.com
- Description:
- The Council is dedicated to the promotion, preservation and enhancement of San Francisco’s Business Community. The Council brings together nearly twenty diverse neighborhood business organizations, giving small business owners a broad base of support. By combining our resources we create strength through unity. The Council provides for a strong, clear voice at City Hall. As a co-host of San Francisco’s Small Business Week, we help to celebrate the success of small business-the very backbone of San Francisco’s economy.