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Owning a business is fun - and can be challenging too. That's why over 600 business owners a year access CenterPoint's resources and consulting services to help them achieve their business goals.
CenterPoint was designed around the needs of business owners so you can use it as your primary resource for business success, with the area's best business services under one roof, provided to you free of charge.
CenterPoint helps businesses at all different stages of growth and development - pre-start; early stage; rapid growth; growth; maturity and exit. We help to find financing, help with developing plans, creating strategy, expanding your markets internationally or with sales to government - we provide:
- FREE expert consulting and business assistance at one of our specialist centers - the Entrepreneurial Center, the Global Trade Center or the Small Business Development Center. Confused about what is best for you? Get started by completing the needs assessment form.
- FREE help in obtaining small business financing using partners such as local and national banks; venture capital corporations; CenterPoint 504; Southland Community Development Corporation. For more information access the financing information from the sidebar.
- FREE access to valuable information and market research data from local national and international sources.
- RELEVANT low-cost seminars and training programs on hot topics presented by experts in the field the people who do it. To check our current program and reserve your seat hit seminars on the sidebar or sign up for our newsletter.
Many of the area's most well-known and profitable businesses worked
with us to help get their plans off the ground. CenterPoint's clients include:
We are a unique collaboration between Governors State University, the Illinois Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity (DCEO), the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), and Service Corp. of Retired Executives (SCORE).
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