[Scpg] The Small Business Entrepreneurship Center (SBEC), Santa Barbara

[Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network]

http://www.smallbizentrepcntr.org/







The Small Business Entrepreneurship Center 
(SBEC), a non-profit community organization is 
providing an umbrella for and creating the Santa 
Maria Enterprise Center (SMEC) and the Santa 
Barbara Enterprise Center (SBEC) as well as the 
Green 2 Gold environmental and renewable energy 
technologies project - all new, enterprise, 
non-profit, mixed tech/ mixed use incubators.

The SBEC also hosts the Santa Barbara SCORE 
(Service Corp of Retired Executives, a program of 
U.S. SBA) with free monthly open counseling each 
Wednesday, 8:30am-11:30 am at SBEC location. 
Chairperson Steven Jones of Wilson Publishing and 
former president of the Goleta Chamber of 
Commerce says: "our role is to create more small 
businesses and help entrepreneurs create jobs and 
new wealth in our community by establishing new 
business incubators. This is a county wide effort 
to nurture entrepreneurship and provide 
resources, training, mentorship, and access to 
debt and equity capital for start-ups." The 
National Business Incubation Association (NBIA) 
has statistics that show an 87% success rate for 
new enterprises that go through business 
incubators.

SBEC also has a program for funding resources: 
"The Loan Guru " an ombudsperson for financing 
options, SBA guaranteed loans and other debt 
funding. In addition, the SBEC has access to 
equity or private "angel" and venture capital 
resources.

About Us

The SBEC works in collaboration with a number of 
institutions and has a strategic partnership with 
the non-profit Inventors Workshop International 
and the Entrepreneurs Workshop that has been 
featured on CNN, the Wall Street Journal, Oprah, 
and Good Morning America and is based in Santa 
Barbara. The SBEC has been raising funding and 
office equipment donations and gathering mentors 
and advisors to facilitate the incubator 
projects. The SBEC conducts, in partnership with 
several other institutions, monthly workshops in 
Santa Barbara, Santa Maria, and Ventura County.


402 E. Gutierrez St.
Santa Barbara CA 93101
Tel: 805 879 1729
Fax: 564 7188
Mail:
PO Box 285
Santa Barbara CA 93102
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