Valley Community Development’s Small Business Development Program provides a range of free services to meet the needs of low- and moderate-income individuals engaged in start-up and existing small businesses. Our program is designed to help you start, stabilize, and grow your business and is customized to meet your needs.
We offer one-on-one business assistance, from access to capital to sales and marketing, from record keeping to staffing, everything you need for your business to thrive. We also offer educational workshops to polish your skills and keep you ahead of the business curve. These workshops can also create a network of small business owners who can be your peers and mentors as you and your business grow.
Please fill out this form to be contacted by a small business consultant. Include a brief description of your situation and goals.
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Resources
Verizon Small Business Digital Ready – Free online curriculum on SEO, remote work, and credit. Learn more here.
Our program offers proactive support for all stages of entrepreneurs
Workshops
Our educational workshops are designed to facilitate growth, for yourself as a professional and for your business. Check out our upcoming workshops to stay informed on the fundamentals of running a business, and to connect with a network of local small business owners, peers, and mentors.
All of our small business workshops are offered at no cost!
One-to-One Business Assistance
We offer targeted one-to-one business assistance to enable you to increase revenues and profits by helping implement more effective marketing campaigns, to operate more efficiently, and to better manage finances. A different marketing strategy, a new product, a good hard look at your financials in order to make some business decisions? – We do all of that and more.
Bookkeeping Program
Is bookkeeping becoming one more business challenge on an already full plate?
Valley’s Bookkeeping Program is designed to help business owners learn the bookkeeping fundamentals while building systems they can manage confidently and independently.
Starting A Small Business
It’s exciting to be your own boss, but do you REALLY know what that means?
Maybe you have a new idea, a side hustle that you want to expand, or a passion for being your own boss – then we are here for you. For someone at these initial stages, we offer a monthly information session entitled Small Business Fundamentals. You’ll get a realistic idea of what it is like to start a small business from a professional who has first-hand experience.
Small Business Loan Program
Thinking of starting or growing your business, but can’t obtain traditional financing?
Valley’s new Small Business Loan Program provides flexible and easy access to the capital you need to jumpstart or support your business goals!
Our services are generously supported by Mass Development, the City of Northampton, the Town of Amherst, Florence Bank, M & T Bank, Greenfield Savings Bank, Greenfield Cooperative Bank, PeoplesBank, and TD Bank. Photos taken by Amy Crosby Photography, and Elizabeth Solaka Photography.