ABOUT WILKES UNIVERSITY SBDC
Helping businesses start, grow, and prosper.
EMPOWERING SMALL BUSINESSES
The Wilkes University Small Business Development Center aims to empower small businesses throughout our area.
OUR MISSION
Empower entrepreneurs and small business owners with the knowledge they need to start, grow and prosper.
OUR VISION
Our work will have a positive, transformational, and lasting impact on aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners.
HOW WILKES UNIVERSITY SBDC CAN ASSIST YOU
No-Cost, Confidential Consulting Services
The Wilkes University Small Business Development Center (SBDC) is dedicated to helping you start and grow your business. We provide confidential consulting and market and industry research to help aspiring and existing small businesses make sound decisions for successful operations.
No-Cost and Low-Cost Business Training
The SBDC also offers a comprehensive range of training courses and programs. Our in-person and online courses offer an excellent way to work training into your busy schedule. Our professional development sessions will not only provide you with invaluable knowledge, but by sharing ideas and issues with entrepreneurs with similar experiences, you will also have the opportunity to establish beneficial professional relationships.
Wilkes University SBDC Team
OUR GOALS
Grow Our Markets
- develop pipelines for financial deals, growth clients, and high impact start-ups
- nurture businesses within strategically targeted growing and emerging industries
Continuously Improve
- advance as a well-managed, functionally integrated, programmatically and administratively compliant statewide organization
- increase sources of additional organizational funding
- don’t stop thinking about tomorrow
Build Economically Vibrant Communities
- create meaningful new partnerships with relevant stakeholders and leverage those relationships to provide better client service
- assist entrepreneurs in starting and growing businesses
Provide Proven, Trustworthy Advice
- expand the delivery and marketing of our consulting and training services, paying attention to people and communities where we can make a positive impact