BOC Network (Business Outreach Center) - Central Office
Community. Diversity. Opportunity.
The Business Outreach Center (BOC) Network is a micro-enterprise/small business development organization with over a decade-long record of delivering customized business services to under-served entrepreneurs in New York City and, more recently, in Newark, New Jersey, as well as capacity-building services to organizations establishing and operating community and micro-enterprise development programs.
Innovative and collaborative, the BOC Network works to close the credit and technical-assistance gap limiting the growth potential and job-creation capacities of microentrepreneurs and small businesses—of hard-working men and women who operate in isolation from the mainstream market and whose businesses are an important source of jobs in their largely minority and immigrant communities. By stimulating the growth of profitable enterprises, the BOC Network helps to recirculate capital through neighborhood economies, and so to revitalize whole communities.
Individually and in concert, the BOC Network’s growing alliance of Business Outreach Centers, or BOCs, connect local entrepreneurs to the full complement of business assistance services, as well as to financial, legal, and other resources. In the process, they successfully guide them through the process of starting and developing their enterprises, and then follow-up with them as they progress and their needs evolve.
Speaking the languages of the communities they serve, individual BOCs have proven to be ideally suited to reach and extend a guiding hand to local entrepreneurs whose challenges are many and resources few. BOC business counselors provide one-on-one needs assessment, business planning, marketing and management guidance, as well as access to resources through the BOC Network’s extensive linkages with the full spectrum of public and private business assistance sources.
Moreover, the BOC Network serves as a highly interactive forum for sharing technology and resources across community and cultural lines, enabling local entrepreneurs to familiarize themselves with the latest business practices, to forge meaningful links with mainstream services, markets, and mentors, and to gain access to new business-development opportunities.
In other words, the BOC Network makes connections that make the system work—for local entrepreneurs, communities, regions, service providers, and the economy as a whole.
BOC Network Facts
* Over 45% of BOC Network clients are new entrepreneurs
* BOC clients have accessed over $23 million dollars in small business financing
* More than 8000 small business owners and would-be entrepreneurs have been individually assisted by BOC Network staff and many more have attended entrepreneurial workshops and networking events
Fastest Growing Small Business Dominated Industries
* Computer & Data Processing Services
* Counseling & Rehabilitation
* Credit Report & Collections Firms
* Medical & Dental Laboratories
* Outpatient Care Facilities & Physician's Offices
* Providers of Day Care
* Restaurants
* Special Trade Construction Contractors
Connecting Small Businesses. Strengthening Local Economies. BOC.
If you are the owner of a small business, or are thinking of starting a new business, take advantage of our valuable free services and information.
We offer a wide range of business services to the small business community, including information and assistance with:
* Starting-up
* Business plan development
* Planning for growth
* Access to financing
* Credit counseling
* Marketing
* Financial management
* Import/export information
* Technical and technology assistance
* Licensing and permit information
* Business recovery programs
* Workforce development assistance
* Brooklyn Micro-Loan Fund
* Mentoring and networking
* Financial management training
* Legal assistance
* Grants for low-income entrepreneurs
* Languages spoken: English/Spanish
Our contacts in the public and private business world will enable you to get the expert advice and help you need.
So, if you have a business question, we have an answer.
Come to BOC!
Call us now at: 718-205-3773
Reach us via e-mail at: queens@bocnet.org
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96-11 40th Road, Ground Floor
Corona, NY 11004
Phone: 718-205-3773
Fax: 718-205-3774
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