About SCORE
About SCORE USA
Our parent organization, the national SCORE Association, founded in 1964, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to entrepreneur education and the formation, growth and success of small business nationwide. SCORE has 389 chapters throughout the United States and its territories, with more than 11,500 volunteers serving as “Counselors to America’s Small Business.” Since its founding, SCORE has served more than 4.5 million clients with more than 1.2 million volunteer hours. SCORE is a resource partner with the U.S. Small Business Administration.
About SCORE Southern New Hampshire
SCORE (Chapter 199), based in Manchester N.H., was founded in 1967.
We assist small business with free business counseling, small business training and a library of resource information, much of which is online. Our mission: Timely, Quality Business Counseling.
One of six chapters in New Hampshire, our area includes Hillsborough and Merrimack counties, including the towns of Concord, Manchester, Salem, Nashua, Milford and even northern Massachusetts.
Our volunteer members, whose broad business experience range from marketing and sales, engineering, manufacturing, contract management, finance, general management, service and more, use their individual skills to help clients evaluate and develop plans for new businesses, solve business problems and direct them to additional resources, including financing.
The Manchester chapter now has more than 50 counselors and takes on an average of 14 new cases a week. Our clients find us on the Internet, through our publicity efforts and via referrals from financial institutions and the SBA. We meet with clients at their businesses, our offices, or in public locations such as libraries to accommodate their schedules.
Our goal is to help clients avoid common mistakes, provide direction and help them become as successful as they want to be. All of the volunteers and resources of our chapter are available to every client and they are available for as long as they want or need them.
Tom Vajo,
Bush Hill Motorcycles
“(Score Counselor) John (Post) has provided great ideas, helped develop our business plan and keep it updated, assisted immensely in our financial projections, and put us on course for profitability and success."
Starting with a weekend repair business, Tom now has opened his own shop with employees in Hudson
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