Community Partners

START

• America’s Debt Help Organization
• Steps to starting a business in Texas
• Demographics by ZIP Code
• Request to meet with a business consultant
• Small Business Administration
• IRS (Federal Taxes)
• Texas Comptroller's Office
• The Texas Business Advisor
• Secretary of State (Incorporating)
• Small Business Advocacy of the Governor’s Office
• Patent & Trademark
• Copyrights
• Copyright Basics
• Score

RUN

• Marketing Research
• Local Demographic Information
• United States Postal Service (Small Business Services)
• Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ)
• Create a Drug-free Workplace Policy
• Preparing Your Business for an Emergency

GROW

• 2013 Procurement Opportunities Guide
• Attend FREE online training workshops
• Government Contracting
• How to Win Government Contracts
• Demographics by ZIP Code
• Exporting
• Work Opportunity Tax Credit WOTC
• Texas Workforce Commission
• Business Insurance, an informative guide to Small Business

EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS

• Coastal Bend Texas-Chapter American Red Cross
• Texas Division of Emergency Management
• Texas Emergency Management Website-courses and trainings
• FEMA “Plan Ahead”-Hurricane Preparedness
• SBA’s Emergency Preparedness

RESOURCE PARTNERS

Coastal Bend Business Innovation Center

Their mission is to enable and accelerate the growth of emerging innovative companies for the purpose of creating jobs, promoting entrepreneurial economic development endeavors and providing higher education in the greater south Texas Coastal Bend area.

Corpus Christi Regional Economic Development Corporation (REDC)

The Corpus Christi Regional Economic Development Corporation is a non-profit organization responsible for creating, managing and supervising programs and activities that promote, assist, and enhance economic development within the city of Corpus Christi.