SCORE Celebrates 45 Years of Volunteer Service to America’s Entrepreneurs
SCORE celebrates 45 years of volunteer service to help small businesses nationwide start up, grow and succeed. This year, SCORE reached a new milestone, helping 8.5 million 
clients since 1964. Nationally, SCORE offers free and confidential business mentoring and low-cost workshops to more than 350,000 people each year.
SCORE provides a tremendous value to America’s economy. SCORE helps create more than 25,000 new jobs each year, based on an impact study of SBA Entrepreneurship Education resources. One in seven clients creates a new job. SCORE also helped create 19,732 new small businesses in 2007, according to an SBA report sent to Congress.
To help small businesses during the recession, SCORE launched the “Accelerate Your Success” Campaign. Each month, SCORE offers a new online toolkit with special articles, templates, podcasts and workshops at www.score.org/accelerate. Topics have included sales, management, marketing and growth. In addition, many SCORE offices across the country offer special training and workshops focused on recession topics.
Get advice by email through Ask SCORE at www.score.org/ask_score.html. Use the Find SCORE locator to find a SCORE office instantly at www.score.org/findscore.
