SCORE is a nonprofit association dedicated to educating entrepreneurs and helping small businesses start, grow, and succeed nationwide. SCORE is a resource partner with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), and has been mentoring small business owners for more than forty years.

SCORE is a valuable network of 13,000+ volunteers who offer small business entrepreneurs confidential business mentoring services at no charge. SCORE volunteers have the knowledge, expertise and experience to help any small business owner get the help they need. Our dedicated volunteers represent over 3,000 years of experience across 62 industries.

SCORE also provides local workshops and events throughout the country to connect small business owners with the people and information they need to start, grow, and maintain their businesses, as well as online workshops available 24/7. SCORE provides resources, templates and tools to assist entrepreneurs in developing plans that they need to navigate their way to small business success.

Founded in 1964, SCORE is headquartered in Herndon, VA and has 364 chapters throughout the United States and its territories, with over 13,000 volunteers nationwide.

ABOUT SCORE FOX CITIES

SCORE Fox Cities is one of the most active SCORE chapters in the State of Wisconsin. We have a team of 40+ active mentors that provide support and mentor clients on an on-going basis. Our mentors are knowledgeable, motivated, dedicated and committed to helping small businesses.

We manage SCORE Fox Cities, Oshkosh and Fond du Lac chapters. We represent 8 counties – Calumet, Green Lake, Fond du Lac, Marquette, Outagamie, Waupaca, Waushara, and Winnebago.

We offer workshops, seminars and webinars throughout the year. Our newly introduced workshop, Simple Steps to Starting a Business (funded by Bank of America), includes Start-up Basics, Business Concept, Marketing Plans, Financial Projections and Funding Sources & Next steps for the client that is interested in understanding what it takes to be a business owner.

While our main focus is to take care of the needs of our small business clients, we are are always looking for new volunteers that can help us with mentoring, support functions in the day-to-day operations of the organization as well as specialists who can offer their limited time and resources to guide or advice our clients on an ad hoc basis.

Our vision:

Mentoring businesses to success, one business at a time.

Our key goals are to:

• Increase visibility and presence of our organization in the 8 county region
• Build a strong infrastructure to support the transformational changes
• Forge strong alliances with strategic partners in the community

We have formed partnerships with the Chamber of Commerce, SBDC, GoodWill’s GoodBusiness Program (Micro Business), the FabLab, WorkForce Development. SCORE is a strong mentoring arm in these alliance. We plan to collaborate, reduce redundancy and leverage all of the resources available for the benefit of our business clients. With the added advantage of the state-of-the-art technology and national partnerships provided to our chapter, we look forward to being a mentoring clearinghouse for all other entities in our business community.