SBDC Expanding Services into Antelope Valley

The Small Business Development Center at College of the Canyons will expand its business consulting and training services in the Antelope Valley with the help of a $10,000 donation from Wells Fargo Bank. The services will help grow the local economy by assisting entrepreneurs and small business owners. The center also received $10,000 in matching federal funds for the program providing business start-up and expansion assistance; training entrepreneurs about forming a business plan; guidance on how to obtain financing; and advice about increasing sales for existing businesses. The SBDC will provide the training advisors and consultants with Wells Fargo and the Antelope Valley Board of Trade offering meeting space. “This partnership—which brings together the resources of the nation’s number one small business lender and Los Angeles county’s top-performing team of SBDC business advisors—will help hundreds of Antelope Valley’s small business owners receive the assistance they need to meet the challenge’s of today’s business environment,” said center Director Steve Tannehill. Thom Senzee