This guide includes, but is not limited to the following: how to start a small business, business forms, franchising information, acquiring funding, and business plans.
Greater Knoxville SCORE – A local service agency with free counseling and low-cost workshops. The "Library" of information sheets on the website includes topics for nonprofits.
Knox Devs – An online community for the Knoxville area software development community putting developers and companies in touch with each other.
Makers – Organizations and spaces that support creative work in the Knoxville area.
Knoxville Area Urban League – Provides computer workshops and job counseling, helping clients with job search tools and online applications. As a certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), offers CO.STARTERS Entrepreneurship Training Program and small loans for business.
Knoxville Entrepreneur Center – A business accelerator that serves as the front door for entrepreneurs in our region, and a resource for anyone looking to start or grow a business here.
Tennessee Small Business Development Center – A network of professional business consultants with 20 locations geographically disbursed throughout the state, providing expert business advice to all types of businesses.
Knoxville-Knox County Planning collects data to support its planning efforts in Knoxville and Knox County. This data is not just valuable to our agency, it is valuable to Knox County citizens.
The Census State Data Center (SDC) program is a State/Census Bureau cooperative program with a mission of providing efficient access to US Census data and products, providing training and technical assistance to data users, and providing feedback to the Census Bureau on data usability, as well as state and local government data needs and operational issues.
