Self Employment Service Providers
	This page contains a list of local organizations that are available to assist you in starting your own business or becoming self employed.

There are many Agencies in Niagara that can assist with Entrepreneurial information. Here are a few sites you can check out.

• Business Development Bank:  Listing of Financial Products, Venture Capital and Consulting Services.
• Business Development Centre - Fort Erie:  Helps promote small business, entrepreneurship and economic development in the Greater Fort Erie area.
• Niagara College Business Development Centre:  Offers excellent resources and expertise in business planning, finances and marketing.
• Niagara Enterprise Agency (NEA): Provides assistance to growing companies.
• Port Colborne Community Development Corporation:  Creates employment opportunities, supports community interests, community economic development and provides mentoring and advice for early stage and start-up businesses.
• St. Catharines/Niagara Small Business Self-Help Office: Follow Regional Access Sites, then go to Southwestern Ontario.
• Self-Employment Assistance:  Self Employment Benefits designed to help unemployed people start their own business.
• Small Business Club Niagara:  Provides ongoing support and networking opportunities for small business owners in Niagara.
• The Institute for Enterprise Education:  Support system for innovators and inventors,  market research and analysis services to facilitate achievable sales growth, generating better profit margins while opening up new markets, ongoing seminars led by experienced professionals to impart the most up to date information on topics that get straight to the bottom line,  networking opportunities with highly respected resource providers, assistance in finding capital, distribution networks and engineering expertise, experienced consulting when acquiring or divesting an enterprise, research and development,  project management, business planning and mentoring.
• Welland Business & Community Development Corp.:  Assists small and medium sized business in the City of Welland and surrounding area to create permanent jobs for the community.