Media Fact Sheet

SCORE “Counselors to America’s Small Business” is a nonprofit association dedicated to entrepreneur education and the formation, growth and success of small business nationwide. More than 11,200 volunteer counselors provide individual mentoring and business workshops for aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners.

Counselors work with entrepreneurs through every phase of their entrepreneurial venture: generating and assessing ideas, preparing a business plan, raising capital, and managing the operations and finances of the growing venture.

SCORE has assisted more than 8 million Americans with online and face-to-face small business counseling. SCORE is a resource partner with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). SCORE was formed in 1964.

Based on the findings of the February 2008 Impact Study of SBA Entrepreneurial Resources, SCORE estimates that our volunteers helped create more than 25,000 new jobs nationwide in 2006, or one for every seven new clients. SCORE also helped create 19,732 new small businesses in 2007, according to an SBA report sent to Congress.

SCORE’s clients are representative of the diversity of business owners in the United States. A comparison of 2002 U.S. Census data for business owners and the SBA impact study shows the following results:

African-American Business-owned firms                        5 percent
SCORE African-American clients                                   15 percent

Hispanic/Latino-owned firms                                         7 percent
SCORE Hispanic/Latino clients                                       7 percent

Asian-American-owned firms                                        5 percent
SCORE Asian-American clients                                      4 percent

Women-owned firms                                                   28 percent
Women SCORE clients                                                 46 percent 

Veteran SCORE clients                                               10 percent 

• Number of Chapters Nationwide: 370

• Number of Branches Nationwide: 800

• Number of Counselors: 11,200

• Number of Online Counselors: 1,200

• FY08 Volunteer Hours: 1.3 million

• FY08 Total Services: 501,961

• FY08 Total Clients: 357,637

• FY08 Total Face-to-Face Counseling Sessions: 196,709

• FY08 Total Online Counseling Sessions: 120,433

• FY08 Total Chapter and Online Workshops: 48,912

• FY08 Workshop Participants: 184,819

• FY08 Annual Report - NEW

1175 Herndon Pkwy, Suite 900
Herndon, VA  20170
1-800/634-0245 or 703/487-3612
Fax: 703/487-3066

www.score.org
media@score.org

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Our national efforts to help small businesses are guided by an experienced and knowledgeable board of directors. View their profiles online.