Award-winning KCSourceLink connects a network of more than
140 resource partners–organizations that offer
business-building services for small business success.
Through KCSourceLink, small business owners and
entrepreneurs throughout the KC-region can easily find the
help they need, when they need it.
KCSourceLink:
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gathers information about your business and needs
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guides you to the business resources you need
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follows up to assure service and satisfaction
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understands small business
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provides resource referral services at no cost
This network is made up of many kinds of organizations:
incubators, small business development centers,
organizations such as SCORE, groups that provide microloans,
angel networks, chambers of commerce, economic development
corporations, and more. To be referred to the appropriate
resource, aspiring and existing business owners simply call
the hotline phone number, 816-235-6500 or 866-870-6500, or
visit the Web site,
where they can create a customized search for resources with
KCSourceLink’s online search tool,
The Resource Navigator.
Two major economic development organizations recently
recognized KCSourceLink with national and international
awards.
KCSourceLink Connects Entrepreneurs to Needed Resources
Doug
Lobdell wanted
to patent, manufacture and sell his newly-developed
pet-grooming product, the Table Top Grooming Station.
The Olathe (Kansas) Chamber of Commerce, a resource partner,
referred him to KCSourceLink. One call to the hotline phone
number connected him to the help he needed.
KCSourceLink
recommended that Doug contact the Small Business Technology
Development Center at the University of Central Missouri for
trademark, patent and product packaging help, and the Small
Business Development Center at Johnson County Community
College provided sales tax and business counseling.
“Thanks
to the KCSourceLink referrals, I was able to turn my new
product into a business,” says Doug.
Amanda Mindham
is president and CEO of an established business, J&A Traffic
Products LLC. She needed assistance in developing and
running her growing businesses and called KCSourceLink.
Amanda was also interested in finding a mentoring program.
KCSourceLink’s recommendations led her to the
Kauffman
Foundation’s FastTrac Business Planning course and the
Kansas Women’s Business Center, where she participated in
the financial mentoring program.
Amanda rates
her KCSourceLink experience highly, noting,
"I knew where I wanted to go; KCSourceLink
connected me with the right people to get there."
KCSourceLink was founded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman
Foundation, the SBA and the Bloch School of Business and
Public Administration at UMKC
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