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SCORE has produced numerous Success Stories. These are businesses that have been tracked over time and have succeeded due largely to SCORE mentor involvement. Let’s develop a mentoring relationship for you and your business and create another Success Story.
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"I reached out to SCORE when COVID19 happened and I was afraid that my small business would not survive. I was assigned a mentor, who then reached out to a second advisor that specializes in nonprofit management.
Although I had been in business for more than 7 years, my mentors helped me to understand the financial side of business in a new way. They helped me to implement new changes to ensure the financial viability of the nonprofit so that we could continue to serve our community. It was so helpful to have an outside perspective from mentors in a different industry that could explain and help me to apply business principles. I even learned about nonprofit board management, which was invaluable to helping more people to support the nonprofit. My mentors met with me via Zoom and answered emails with a lot of questions, albeit sometimes very basic business questions, but they were always very patient and explained things to me. I am very grateful for their support and value their mentorship."
- Faune Towery
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