economic development

Support the Microenterprise Development Act

Action Alert!! Public hearing is this Wednesday, April 10th For everyone who has complained that the state of South Carolina has not done enough to help small businesses, your support for House Bill 3125 is needed. The legislation would establish a Microenterprise Partnership Program (MPP) within the SC Department of…

Small business access to capital

The country’s biggest banks have taken a lot of criticism about small business lending since the great recession began. Obviously, they don’t agree with their critics. In a recent interview with Robb Mandelbaum of The New York Times, Marc Bernstein, one of the top two small business lending executives at…

Community-Based Economic Development

THE SC SMALL BUSINESS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 1717 Gervais Street, Columbia, SC 29201  (803) 252-5733  www.scsbc.org Community-Based Economic Development All economic experts agree that most new jobs created will be by small businesses.  Yet the South Carolina Department of Commerce continues to focus primarily on large business recruitment and development. …