Rhode Island Business Women Resources and Business Links

Official Rhode Island Business Portal
Services, starting a business, licenses, online service, business learning, business service, department of business regulation, data and statistics, jobs and employment, research, taxes, regulations, permits, business laws, forms.

Rhode Island Small Business Development Center
roviding broad-based and high-quality, "No Cost" one-on-one counseling and low-cost group educational services. Connecting university, government, banking, private sector and other community-based resources to support small businesses and to promote economic development. The primary recipients of Small Business Development Center services are existing businesses. Certain specific services, notably educational programs, are offered to start-up businesses. Services are provided directly by experts and faculty/student teams in a variety of business disciplines at a network of offices throughout Rhode Island.

SBA Rhode Island District Office

Center for Women & Enterprise of Providence Rhode Island
CWE has served over 19,779 entrepreneurs. CWE offers education, training, technical assistance, women's business enterprise certification and access to both debt and equity capital to entrepreneurs at every stage of business development. Their clients are drawn from a wide variety of racial, ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds, spanning the range from women living in public housing who may want to start home-based or small retail businesses to women running fast growth, multi-million dollar technology businesses. As a non-profit, charitable organization, CWE provides scholarships for its services in order to serve all women, regardless of their ability to pay.

Business Score Offices of Rhode Island: