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Inland Empire - Economic Development Resources
City of San Bernardino Economic Development Agency:
http://www.sanbernardino-eda.org/index.shtml
The Business section of the site includes a link directory to government
and community agencies, a section for business assistance that includes
information
on "making things happen" (financial assistance, business consulting,
etc.) http://www.sanbernardino-eda.org/pdf/Making_Things_Happen.pdf,
development news, area demographics http://www.sanbernardino-eda.org/demographics.shtml,
and updated information on redevelopment projects.
Riverside County Economic Development Agency
http://www.rivcoeda.org/
The Business section of the site (http://www.rivcoeda.org/Default.aspx?tabid=463)
includes a list of services offered by the Economic Development Agency including
expedited permit processing, financing, information on business site selection
and incentive zones.
San Bernardino County Economic Development Division
http://www.sbcounty.gov/eda/ed/default.asp
The Workforce Opportunity Matrix (http://www.sbcounty.gov/workforce/)
provides forecasting information on job growth (to 2008) within the county, the
Business Resources section focuses on hiring needs of area businesses including
training incentives and tax credits. Information is also available on the incentives
available for businesses located in the Agua Mansa Enterprise Zone and
San Bernardino County business financing incentives. 2005 demographic and
statistical information on San Bernardino County, and a link to the San Bernardino
County Office of Small Business Development
(http://www.co.san-bernardino.ca.us/osbd/main/default.asp).
The Inland Empire Center for Entrepreneurship (CSUSB):
http://iece.csusb.edu/ A
nationally
ranked entrepreneurship program based at California State University, San
Bernardino, IECE’s mission is to advance the study and practice
of the entrepreneurship on campus and in the Inland Empire business
community. Aspiring and existing entrepreneurs throughout the Inland Empire
can access low and no-cost assistance programs offered by IECE at various community
office locations.
Learn more at: http://iece.csusb.edu/index_sub.php?menu=body&cat=2.
The Inland Empire Economic Partnership (IEEP)
http://www.ieep.com/html/buis_servi.htm The
IEEP is a private, non-profit regional economic development organization for
the Inland Empire. IEEP's core mission is the expansion and relocation of business
to the Inland Empire. The site includes The Inland Empire Small Business Development
Center (http://www.iesbdc.org/) which provides
training and other services to entrepreneurs in the Inland
Empire.
Information on Enterprise Zones:
California Association of Enterprise Zones: http://www.caez.org/
3805Z Enterprise Zone Business Booklet: http://www.ftb.ca.gov/forms/00_forms/00_3805Zbk.pdf
Enterprise Zone Frequently Asked Questions: http://www.ftb.ca.gov/forms/misc/1126.pdf
To find federal government documents on any topic: Go to the California
State University, San Bernardino’s Pfau Library Online Catalog (http://eros.lib.csusb.edu/loginipac.php)
and search by keyword. If you include the word "marcive" as one of your
search terms your search will find federal government publications available
electronically. Clicking on the link in the record will take you to the
full text of the publication.
Example: go to http://eros.lib.csusb.edu/loginipac.php;
search "marcive benchmarking"; one document found is entitled Identifying
Future Competitive Business Strategies for the U.S. Residential Wood Furniture
Industry: Benchmarking and Paradigm Shifts by Albert Schuler and Urs
Buehlmann. The online catalog record includes a link: HTML Tag: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS29459 (Click
on the URL for full text.) that takes you to the full document. A different
search: “marcive exporting” would find Breaking into the trade
game: a small business guide authored by the Small Business Administration
with a URL of http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS45646.
To find procurement opportunities for providing goods and services to the
federal government use Federal Business Opportunities: http://www.fedbizopps.gov/
To find information on exporting goods and services:
Inside the Pfau Library you can use STAT-USA (http://www.stat-usa.gov/),
which includes
the GLOBUS and NTDB (National Trade Data Bank). These resources include
international market research reports, trade opportunities and country analyses. The International
Trade Administration site (http://trade.gov/index.asp)
houses
Export.gov (http://www.export.gov/) which
includes information on trade opportunities. The site also offers a
free Virtual World Trade Reference Room (http://www.ita.doc.gov/td/industry/otea/ref-room.html) that
provides information on foreign trade including statistics, news, databases,
links to other data resources, and a link to the Trade Information Center
(http://www.trade.gov/td/tic/) which
is designed to help United States exporters.
To find demographic and business information on any area in the United
States use the Census Bureau's site.
The last decennial census was taken in 2000. Although the information from
the 2000 Census is dated it does cover every area of the United States
and the geographic breakdown of information includes National, Regional, Division,
State, County, Place (includes cities), Census Tract, Census Block Group, and
Census Block as well as American Indian Reservations, Metropolitan Statistical
Areas, U.S. House Congressional Districts, zip codes, etc. To
use it go to http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/ click
on "Get Data" under the Decennial Census section, and choose "Detailed
Tables" once you are in the Census.
The American Community Survey is updated constantly, but each update covers
a limited area and includes only basic geographic levels. In
2004 the American Community Survey examined San Bernardino County and
the City of Riverside. Example: Go to http://www.census.gov/ ;
choose American
FactFinder from the menu on the left side of the screen; under American
Community Survey choose Get Data, from the list to the right of
the 2004 American Community Survey choose Detailed Tables; select
the level of geography that is of interest (cities are under "place") and click
the "Add" button to add it to the Current geography selections box (you
can select more than one geographic area). Click on the "Next" button and
choose the data tables that are of interest (these include basic demographic
and economic information such as household income, age, race, sex, educational
attainment, language spoken in the home, etc.), again click "Add" to populate
the Current table selections box and click on the "Show Result" button
to bring up the requested tables.
For more information on the Census see the California State University, Pfau
Library's Government Documents' page on the Census:
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