Economic Development Corporation of Southwest California (EDC)

The Economic Development Corporation of Southwest California coordinates southwest Riverside County’s diverse economic development functions. Its goal is to ensure integral participation of the private and public sector in economic development and global economy. Resources available through the EDC include strategic connections for:

• Business Expansion
• Education/ Outreach
• Import/Export Referrals
• Marketing Exposure
• Project Finance
• Site Selection
• Technical Assistance

Additionally, the EDC provides assistance with business relocation and expansion as well as connecting existing, start-up or new businesses to available resources including:

• Business Planning
• Capital
• Human Resources
• Product/Service validity potential
• Technology

The Inland Empire Small Business Development Center (IESBDC)

The Inland Empire Small Business Development Center, hosted at Cal State San Bernardino’s Inland Empire Center for Entrepreneurship, provides the small businesses and entrepreneurs in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties with business assistance services from a variety of locations in the Inland Empire. The IESBDC provides valuable training and confidential, one-on-one, consulting on important areas such as:

• Financing for Existing Businesses and Start ups
• Business Planning and Development
• Marketing
• Social media and Sales
• Government and Corporate contracting

The SBDC’s mission is to provide the Inland Empire small business community we serve with affordable access to quality consulting, powerful training and key resources that allow people to achieve their dreams.

To schedule an appointment with a Business Consultant, please contact Paul Nolta, Assistant Director with the Inland Empire Small Business Development Center at 951-781-2345 or send us an email.

SBDC Tritech

TriTech Small Business Development Center (SBDC) works with high technology, rapid growth companies which have a very high impact on their local economies. TriTech offers consulting in areas such as:

• Identifying capital resources
• Commercializing new technologies
• Marketing products and services
• Becoming investor ready

TriTech’s mission is to make a measurable economic impact for the business community by increasing the profitability of enterprises. Economic growth depends upon entrepreneurs translating ideas and innovation into viable commercial enterprises.