Technical Assistance
DESCRIPTION:
- Technical assistance involves improving skills and providing assistance through direct consultation and specialized training.
- Technical assistance may focus on broad management issues, as well as specialized issues. Services provided may include legal and accounting assistance; marketing and business planning assistance; technical assistance on specific product production problems; counseling for potential home buyers; referral to sources of financing; in some instances, in-house financing mechanisms, etc.
FUNCTION:
- Technical assistance can improve management and technical capacity, and hence the probability of the project's success.
- Technical assistance may also improve the quality of available information about the borrower via improved business plans, financial statements, etc.
QUALIFICATION AND USE CRITERIA:
- Potential users of the assistance qualify by the nature of their project (i.e. nonprofit developer), size of their project (i.e. small business), location of their project (i.e. small business incubator), income of their participants (i.e. low-income homebuyer), etc.
PROGRAM STRUCTURE:
- Technical assistance providers define who is eligible for the assistance.
- Space limitations (i.e. small business incubator) or resource limitations (i.e. available consultants) may cause the service to be rationed as well.
- Services are widely used with other enhancements.
DOWNLOADABLE DOCUMENTS (PDF):
- ACCION New Mexico
- All Indian Business Development Program (AIDA)
- Business Information Center (BIC)
- Cooperative Advertising Program
- First Nations Oweetsa Corporation
- International Trade (State)
- International Trade Administration (Federal)
- National Economic Development Associates (NEDA)
- New Mexico 9000
- New Mexico Community Foundation
- New Mexico Cooperative Advertising Program
- New Mexico Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP)
- New Mexico Native American Business Development Center
- New Mexico Procurement Assistance Program
- New Mexico Small Business Development Centers (NMSBDC)
- New Mexico Technet
- New Mexico Workforce Connection
- Rural Development Cooperative Development Assistance
- Rural Development Self-Help Technical Assistance Grant - Section 523
- Rio Grande Minority Purchasing Council, Inc.
- Rural Economic Alliance Partnership (REAP)
- Sandia National Laboratories Small Business Programs
- Santa Fe Community Loan Fund
- Small Business Administration (SBA) Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE)
- Small Business Administration (SBA) Women's Network for Entrepreneurial Training (WNET)
- Small Business Assistance Program (SBAP)
- Space Alliance Technology Outreach Program
- Technology Transfer
- Univerity of New Mexico Bureau of Business and Economic Research (BBER)
- Utility Companies
- Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Minority and Women-Owned Business Vendor-Partner Program
- Women's Economic Self-Sufficiency Team (WESST)
- Workforce Training Center
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