Resources

Center for Women & Enterprise (CWE) is a not-for-profit educational organization providing comprehensive business assistance, networking opportunities and resources to women starting and/or growing their businesses.
Commonwealth Corporation (formerly the Corporation for Business, Work and Learning) is a quasi-public organization responsible for administering and delivering a wide range of public and privately-funded initiatives designed to meet the labor needs of businesses; improve current and emerging workers' skills; foster career success through lifelong learning; and retain, sustain, improve and create job-generating businesses.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts' Procurement Access & Solicitation System (Comm-PASS) allows businesses easy access to all of the information necessary to bid on many state contracts.
Economic Development Administration helps to generate jobs, retain existing jobs, and stimulate industrial and commercial growth in economically-distressed areas of the United States.
EDGAR, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, performs automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Environmental Protection Agency's Small Business Gateway allows access to U.S. EPA information from one convenient site. Information includes general small business information.
Federal Marketplace assists businesses in selling products and services to the federal government. Up-to-date Federal Acquisition Regulation, Cost Accounting Standards and the Internet's only Active Federal Contracts database.
FedWorld lists Internet resources of federal government agencies.
Internal Revenue Service has business tax information, publications and forms.
Internal Revenue Service's Small Business/Self-Employed website provides information for self-employed entrepreneurs, employers, and small and large businesses. The site offers a broad range of resources across federal and state agencies, as well as industry/profession-specific information.
Library of Congress has a wealth of information available and brings a universal collection of knowledge and creativity.
Massachusetts Community Development Finance Corporation (CDFC) is a quasi-public investment corporation that provides financing for small businesses, real estate projects, and community development programs in low and moderate income communities of Massachusetts. As an economic development organization, CDFC requires that projects meet CDFC's investment standards, and assist in the creation of jobs, business opportunities, affordable housing, or development of the local business district.
Massachusetts Department of Business and Technology is the state agency in Massachusetts that is responsible for job creation and economic development in the Commonwealth.
Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is responsible for protecting human health and the environment by ensuring clean air and water, the safe management and disposal of solid and hazardous wastes, the timely cleanup of hazardous waste sites and spills, and the preservation of wetlands and coastal resources. The Mass DEP recently unveiled a new website, www.Earth911Business.com, a one stop shop to help businesses effectively mange their waste and increase the use of recycling.
Massachusetts Department of Labor consists of five state agencies: The Department of Industrial Accidents, the Division of Occupational Safety, the Board of Conciliation and Arbitration, the Labor Relations Commission, and the Joint Labor Management Committee for Municipal Police and Fire. These agencies administer a wide variety of laws to help resolve disputes between employees, their representatives, and employers, to promote the safety and health of workers in Massachusetts, and to resolve issues involving injured workers.
Massachusetts Department of Revenue contains tax information, publications and forms.
Massachusetts Department of Workforce Development (DWD) connects people and businesses to job opportunities and job training across the Commonwealth. DWD provides unemployment assistance to job seekers, job matching services, labor market information and connections to education and training. DWD supports One-Stop Career Centers as the cornerstone for providing these services to employers and job seekers.
Massachusetts Division of Insurance monitors the solvency of its licensees in order to promote a healthy, responsive and willing marketplace for consumers who purchase insurance products. Protection of consumer interests is of prime importance to the Division and is safeguarded by providing accurate and unbiased information so consumers may make informed decisions and by intervening on behalf of consumers who believe they have been victimized by unfair business practices.
Massachusetts Division of Occupational Safety ensures the effective administration and enforcement of the employment agency laws in Massachusetts; the issuance of prevailing wage schedules for many public works projects; the promulgation and interpretation of the state's minimum wage regulations; and the issuance of minimum wage, seasonal business overtime, and uniform deposit waivers.
Massachusetts Division of Professional Licensure is responsible for licensing and regulating the activities of individuals, corporations and partnerships.
Massachusetts Export Center helps companies throughout the Commonwealth to achieve success in global markets through a statewide network of international trade professionals. The Massachusetts Export Center provides targeted, high-impact services for exporters, including counseling, training, research and technical assistance. Services are free and confidential. Part of the Massachusetts Small Business Development Center Network.
Massachusetts Insurance Partnership helps small businesses with uninsured employees pay for health insurance, including the self-employed. The Insurance Partnership is not a health plan. The Insurance Partnership helps pay for health insurance.