Lowell Small Business Assistance Center
Contact: Russell Smith, Executive Director
169 Merrimack Street
Lowell MA 01852

Created in December, 1998 by Community Teamwork Inc, The City Of Lowell and Middlesex Community College “to provide entrepreneurs from ethnically and economically diverse groups with the education, tools and resources needed to create, sustain, or expand viable small business.” In the past has received funding from Community Team-Work, the City of Lowell, Middlesex Community College, The Parker Foundation, FleetBoston, BankNorth, and Sovereign Bank. Offer a broad range of services, including Right Start (a six week Entrepreneurship training program), as well as an extensive business library that may be used with a community library card. Also offers business plan counseling, financing assistance, means tested free legal assistance, and on-going counseling through the first year of operation.

Organizations active at the Center include: US Small Business Administration, ACCION USA, the Jericho Road Project, the Economic Justice Project of the Massachusetts Bar Association, and the Small
Business Center at Salem State.

Massachusetts Business Development Corp
50 Milk Street
Boston MA 02109

600 Suffolk Street 5th Floor
Lowell MA 01854
Contact: Ken Goode

Provides the financial tools and real estate expertise needed to stimulate economic growth across the state of Massachusetts (address blighted areas, help create jobs, and address overarching issues that impact economic development).

Merrimack Valley Economic Development Council
Contact: Robert Halpin
60 Island Street
Lawrence MA 01840

Offers affordable Development Opportunities, highly-skilled and motivated workforce.

Middlesex Community College
591 Springs Road
Bedford MA 01730-1197

33 Kearney Square
Lowell MA 01852-1987

Business & Industry Program as well as online learning opportunities.

Project Vision
Contact: Ilana Freedman

A collaborative with the Billerica Chamber of Commerce to provide support to laid off workers, to help define the “new economy” and how to survive in it as well as to assist in providing an incubator environment for startups.

Shawsheen Valley Technical High School
100 Cook Street
Billerica MA 01821
Peter Quirk – Cooperative Education Placement

Ray Callahan - Evening School Director

With the support and advice of its Craft Advisory Committee members which represent local businesses throughout its 5 town coverage area
And its cooperative education placement program, the Shawsheen provides trained and in training employees for local area businesses.

The Massachusetts Worksharing Program
18 John Street
Lowell MA 01852

Provides a way for companies to retain their workforce while reducing payroll costs in the short term by allowing workers (in an entire company, a department within a company, or small unit within a company) to share reduced work hours while also collecting unemployment benefits to supplement their reduced wages.