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All nominations should be submitted electronically by 3 p.m. ET on December 8, 2022. The awards will be presented during the NSBW Awards ceremony in the first week of May 2023.

To nominate a small business owner in your area or download related forms, criteria, and guidelines, visit sba.gov/nsbw.

SCORE’s External Relations team is excited to announce the launch of the SCORE Success Story video campaign. The campaign, which is designed to raise awareness of SCORE and drive new mentor requests, features 20 small business clients from around the country sharing how SCORE has helped them in their entrepreneurial journey. Showcasing the message of SCORE for All, the 20 small businesses featured were selected based on diversity in geography, business type, ethnicity, background and business challenges.

The first video, featuring SCORE Miami client Lorinda Gonzalez, went live on SCORE HQ’s social media platforms on August 24th, with more launching shortly both via organic and paid social campaigns targeting those new to SCORE. Once the SCORE HQ campaigns are complete, each client and their chapter will receive the videos along with a toolkit that includes tips on how to extend the reach of the videos locally.

Be sure to follow SCORE on social media to like and share these powerful video testimonials!

On August 29th, SCORE Southeast Wisconsin volunteer Dave Chappell represented SCORE at the American Legion Veteran Small Business event in Milwaukee. Dave partook in a panel discussion surrounding access to capital and mentorship for veteran-owned and service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses.

View Dave's profile on SCORE.org:

Thanks for representing us, Dave! We appreciate you!

William D. “Bill” Wise joined SCORE Wichita in August 2002 at the invitation of a longstanding family friend who was also a SCORE member. After a brief introduction to SCORE systems, Bill started mentoring clients and over the past 20 years, accumulated an estimated 500 clients.

https://www.score.org/mentors/William-D-Wise 

In the face of economic challenges, SCORE is focused on supporting small business owners with resources from the Small Business Resilience Hub to provide entrepreneurs with the crucial information to keep their doors open through difficult times. More than 850,000 business owners have turned to the hub to overcome recent economic struggles. Read more about how SCORE continues to support entrepreneurs with these tools and your efforts in this press release, which was picked up by 230 outlets across the country, including Yahoo Finance and The Associated Press, with an estimated potential audience of 153 million.  

As a reminder, small business owners nationwide competed this summer to gain national exposure and product placement at major retailers through ‘Perfect Pitch’, sponsored by SCORE and the MagicMakers Group (MMG), a collective of former Disney executives and experts. ‘Perfect Pitch’ participants have the chance to be featured on the TV program America’s Big Deal and secure major investments, distribution or networking opportunities with Walmart, Sam’s Club and other retailers. Read more about ‘Perfect Pitch’ and how SCORE is supporting small business owners in this press release, which was picked up by 264 outlets across the country, including the Associated Press, Yahoo Finance and MarketWatch, with a total potential audience reach of nearly 172 million.

While we won't have any updates for America's Next Big Deal show until the fall, we wanted to once again thank all volunteers who were involved in this spring's event and recognize the following businesses who have already received follow-up and opportunities from our panelists (see list here). As future opportunities present themselves, panelists will reach out to participating businesses directly.

Thank you for helping make these opportunities possible for SCORE clients!

Shoutout to SCORE Cleveland for their incredible video and feature on News 5 Cleveland! This story does a fantastic job of celebrating the impact SCORE Cleveland is having within their community and highlights local SCORE clients served, too. Good stuff! 

Kudos to SCORE Southeast Minnesota mentor Dean Swanson for an ASK SCORE placement in the Albert Lea Tribune. In the piece, Dean highlights the habits of successful entrepreneurs – awesome advice!

Office Depot Stores have issued a new universal discount card that you can print and use to receive SCORE partner discounts (even on personal orders). Click here to download and print the discount card. Note: This is for discounted pricing only, it does NOT bill to SCORE.

With the Store Discount Program, you’ll enjoy a standard discount on certain product categories when you shop in an Office Depot or OfficeMax store. View discounts by category here.

To receive Partner Pricing with SCORE Account Billing you will need to order online and choose delivery or store pickup. In this case you can contact shipping@score.org if you have any questions.

If you are placing office or marketing orders for your chapter, you can learn more about your ordering options here.

Wednesday, September 21 | 12pm ET

Thursday, September 22 | 12pm ET

Join fellow volunteers across the country to network under the common value of inclusivity within SCORE.

Join live Engage trainings throughout the month for both new volunteers and seasoned volunteers based on your roles in Engage and how you may use the system to support SCORE clients.

Join monthly webinars based on SCORE functional areas of expertise including marketing, webmasters, social media, and accounting.