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Small Business Development Center


The Small Business Development Center’s mission is to provide high quality assistance to existing and prospective small businesess in the form of counseling, training, and research.

Vision Statement
The North Dakota SBDC is recognized as the provider of choice for small business assistance. Our vision statement “Your Ideas, Our Expertise, Your Success” guides our organization and is supported through the following activities

  • Building a long term, trusting relationship with our clients, funding partners and other state resources.
  • Becoming an integral part of the economic development community by being a creative, solution oriented organization.
  • Building a high performing, well respected team that fully embraces continuous learning and being accountable for results and we are an integral part of economic development activities throughout the state.
  • Delivering a significant economic impact from investment in the SBDC program by federal, state, and local sources.

Core Values
1. Client focused quality services

  • Accessible services with ten offices statewide. Consultants who can travel to your site at no cost.
  • Technical assistance that focuses on helping clients meet their own goals for entrepreneurial success.
  • Knowledgeable consultants that are up to date on current issues facing entrepreneurs to benefit our clients over the long term.

2. Economic Impact Results

  • Focusing on activities that will have maximum economic impacts – job creation, business starts, expansions, retentions, investments, and etc.
  • Accepting accountability for a solid return on investment to our stakeholders, be it federal funds, state funds, local funds, or inkind donations
    3. Teamwork
  • Becoming as responsive to our teams needs as we are to our client’s needs, working together towards common goals for the benefit of the entrepreneurs of North Dakota.
  • Openly communicating using innovative methods; celebrating our successes and providing constructive criticism for future development, through a bottom-up approach.

For More Information Visit the Small Business Development Center’s website or contact:

Ray Ann Kilen
Regional Director
ND Small Business Development Center
rayann.kilen@dickinsonstate.edu
701-483-2470 office
701-483-2062 fax