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Directory of Local Resources for Businesses

Wyandotte County is home to a wide array of services and support resources to help you launch and expand your business.

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Financial Assistance & Incentives
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Explore grants, loans, and tax credit programs offered by the Dotte!

Financial Assistance
The Toolbox Small Business Resource Center
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The Toolbox provides free business support for planning, registering, funding, operating, and growing your business.

Business Development
Financial Assistance
The Black Mastermind Group
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The Black MasterMind Group’s mission is to focus on reducing the disparities in the Black Community by providing Job Readiness, Workforce Development programs along with the Entrepreneurial program. We believe we can create some unique learning opportunities that will put the Black Entrepreneurial community in alignment.

Business Development
Technical Assistance
Wyandotte Economic Development Council
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The Wyandotte County EDC promotes and strengthens Wyandotte County’s economy through innovative approaches to programs, partnerships, and leadership in industrial, residential, office and retail markets.

Business Development
Downtown Shareholders

Business owners/employers in the Downtown KCK area can consider becoming a member of the Downtown Shareholders to champion downtown businesses and events.

Networking
Visit KCK

Visit KCK is our tourism arm in Kansas City, KS and promotes places, activities, shops, and restaurants throughout the area.

Networking
Wyandotte County Land Bank
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Wyandotte County has over 3,200 vacant lots available for purchase. Primarily acquired in tax sales, these lots are available for purchase for $1 (not including application fees) and are located predominantly in Northeast KCK.

Business Development
KC Sourcelink
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KCSourceLink helps lead the effort to make Kansas City America’s most entrepreneurial city. That means we connect entrepreneurs to resources, coaches, funding, education and help coordinate great events for entrepreneurs, like Global Entrepreneurship Week. We also help monitor Kansas City's entrepreneurial ecosystem: we measure outcomes, work with our Resource Partners to fill gaps in resources and bring national resources to the community through grants such as the i6 Challenge and the University Center grants from the Department of Commerce EDA.

Networking
Technical Assistance
BankOn
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The Bank On movement is a national effort to ensure everyone has access to safe and affordable bank accounts, leveraging national, regional, and local collaborations to encourage widespread availably of safe, low-cost transactional products. 

Financial Assistance
ThinkKC (Kansas City Area Development Council)
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The Kansas City Area Development Council (KCADC) is a private, non-profit organization. We are charged with representing the economic interests of the entire two-state, 18-county Greater Kansas City region of 2.5 million. KCADC's clients consistently rank our team the No. 1 Regional Economic Development Group in the nation.

Business Development
Networking
Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City
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The Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City is the birthplace of the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in Washington DC. The Hispanic Chamber is the voice for small business in the Greater Kansas City metro. We represent business of all sizes across 8 counties in both Kansas and Missouri.

DEI
Business Development
Black Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City
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Our purpose is to ensure that Black-owned businesses always have an opportunity to express their interests and to be heard. It is through the Chamber’s persistent voice, our businesses are able to effectively communicate and address the needed changes to rectify continued racial imbalances in the economy and to strengthen the community. 

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Business Development
Women's Business Center
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The mission of the Women’s Business Center is to develop, counsel and mentor women in all stages of business development and growth. We do this through classes, seminars, peer roundtables, one-on-one consultation, networking and referrals. We also educate women entrepreneurs on sources of funding to include micro-loans and angel funding through the Women’s Capital Connection.

Business Development
DEI
Financial Assistance
Johnson County Enterprise Center
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The Enterprise Center in Johnson County (ECJC) is a non-profit organization that helps Kansas City entrepreneurs grow by providing entrepreneur education, mentoring, and connections to capital. The ECJC is a hub of entrepreneurial activity, housing the Women's Business Center, the Mid-America Angels and the Women’s Capital Connection angel investment networks, and the Growth Mentoring Service and the LaunchU entrepreneurial programs. 

Whether you need help determining where to start or you’re working to grow your business, ECJC is a valuable resource in helping entrepreneurs and startups navigate the many resources available to them. ECJC resources are available to companies in Missouri or Kansas. We look forward to meeting you soon!

Business Development
DEI
Financial Assistance
PLEX Capital, LLC
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Specializing in Accounts Receivable Financing, Factoring, Microlending, and Asset-Based Lending in the B2B space nationwide. Start-Ups, Fast growing companies and ITIN are welcomed.   

Financial Assistance
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