The City of Chicago, Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection's (BACP) Neighborhood Business Development Centers (NBDC) offer several program types to  deliver highly specialized business programs and services that help entrepreneurs start, business owners grow or sustain their small businesses, as well as assist their NBDC Program peers to build their respective capacities.

The Chicago's Sunshine Enterprises, Inc. NBDC is a Business Stage Specialist. More information about the NBDC program is available at: https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/bacp/sbc/neighborhoodbusinessdevcenters.html

The mission of the Chicago Minority Supplier Development Council is to certify, develop, connect, and advocate for minority suppliers as the premier supplier development organization creating sustainable and profitable relationships between minority business enterprises and major buying organizations.

The City of Chicago, Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection's (BACP) Neighborhood Business Development Centers (NBDC) offer several program types to  deliver highly specialized business programs and services that help entrepreneurs start, business owners grow or sustain their small businesses, as well as assist their NBDC Program peers to build their respective capacities.

The Chicago Urban League NBDC is a cultural specialist. More information about the NBDC program is available at: https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/bacp/sbc/neighborhoodbusinessdevcenters.html

The Chinese Mutual Aid Association serves the needs, promotes the interests, and enhances the well-being of low-income, diverse immigrant and refugee communities across metro Chicago through social services, advocacy, educational programming and assistance for youth, adults, the elderly and small businesses.

The Donald Pritzker Entrepreneurship Law Center (DPELC), is an academic center at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and provides intensive, hands-on training for students who want to be transactional lawyers or founders of start-up companies. The DPELC clinical program has serves entrepreneurs while educating future lawyers about entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial thinking through a variety of traditional, clinical, and simulation-based course offerings, a marquee annual conference, a speaker series, a transactional law competition, and workshops and outreach efforts in the entrepreneurship community.

The DPELC clinic has a national reach, serving clients in both California and Illinois, and serves as a model for similar programs developed in law schools across the country.