Small Business Development Center Holds Open House

On Wednesday, September 17, the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University hosted an open house to celebrate the opening of a satellite office for the New York State Small Business Development Center (SBDC).  The C.W. Post Campus’s SBDC outreach office is a cooperate effort between SBDC’s main Long Island headquarters at Farmingdale State University of New York and C.W. Post.  Located in Lorber Hall on the C.W. Post Campus in Brookville, the SBDC plays a key role in economic development by providing high-quality technical and management assistance to start-up and existing small businesses free of charge. The center offers services such as advice on business plan development, cost analysis, loan information assistance, marketing strategies, financial planning, legal issues and the IRS. The C.W. Post Campus’s SBDC outreach office works in partnership with the SBDC’s main Long Island headquarters at Farmingdale State University of New York. For more information call John Steinhoff at 516-299-2095 or visit www.nyssbdc.org.

From left: Dr. Larry Kalbers, Associate Dean of Management and Director of the School of Professional Accountancy; Lucille Wesnofske, Director of Small Business Development Center at Farmingdale State University; Hon. David G. McDonough, New York State Assemblyman.