Other Government Resources

rev.01/2010
FEMA Emergency and management Guide
www.fema.gov/pdf/library/bizindst.pdf
GSA Office of Small Business Utilization
Contact: Deborah Tarleton or
France Lopez
Thomas P ONeill Jr Federal Building
10 Causeway Street
Boston MA 02222-1047

Advocates for small, minority, veteran, HUBzone, and women owned businesses. Its mission is to promote increased access to GSA’s nationwide procurement opportunities.

617-565-8100
Fax 617-565-8101
www.gsa.gov

Internal Revenue Service
Problem Resolution Department
Contact: Wendy Campbell
JFK PO Box 912 Stop 21300
Boston MA 02203

 

800-829-1040
617-316-2486
Fax 617-316-2240

www.irs.gov

 

MassDevelopment
29 South Canal St  Suite 107
Lawrence MA 01843

978-459-6100

Fax  978-459-1888

kgoode@massdevelopment.com

www.massdevelopment.com

Massachusetts Export Center
State Transportation Building
10 Park Plaza  Suite 4510
Boston MA 02116

It serves as the state's point of contact for MA businesses seeking export assistance and information.

Through the Center, companies can access a broad range of export assistance and services, including: export readiness assessments, one-on-one export counseling, export workshops, training programs and conferences, informative export publications, overseas market research and trade statistics, international marketing activities, trade missions and shows, network of overseas offices providing customized assistance to qualifying companies, meetings with visiting international business delegations, export financing.

The Center offers a full range of international training topices through Partners for Trade, an executive seminar series.  Topics include, but are not limited to letters of credit, export logistics, financing, export controls and licensing, and the popular Certified Global Business Professional Series. 

The Center, hosted by the University of MA Ameherst, has 4 offices wit the Boston office as the headquarters and additional offices in Holyoke, New Bedford, and Worcester.

www.mass.gov/export

617-973-8664

Fax 617-973-8681

Massachusetts Small Business Development Network (MSBDC)
Northeast Regional Office
Salem State College
121 Loring Avenue  Suite 310
Salem MA 01970

The NE Regional Office provides advice to businesses located in the North Shore and Merrimack Valley areas of the state.  Since its inception in 1991, the office has worked with over 10k entrepreneurs to raise over $46million in loans.  In addition to office hours in Salem, staff also hold office hours at chambers of commerce, local colleges and economic development groups throughout Northeastern MA. 

www.salemstate.edu/sbdc

978-542-6343

Fax 978-542-6345

Public Health
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
365 East Street
Tewksbury MA 01876
978-851-7261
Public Safety
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
365 East Street
Tewksbury MA 01876
978-851-9813

Small Business Association (SBA)  

Provides assistance for starting new proprietorships, partnerships, or corporate business.  Provides disaster assistance, financial assistance, counseling

www.sba.gov/services

US Department of Commerce Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) 

Access to markets, access to capital, management and technical assistance, education and training
800-772-1213
www.mbda.gov

US Department of Energy

Participates in a variety of areas:

  • Science and technology
  • research and development
  • ensuring the supply of radio isotopes
  • research in environmental sciences
  • diverse research portfolio
  • Energy sources
  • increasing energy supplies
  • modernizing our energy infrastructure
  • ensuring the productive and optimal use of energy resources, while limiting environmental impact
  • cooperating on international energy issues
  • Energy efficiency
  • energy for America's future
  • protecting the environment through energy efficiency
  • making homes more energy effiicient
  • maintaining energy for the future
  • The environment
  • Disposing of nuclear waste safely
  • The environmental legacy of the Cold War
  • Safely storing radioactive waster
  • protecting the environment and the public
  • National security
  • cyber security protection
  • managing operations security
  • preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction
  • Safety and health
www.energy.gov

US Environmental Protection Agency

  • Water pollution can hurt the ability to use water in homes, for recreation, and in commerce.  Works to protect water in all its forms: on the ground, underground and coming out of the tap - drinking water, water science, water pollution, wetlands, watersheds
  • Air pollution, air science, air pollutants
  • Climate - climate changes, climate science, climate policy
  • Wastes and polution - pollution prevention, pollutants, wasters, air pollution, water pollution, cleanups (Brownfields and Superfund), oil spills
  • Green living - reduce, reuse, recycle, green building, smart growth, green communities, energy and efficiency (energy star, compact fluorescent light bulbs, power profiler)
  • Human health - children's health protection, mercury and human health, lead in paint, dust and soil, drinking water and health, radon health risks, indoor air pollution, radiation proteciton and health effects, risk assessment
  • Ecosystems - air, water, land and habitats supporting plant and animal life in a specific area
www.epa.gov
US Department of Treasury, Office of Small Business Development (OSBD)
Counsels and advises small businesses of all types (small businesses, small disadvantaged businesses, women owned small businesses, veteran owned small businesses, and small businesses located in historic underutilized business zones) on procurement for contracting with the Treasury.
www.ustreas.gov
Veterans Administration Office
US Government Veterans Affairs
130 Marshall Road
Lowell MA 01853
978-934-9124
Department of Veterans Affairs
www.va.gov