The SCORE Foundation is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization that serves as the philanthropic arm of SCORE, America’s premier source of free and confidential business advice to entrepreneurs and small business owners.
The Foundation facilitates individual contributions and corporate sponsorships that enable SCORE to expand the reach and enhance the success rate of our small business community through free mentors, tools, resources, workshops and educational programs.
285,014
mentoring sessions in 2023
Message from the President
President, SCORE Foundation
We are grateful to the many corporate and individual gift donors for the financial support they bring to the SCORE Foundation. Those dollars allow SCORE to help entrepreneurs to start, operate and grow their small business, overcoming the challenges they face along the way.
For decades, SCORE has played an active role in fostering small businesses across the country through a volunteer network which today numbers 10,000 expert executives. They provide free advice and mentoring at the local level. In addition, national educational programs and tools are developed each year to help those founders take their company to the next level. The financial contributions drive the program creation and delivery – as well as the people that implement them – to reach both new and ongoing small business founders. Those companies bring the vibrancy and variety to the neighborhoods in which we choose to live and work. We need them.
As an entrepreneur and former small business owner throughout my career, I know the value of having trusted advisors just a phone call away. I invite you to join us in supporting America’s entrepreneurial spirit through your gift to the SCORE Foundation. And by patronizing those small businesses in your community.
Small businesses drive the economy.
There were 32.5 million small businesses in the U.S. in 2021, employing 46.8 percent of all employees.