Find free help in your state
National networks offer free help to small businesses in every state and territory — business advising, mentoring, government contracting, exporting, and rural business programs. Choose your state to see state-specific resources for each network, then verify current contact details on the official source pages.
Free services. No account needed. Your selection stays in your browser. You can also search every type of SBA local assistance by ZIP code: Open SBA’s local assistance finder
In California? Browse local resources in one place
Our local resource navigator lists verified organizations in the Sacramento, Fresno, and San Francisco regions — free advising, lenders to consider, training, hiring help, contracting programs, and startup resources — filterable by what your business needs.
Open the local resource navigatorThese networks are funded in part by the U.S. Small Business Administration, along with other public and private partners, so their core advising services cost you nothing. This website is independent of all of them: it is not an SBA program and is not affiliated with or endorsed by SBA, these organizations, or any lender.