About Us: SCORE
SCORE is an all-volunteer group with real-world business experience, dedicated to your success.
Our Mission: Help Small Businesses Succeed.
Our Mantra: We educate, counsel, mentor.
Founded in 1964, SCORE, "Counselors to America's Small Business", is a non-profit association and a Resource Partner of the U.S. Small Business Administration.
For more details, go to www.scorehouston.orgAbout Us: ESCH
Serving the Nonprofits that Serve Our Communities since 1984 with a mission to "help nonprofits excel."
Executive Service Corps of Houston is focused exclusively on advising nonprofits. For three decades ESCH has worked with hundreds of nonprofits, including schools, museums, cities, healthcare, social-service and other charitable organizations.
Improve your nonprofit in critical areas such as Fund Raising, Information Technology, Board Governance, Financial Accounting, Marketing
ESCH also have experts who can help you with:
Did you know that, though the statistics are murky, the failure rate of nonprofits is greater than that of for-profit businesses?
New nonprofits face a number of significant challenges if they are to survive and, more importantly, have a significant impact on their communities. So, if you are thinking of starting a nonprofit, or are facing challenges in running your young nonprofit, attend this free workshop and learn:
The world is in the midst of what one observer has called an "associational revolution. Now a days, nonprofit organizations are the real agents of change. Without nonprofits, there would be far less research done on life-threatening diseases, fewer meals given to those who can’t afford them, and a sicker, less beautiful world to live in. Nonprofits provide for their communities in ways that the business sector and government can’t.
Raj Mashruwala
SCORE and ESCH Volunteer
Raj is a retired strategic planner from Chemical and Refining industry with a Chemical Engineering degree and an MBA from the University of Texas in Austin. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).
Raj specializes in business planning, marketing planning, and financial planning for startups and growth for both, for-profit businesses and non-profit organizations and is especially good at helping you test the feasibility of a business idea or a project.
Raj holds a startup clinic for nonprofits at the ESCH office on Tuesdays and mentors for-profit businesses at SCORE's main office on Wednesdays.