SCORE and Capital One Bank present this workshop designed to help small businesses not only survive butthrive in the current economy. Participants will have the opportunity to meet with representatives from thedifferent lending institutions to discuss your unique situation and network with other small business ownerswho are facing similar challenges.

Building Better Credit

Personal credit is an important key to achieving your personal and entrepreneurial goals. This workshop will provide an overview of concepts necessary to understand the correlation between personal and business credit. Participants will learn how to:

• Understand your credit report
• What is a credit score
• Establish positive credit history
• Obtain a FREE copy of your credit report
• Credit report updates and disputes
• Steer clear of credit repair scams

Presented by:  Marina Perez, Chief Executive of Education and Development

Marina has over two decades of experience in the personal finance and the credit industry. Over the years, she has provided hundreds of presentations both in English and Spanish. Her extensive expertise ranges between basic budgeting and savings presentations to Identity theft/Scams workshops. 

Marina is a Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) certified counselor and received her Neighborworks certification related to prevention and foreclosure mediation and is recognized as a credit authority.

Panel Discussion: A bankers’ panel will introduce the different services and programs available to smallbusiness owners and start-up entrepreneurs. They will answer questions and give business advice on how to avail such programs.

• Capital One Bank
• Small Business Administration
• HBDI, People Fund
• LiftFund

At the end of this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to meet SCORE certified mentors who arereadily available to provide FREE and CONFIDENTIAL mentoring.

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FREE event, registraion required