New director assumes duties at St. Joe SBDC

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Rebecca Evans

Rebecca Evans was recently named director of the Small Business Development Center in St. Joseph.

Northwest SBDC comprises three offices that each fall under the direction of Northwest Missouri State University and the University of Missouri Extension in cooperation with the U.S. Small Business Administration. The Northwest region covers 17 northwest Missouri counties.

Evans is responsible for providing resources and services to small business owners and entrepreneurs in the St. Joseph region.

Formerly employed in the healthcare industry, Evans holds a master's degree in administrative studies from Missouri State University in Springfield, and, with her husband, has owned and operated two small businesses. She has lived in St. Joseph for the past 6 years.

As director of the St. Joseph Office, Evans is responsible for offering guidance and advice on a variety of topics to owners of both startups and established businesses, usually free of charge.

The most common small business counseling concerns include how to start a business, writing business plans, financing, incorporating, permitting, market evaluation, advertising, exporting, workforce training, site or facility selection, bookkeeping and interacting with government agencies.

SBDCs are attached to institutions of higher learning throughout the United States, and their primary mission is to create economic impact through counseling and training for businesses with fewer than 500 employees.

The program's main functions are to:

Provide pragmatic, individual counseling to small business firms and individuals.
Coordinate and conduct research into technical and general small business problems.
Conduct conferences and workshops at a nominal charge on various topics of interest to the owners of small business.

The Northwest SBDC region stretches south from Atchison County to Platte County and eastward to Livingston County. For more information about Northwest SBDC, contact the office in your area:

St. Joseph, Rebecca Evans, 816.232.4461, evanssbdc@saintjoseph.com.
Chillicothe, Steve Holt, 660.646.6920, sbdchill@greenhills.net.
Maryville, Frank Veemnan, 660.562.1701, fveeman@nwmissouri.edu

For more information, please contact:

Anthony Brown,
News Bureau Manager
E-Mail: abrown@nwmissouri.edu
Phone (660) 562-1704
Fax (660) 562-1900

Northwest Missouri State University
219 Administration Building,
800 University Drive
Maryville, MO 64468

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