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The SBDC conducts research, counsels, and trains business people in management, financing, and operating small businesses, and provides comprehensive information services and access to experts in a variety of fields. Each SBDC encourages unique local efforts, region to region, state to state, and community to community to meet small business needs in its area.SBDC offices develop and maintain partnerships among community organizations and local, state and federal agencies, providing a focal point for broad networks of public and private resources at the community level. SBDC partnership programs and activities serving small businesses have contributed significantly to economic growth in each state.The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) provides guidance and funding to the SBDC program through cooperative agreements. Each of these SBDC offices subcontracts with other universities, community colleges, chambers of commerce and other institutions to provide a network of over 1,100 full service assistance centers to the small business community.