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Important Announcement about EcoMap Baltimore

As of March 2021, EcoMap Baltimore is in hibernation
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EcoMap Baltimore was created in early 2020 by EcoMap Technologies, a Baltimore-based company that provides custom technology solutions for entrepreneurial communities across the US & abroad. EcoMap Baltimore was our pilot site, meaning it's the first version of our platform, and its launch was funded by the EcoMap Team. As our company has grown, we've made tremendous improvements to the core EcoMap platform. However, our team has not been able to implement these features on EcoMap Baltimore, given its early version and the lack of a partner organization.

We are excited to announce that there's a new partnership backing the revitalization of EcoMap Baltimore, launching in late summer 2021. The platform will be packed full of features and data to help Baltimore's entrepreneurial ecosystem thrive. Until that point, the data on this platform is no longer being updated by the EcoMap team, as we work with our partners to build a next-generation EcoMap. In the meantime, you can find updated information on resources and deadlines on the Maryland Entrepreneur Hub.

Thank you for your support of EcoMap Baltimore - this site is what allowed our company to take off 🚀. We'll be back in a few months with the platform that Baltimore deserves: driven by the community, with best features we offer, built by a startup that calls Baltimore home.

-Pava LaPere, CEO, EcoMap Technologies

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BCAN Help Desk offers business, financial, marketing and legal planning assistance designed with creatives in mind.

Small Businesses

Artists or Creatives

BDC Real Estate Services

Do you need assistance with a real estate development project or help identifying the best site for your business? The Baltimore Development Corporation provides a wide range of services, including: Technical assistance Permit expedition Site selection Loans Façade improvement grants Identifying available tax credits & incentives

Small Businesses

Baker Artist Portfolios & Awards

The Baker Artist Portfolios were created to support artists and promote Greater Baltimore as a strong creative community.

Small Businesses

Ballard Spahr BASE CAMP

Through the Ballard Academy for Student Entrepreneurs (BASE), Ballard Spahr seeks to lessen these burdens for student entrepreneurs by offering pro bono legal assistance on discrete issues facing their potential ventures.

Small Businesses

Student Founders

Baltimore Business Directory

Find local businesses relative to a specific geography, sector, or founder cohort.

Small Businesses

Baltimore Business Energy Challenge

The Baltimore Energy Challenge (BEC) teaches low to no cost ways to save energy to Baltimore City residents, businesses, and nonprofits through a grassroots effort in neighborhoods and schools. We ask everyone to sign a pledge committing to reduce their energy use through behavior change and for that, we thank them with a kit of energy saving products.

Small Businesses

Baltimore Business Events Calendar

Get the word out and target thousands of influential leaders in the local business community.

Small Businesses

Baltimore Business Journal

We're pleased you're visiting the digital edition of the Baltimore Business Journal. Here you'll find breaking business news, photos and videos, updated throughout the day, as well as stories and features from the print edition, our exclusive Lists and Leads, and information on BBJ events and awards.

Small Businesses

Baltimore City Comprehensive Bag Reduction Act

On January 13, 2020 Baltimore City passed the Comprehensive Bag Reduction Act to reduce the use of single-use plastic bags and encourage the use of reusable bags.

Small Businesses

Baltimore City Dept. of Finance Applications, Permits and Registration

The Bureau of Revenue Collections has the responsibility to collect all revenue owed to the City of Baltimore through various taxes, fines, fees and penalties.

Small Businesses

Baltimore City Dept. of Transportation Quick Forms

These are the most frequently requested Baltimore City Department of Transportation forms.

Small Businesses

Baltimore City Foam Ban Information

The Baltimore City Foam Ban went into effect 10/19/19 and applies to all food service businesses. The Baltimore City Council passed an ordinance in April 2018 banning expanded polystyrene foam food containers in Baltimore City.

Small Businesses

Baltimore City Food License Permit Renewals

Services are provided to regulate facilities and to enforce the Baltimore City Health Code and applicable state and federal rules and regulations as they relate to environmental health.

Small Businesses

Baltimore City MBE/WBE Directory

The MBE/WBE Directory lists certified businesses in alphabetical order and by services. The MWBOO expressly disclaims liability for errors and omissions in the contents of this directory.

Small Businesses

Founders of Color

Female Founders

Baltimore Civic Fund Services

We operate at the intersection of government and philanthropy, allowing us to provide a unique suite of services for the City of Baltimore and community-based organizations. Our services range from financial management to grantmaking to technical assistance.

Social Entrepreneurs

Baltimore Fishbowl Shop Local

Baltimore Fishbowl reports the fun, factual and sometimes controversial scoop on local schools, real estate, money and power, culture, lifestyle, and community. Find daily posts Monday through Friday, longer original weekly stories, assorted columns and curated news from around the region, all accompanied by photos and video.

Small Businesses

Baltimore Magazine Restaurant Directory

A comprehensive resource guide including our annual Best Restaurants list as well as other great places to eat in the Baltimore area.

Small Businesses

Baltimoreblack.com Business Directory

BaltimoreBlack.com's mission is to provide the African-American community an online resource which will help promote the growth of Black-Owned businesses and community organizations, and encourage the support for African-American events.

Small Businesses

Founders of Color

BmoreArt is an independent, Baltimore-based magazine that reflects the art and culture of our city and the surrounding region, including Maryland, Washington, DC, and Northern Virginia.

Small Businesses

Business Survival During a Pandemic

Check out our new COVID forum where you can post questions that your small business peers can answer.

Small Businesses

Business to Business Connection

Welcome to the Business to Business Connection page hosted by the Baltimore City Chamber of Commerce and the Baltimore Development Corporation.The following businesses have added their information to the Business to Business Connection registry. Please contact them to discuss how their services can meet your current business needs.

Small Businesses

Chamber of Commerce Crisis Response Page

As we adjust to the changes of the COVID-19 crisis, the Baltimore City Chamber of Commerce has created this page. Here we will share information that we believe can help our members, not just survive times like these, but hopefully, continue to keep as many people employed as possible.

Small Businesses

The City promotes equal business opportunity by encouraging full and equitable participation by Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprises in City contracting.

Small Businesses

Female Founders

Founders of Color

Client Customized Support Services

EDG offers various seasonal trainings, which include topics like technical assistance, credit improvement, savings, “10 Steps to Starting Your Business”, as well as many other financial literacy issues.

Small Businesses

Underserved Founders

Cyber SWAT Team

CAMI has a membership of 500+ cyber security professionals and businesses that are available to support your business. To leverage this resource, CAMI has established a cybersecurity breach incident hotline for businesses.

Small Businesses

Cybersecurity Associate Company Directory

Here you will find cybersecurity product and service companies located in Maryland.

Small Businesses

Interested in learning more about EDG? Browse our collection of valuable resources.

Small Businesses

Entrepreneur Academy

Do you have a great idea for a small business but don’t know how to launch it? Have you already started a business but are unsure how to take it to the next level? Are you interested in being your own boss? The Entrepreneur Academy teaches you everything you need to know about starting and running your small business but didn’t know who to ask.

Small Businesses

Federal Hill Business Directory

Find local businesses relative to a specific geography, sector, or founder cohort.

Small Businesses

Fell's Point Main Street Neighborhood Directory

Find local businesses relative to a specific geography, sector, or founder cohort.

Small Businesses

Frequently Asked COVID-19 Questions for Employers

COVID-19 can be a confusing, stressful, and overwhelming situation for employers. The Baltimore City Health Department (BCHD) is a resource for you to help make the right decisions for your staff, patrons, and business.

Small Businesses

GBW COVID-19 Resources

We are compiling resources that are available and may be of assistance to businesses in Baltimore and throughout the state during this time of crisis, and will continue to update as new information becomes available.

Small Businesses

Good Business @ Work

Have a Story to Tell? We’d love to hear from you! Please share your experience with us and you could be featured on our website.

Small Businesses

Good Business Works Network

Whether you’re a large company working to expand your social impact or a local business rooted in your community, we want to recognize your leadership in creating great jobs in Baltimore, and work with you help your employees and business thrive.

Small Businesses

Guidance for Non-Profits and Food Pantries

Food pantries and food distribution sites provide donated food at no cost to people who have limited access and play an important role in communities. Community organizations often work with food pantries to provide food to families. Food pantries can have their own building, be in schools or churches, be mobile (e.g., in a truck), or distribute food in other ways, such as drive-through pickup distribution.

Highlandtown Main Street Available Spaces

Highlandtown is a fabulous location for your new or expanding business. We want to work with you to find the best location to fit your business needs.

Small Businesses

Ecosystem Builders

Information for Community & Business Leaders

Coronavirus 2019 Disease (COVID-19) Information for Community & Business Leaders Frequently Asked Questions

Small Businesses

Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Clinic

The Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Clinic (“IPEC”) provides pro bono assistance with a wide variety of intellectual property and business law issues. Law students will explore intellectual property needs with clients and will assist them in building various aspects of an IP portfolio.

Small Businesses

Iteration: A Digital Resource for Entrepreneurs

Iteration is TU Incubator's main communication that provides relevant news, events, and stories.

Small Businesses

Liquor License Board

The Board of Liquor License Commissioners is an agency of the State responsible for regulating the sale, storage, and distribution of retail alcoholic beverages in Baltimore City.

Small Businesses

MBX Events Calendar

MBX Members and 1st Time Guests are FREE and lunch or happy hour food is always included!

Small Businesses

MBX Local Networking Events

Welcome to Making Business Connection also know as (MBX). We currently host 4 Monthly Virtual Networking Events per month.

Small Businesses

The MBX Magazine is Exclusive for Members of the Maryland Business Connection (MBX).

Small Businesses

MDVLA Art Law Clinic

Through this program, our volunteer attorneys meet with artists for a 30-minute consultation to go over their short-form legal issues related to their creative endeavors.

Small Businesses

Artists or Creatives

MDVLA COVID-19 Topics for Artists, Entrepreneurs & Organizations

These FAQS are intended to be a reference for individual artists, entrepreneurs, arts & cultural organizations and creative small businesses facing the many complex and difficult issues arising from the COVID-19 crisis.

Small Businesses

Artists or Creatives

MDVLA Legal Referrals

Are you a Maryland artist in need of legal representation? At MdVLA, we provide pro bono legal referrals and services for artists who produce every kind of art form: from hip hop musicians to florists, makers to fiber artists—even puppeteers.

Small Businesses

MHCC Member Directory

Find local businesses relative to a specific geography, sector, or founder cohort.

Small Businesses

Founders of Color

MOED Career Centers

Our career center services are available at two, full-service One-Stop Career Centers located on the east and west sides of Baltimore City, the Employment Connection Center in South Baltimore, the Workforce Reception Center for those receiving TANF benefits, and partner sites in neighborhood-based Community Job Hubs.

Small Businesses

Made in Baltimore Community Map

Find local Made in Baltimore Member Makerspaces, Retailers and Production Spaces.

Small Businesses

Made in Baltimore Directory

Baltimore City is home to a vibrant community of talented makers. With nearly 200 member businesses in the Made In Baltimore network, we can connect you to a full range of locally made products. From cutting boards to kimchi, jewelry to jam, you’ll find a link to it here.

Small Businesses

Made in Baltimore Jobs Board

We intend for this page to be a resource for local makers and manufacturers seeking jobs, gigs, or contractors here in Baltimore City. Anyone may post jobs. Create a free account and find your perfect employee today!

Small Businesses

Artists or Creatives

The services are a resource to help entrepreneurs address the challenges of conducting market assessments. The goal is to improve the market assessment and opportunity analysis associated with the development of business plans and applications for TEDCO’s funding programs.

Maryland Business Relief Wizard

The Maryland Business Relief Wizard is a tool that helps connect businesses with the resources and programming for which they’re eligible, streamlining the process of finding support.

Small Businesses

Maryland Intellectual Property Legal Resource Center

Established in 2002 to educate law students, entrepreneurs, and the community about the legal aspects of intellectual property. As part of its mission, the MIPLRC also provides free legal services on intellectual property and related matters to emerging technology companies and explores relevant legal, ethical and policy issues in the high technology and intellectual property areas.

Maryland Minority Contractors Association Bid Opportunities

Hire top talent when you list your job positions here.

Small Businesses

Founders of Color

Female Founders

Maryland Minority Contractors Association Member Listings

Find local businesses relative to a specific geography, sector, or founder cohort.

Small Businesses

Founders of Color

Female Founders

Maryland Small Business Development Center Baltimore

If you are an aspiring entrepreneur or an existing business owner in Maryland… the Maryland Small Business Development Center (SBDC) offers FREE individualized consulting, from start up to established businesses.

Small Businesses

Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs Business Services

Find local businesses relative to a specific geography, sector, or founder cohort.

Small Businesses

Founders of Color

Minority and Women's Business Enterprise Certification

The Minority and Women's Business Opportunity Office certify firms as an MBE or WBE.

Small Businesses

Female Founders

Founders of Color

Network Advisors

Network with Maryland's top entrepreneurs to help your business grow.

Patch Baltimore Business

Patch is an innovative way to find out about, and participate in, what's going on near you.

Small Businesses

Pigtown Main Street Directory

Find local businesses relative to a specific geography, sector, or founder cohort.

Small Businesses

Procurement Technical Assistance Program (PTAP)

BDC’s Small Business Resource Center partners with the Maryland Procurement and Technical Assistance Center to help Baltimore City businesses prepare for and engage in the procurement process with federal, state and local government agencies.

Small Businesses

Resource Database for Students

Resources for Student Entrepreneurs Whether you are looking for an accelerator at your University or a national student entrepreneur competition, the Innov8MD Resource Guide has you covered.

Small Businesses

Student Founders

SBA Baltimore DIstrict Office Services

The Baltimore District Office is responsible for the delivery of SBA's programs and services to existing and prospective entrepreneurs in Baltimore City and all Maryland Counties, with the exception of Montgomery and Prince George's. Residents of Montgomery and Prince George's counties are served by the SBA's Washington Metro Area District Office

Small Businesses

Female Founders

Veteran Founders

Underserved Founders

Get the information you need to make smart decisions for your business.

Small Businesses

Skilling Up in a Remote World

As we continue to adjust to social distancing and remote communications, it's more important than ever to know where to go – virtually – to sharpen your skills to keep up in this challenging job market.

Small Businesses

Small Business Resource Guide to Navigating Coronavirus

Local, state and federal assistance for survival and recovery

Small Businesses

Small Business Technical Assistance

If you are a business affected by COVID-19 and need assistance navigating and applying to the various available programs, please fill out our Technical Assistance web form.

Small Businesses

Startup Involvement Database

TCO Labs, Inc. was founded in 2015 in order to help build the entrepreneurial ecosystem at the Johns Hopkins Homewood Campus and connect students to Baltimore’s innovation community. We believe that students should build things, and we do whatever we can to help make that happen.

Student Founders

State & Local Tax Preparation

On account of the complexity of the Federal tax code in the U.S., along with the potential difficulties in resolving conflicts and controversies, EDG helps both individuals and businesses file tax returns and solve their issues with the IRS. The objective of our organization’s Comprehensive Tax Assistance program is to provide free tax services and tax-related financial literacy to low-income individuals living in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

Small Businesses

Underserved Founders

Technical.ly Baltimore

We're a news organization that helps you navigate your local economy

The Community Law Center

Community Law Center offers legal services for nonprofit organizations in Maryland. Community Law Center’s programs are designed to provide the legal services a community or nonprofit organization in Maryland needs to meet its goals, achieve its mission, strengthen its community, and improve its neighborhood.

Venable LLP Pro Bono Legal Services

Venable has long recognized the importance of providing first-rate legal representation to those unable to afford a lawyer. We are proud to be among the signatories to the Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge.

Underserved Founders

Virtual Office Memberships

We understand the changing demands of the current landscape and put together a few options for the Virtual entrepreneur. While these memberships do not include any physical workspace at Betamore, some levels still provide access to our booking meeting space and drop-in co-working days when needed.

Small Businesses

Waverly Main Street Business Directory

Find local businesses relative to a specific geography, sector, or founder cohort.

Small Businesses

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