A 10,500-member volunteer nonprofit association which operates under cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration with more than 40 years experience helping small businesses succeed, matches volunteer business-management counselors with clients in need of expert advice.

SCORE has experts in virtually every area of business management and maintains a national skills roster to help identify the best counselor for a particular client.  Volunteer counselors, whose collective experience spans the full range of American enterprise, share their management and technical expertise with both current and prospective small business owners. 

Most SCORE volunteers are retired business owners or managers, though some members are still actively employed.  Volunteers work in or near their home communities providing management counseling and training to first-time entrepreneurs and current small business owners.  They meet with clients at a SCORE chapter office, an SBA office or at the client's place of business.

SCORE can also be found on the Internet at www.score.org.  The Internet makes it possible to reach more small business clients with online mentoring and counseling.

SCORE is primed to meet their requests for help by offering e-mail counseling, maps to local SCORE chapters, hotlinks to other business resources on the Internet and more at the click of a mouse.  

E-mail counseling is provided by the Cyberchapter, which now includes more than 1,200 online members.  You can choose from almost 800 unique skills to find the cybercounselor who best suits your individual needs, including special counseling for veterans, service-disabled veterans and Reserve component members. SCORE also offers more than 30 online training workshops on topics for small businesses.  Log on to SCORE's Internet site 

Baltimore – SCORE Chapter No. 3
(410) 962-2233
baltimorescore@verizon.net

Hagerstown – SCORE Chapter No. 539
(301) 739-2015

Mid-Shore SCORE – Chapter No. 626
(410) 822-4606
score626@goeaston.net

Lower Shore – SCORE Chapter No. 298
(410) 749-0144

Southern Maryland – SCORE Chapter No. 390
(410) 266-9553
SCORE390@aol.com

Prince George’s and Montgomery Counties
Call Washington DC – SCORE Chapter No. 1
(202) 606-4000 ext. 287

Upper Shore SCORE – Chapter No. 670
(410) 348-5392

Western Maryland SCORE – Chapter No. 682
(301) 722-2773