Small-business mentoring group SCORE touts success

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The SCORE Foundation, a nonprofit business mentoring organization that works with small businesses, is tooting its own horn this week, perhaps in an effort to show that government funding has gone to good use.

The nationwide group of current and former business owners and executives hired the Gallup organization -- the same ones who do the polls -- to contact entrepreneurs who came in for advice in 2009 to see how they’re doing.

The pollsters found that businesses mentored by SCORE volunteers grossed a total of $38 billion in 2009, with an average of $314,000 per business. SCORE clients paid $752 million in taxes during the year, about $107 for every dollar spent by the government to help fund the organization.

SCORE provides mentors to both new and ongoing businesses, and also offers referrals to a variety of services. If you’ve worked with the group as a counselor or as an entrepreneur seeking advice, I’d be curious to know how it went.

To find out more about SCORE, click on this link to its website.

-- Sharon Bernstein