Professional and Occupational Licensing Boards - Main Page
POL is responsible for licensing and regulating the activities of more than 139 professions and occupations with a license base of more than 234,000 individuals and businesses. Our goal through these activities is to make South Carolina a better and safer place to work and live.
SBA Online Women's Business Center
The U.S. Small Business Administration is doing more than ever to help level the playing field for women entrepreneurs, and the SBA's Office of Women's Business Ownership is leading the way. OWBO promotes the growth of women-owned businesses through programs that address business training and technical assistance, and provide access to credit and capital, federal contracts, and international trade opportunities. With a women's business ownership representative in every SBA district office, a nationwide network of mentoring roundtables, women's business centers in nearly every state and territory, women-owned venture capital companies, and the Online Women's Business Center, OWBO is helping unprecedented numbers of women start and build successful businesses.
Small and Minority Business Assistance Home Page
The mission of OSMBA is to promote the interest of small and minority businesses as a part of the free enterprise system, thereby enhancing economic growth and development in South Carolina.
