Mentor Resource Hub

For your clients

The right handout, found in under a minute.

Every template, worksheet, guide and checklist we give to Maine small business owners — ready to email straight to your client.

Not sure what to search for? Browse by topic, business type or stage below, or start from a ready-made set. There are 45 resources in the library.

Find it by topic

Pick the subject your client is stuck on.

Specialty Business Type

Documents written for one industry rather than for businesses in general.

Client Stages

Choose the description that sounds most like the person sitting across from you.

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Stages are a first pass, worked out from each document’s title when the old hub was carried across — they have not been checked. The old hub held nothing for clients closing a business.

Start from a ready-made set

The documents already gathered for the situations that come up most often, in the order you would hand them over.

  • 6 resources 3 steps

    Starting a nonprofit

    For: Founders setting up a charity rather than a for-profit business.

    A nonprofit still needs a plan and a budget, but the legal setup, the board and the funding model all work differently.

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  • 7 resources 4 steps

    Starting a business

    For: A client with an idea who has not registered anything yet.

    The path from an idea to open for business. Work through one step per session rather than sending all of it at once.

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  • 5 resources 3 steps

    Opening a food business

    For: Food trucks, caterers and mobile eating places.

    Food businesses fail on licensing more often than on the food. The licensing question comes first here on purpose, because it often changes what is possible.

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Also worth sending clients

Public SCORE pages your client can visit themselves. These are outside this hub, so they are safe to share as links.

See the recorded workshops