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<span style="color:#333F50;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#333F50;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Small Business Resource Center</span></a> (SBRC) found in the MeL Databases list and the
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Small Business Development Center <a href="http://www.sbdcmichigan.org/"><span style="color:#333F50;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#333F50;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">SBDC Michigan</span></a>,
</span><span style="color:#333F50;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#333F50;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><a href="http://www.michiganbusiness.org/#home-intro"><span style="color:#333F50;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#333F50;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Michigan
Economic Development Corporation</span></a> (MEDC), </span><span style="color:#333F50;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#333F50;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">and State of Michigan’s
<a href="http://www.michigan.gov/business"><span style="color:#333F50;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#333F50;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Business One Stop</span></a>. The SBRC includes content from the
<i>Business Plans Handbook</i> series, directory listings, journal and magazine articles which are updated every 24 hours, and much more. Over 50 Business Topics, 50 Business Types, and 100s of sample business plans are covered. Conveniently, the “Forms”
option links directly to another MeL database, <a href="http://galesupport.com/legalforms_branding/splashPage.php?loc=lom_accessmich">
<span style="color:#044A91;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#044A91;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Gale Legal Forms Library</span></a>. Michigan is on the upswing again and MeL is here to play a part in the economic recovery efforts.
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<span style="color:#323E4F">February is Career and Technical Education Month. Find out more:
</span><a href="http://michigan.gov/cte-bestpractices"><span style="color:blue">http://michigan.gov/cte-bestpractices</span></a><span style="color:#323E4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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