The Small Business Institute, Sid Craig School of Business, was started in 1975, one of the first in the United States. The Institute provides assistance to entrepreneurs in starting or expanding their business in the California Central Valley.  It is one of the largest and most active in the United States with over 2,000 businesses and organizations and more than 7,000 students participating over the years. 

The resources used in this web site were developed with major sponsorships by Wells Fargo Bank, the Business Associates, California Bank and Trust, American Ambulance, the Alfred Erickson Foundation, the Sid Craig School of Business, and California State University, Fresno.