Bergen Small Business Development Center Recognizes Client with Success Award
By Mel Fabrikant Wednesday, December 23, 2009, 06:10 PM EST
Small businesses are considered the economy’s “engine.” In the case of small business owner James Dziekonski, engines are his business.
Dziekonski, owner of Tim’s Auto and Truck Care Center, LLC in Sussex, is the New Jersey Small Business Development Center at Bergen Community College 2009 Success Award winner. The SBDC, a private, national nonprofit organization supported by the U.S. Small Business Administration, provides no-cost counseling, seminars, workshops and certificate programs for existing and prospective business owners. Every year, each of the 11 centers of the SBDC recognizes a top client with the Success Award.
Dziekonski solicited assistance from the SBDC last year when a two-year hang-up caused by local permits and zoning approvals prevented him from closing on a loan and relocating his business. After turning to the SBDC, Regional Director Vince D’Elia helped him recast his financials, secure a secondary lender, revise his business plan, close on a loan and subsequently transplant his business from Unionville, N.Y. to Sussex.
D’Elia guided Dziekonski through the process. “Jim Dziekonski possesses the drive, determination and discipline necessary to achieve entrepreneurial success,” D’Elia said. “He is an example of the successes facilitated for small- and-medium-sized businesses by the SBDC.”As part of the Success Award, Dziekonski will attend a recognition event and receives a special membership in the Commerce and Industry Association of New Jersey.
Tim’s Auto and Truck Care Center is a full-service automotive, truck, motorcycle and ATV repair facility. For more information, please call (973) 875-6181or visit www.followmetotims.com
SBDCs are funded by the federal government, the state and host institutions, including Bergen Community College. Bergen’s SBDC is located at 355 Main Street, Hackensack; to reach center officials, please call (201) 489-8670 or visit www.bergen.edu New Jersey is home to 11 regional SBDCs.
Bergen Community College is a public two-year coeducational college, enrolling nearly 17,000 students in Associate in Arts, Associate in Science, and Associate in Applied Science degree programs and certificate programs. More than 15,000 students are enrolled in non-credit, professional courses through the Division of Continuing Education, the Institute for Learning in Retirement, the Philip J. Ciarco Jr. Learning Center, located at 355 Main Street, Hackensack, and Bergen at the Meadowlands, located at 1280 Wall Street West, Lyndhurst. Information about the College is available at www.bergen.edu or by phoning the Welcome Center at (201) 447-7200.
Dziekonski, owner of Tim’s Auto and Truck Care Center, LLC in Sussex, is the New Jersey Small Business Development Center at Bergen Community College 2009 Success Award winner. The SBDC, a private, national nonprofit organization supported by the U.S. Small Business Administration, provides no-cost counseling, seminars, workshops and certificate programs for existing and prospective business owners. Every year, each of the 11 centers of the SBDC recognizes a top client with the Success Award.
Dziekonski solicited assistance from the SBDC last year when a two-year hang-up caused by local permits and zoning approvals prevented him from closing on a loan and relocating his business. After turning to the SBDC, Regional Director Vince D’Elia helped him recast his financials, secure a secondary lender, revise his business plan, close on a loan and subsequently transplant his business from Unionville, N.Y. to Sussex.
D’Elia guided Dziekonski through the process. “Jim Dziekonski possesses the drive, determination and discipline necessary to achieve entrepreneurial success,” D’Elia said. “He is an example of the successes facilitated for small- and-medium-sized businesses by the SBDC.”As part of the Success Award, Dziekonski will attend a recognition event and receives a special membership in the Commerce and Industry Association of New Jersey.
Tim’s Auto and Truck Care Center is a full-service automotive, truck, motorcycle and ATV repair facility. For more information, please call (973) 875-6181or visit www.followmetotims.com
SBDCs are funded by the federal government, the state and host institutions, including Bergen Community College. Bergen’s SBDC is located at 355 Main Street, Hackensack; to reach center officials, please call (201) 489-8670 or visit www.bergen.edu New Jersey is home to 11 regional SBDCs.
Bergen Community College is a public two-year coeducational college, enrolling nearly 17,000 students in Associate in Arts, Associate in Science, and Associate in Applied Science degree programs and certificate programs. More than 15,000 students are enrolled in non-credit, professional courses through the Division of Continuing Education, the Institute for Learning in Retirement, the Philip J. Ciarco Jr. Learning Center, located at 355 Main Street, Hackensack, and Bergen at the Meadowlands, located at 1280 Wall Street West, Lyndhurst. Information about the College is available at www.bergen.edu or by phoning the Welcome Center at (201) 447-7200.
