The “Business and Bagels” business education series provides one-hour information sessions on topics like taxes and networking at the SCC Continuing Education Center, 301 S. 68th St. Place in Lincoln. The sessions, which cost $29, include breakfast or lunch. For more information or to register call (402) 437-2700. Upcoming topics:

• “The Business of Non-Profit” April 22 from 7:30-8:30 a.m. will cover organizational aspects of non-profit organizations, membership engagement and programs and services. Lori Warner, president of the Beatrice Area Chamber of Commerce, will be the instructor.
• “Customer Service Across the Generations,” will be held May 20 from 12:00-1:00 p.m. This session will look at how different generations vary in customer service expectations.
• “Networking at its Best with Bonnie Coffey,” on June 10 from 12:00-1:00 p.m. will close out the current series with a session on Coffey’s five steps to networking success.

Tim Mittan, SCC Entrepreneurship Center director and Linda Hartman, education specialist/recruiter, provide free one-on-one business coaching sessions for entrepreneurs at any business stage.

According to the center’s Web site, the center provides “information to help guide you through your start-up process or take your business to the next level.”

Both the business education sessions and the free coaching are designed to meet needs the SCC Entrepreneurship Center identified when center staff did research before opening the center. Mittan said center staff learned would-be entrepreneurs knew entrepreneurship resources existed in Nebraska but were unsure where to start.

“Nobody really had a definitive starting point. We decided we could be that starting point,” he said. “That’s how the center came about. We decided that we needed to have a place where people could come and ask questions,” Mittan said.

In addition to non-credit education sessions and free business coaching, the center offers entrepreneurship courses for credit, hosts a business incubator, and houses the Lincoln Public School’s Entrepreneurship Focus Program and the Information Technology Focus Program.