Tag: SBA
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New SBA Small Business Lending Records
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has announced that it achieved record levels in fiscal year 2016 small business lending through its 7(a) and 504 loan programs, along with noteworthy increases in lending to women, veterans and underserved communities.
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New Changes to SBA Mentor-Protégé Program
The Small Business Administration’s (SBA) 8(a) Business Development (8(a) BD Mentor-Protégé Program is crafted to enable successful companies to provide “forms of business development assistance” to 8(a) Program Participants. The program’s goal is enhancing the capacity of participants to “be competitive, achieve entrepreneurial success and contribute to the U.S. economy.”
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National Small Business Week May 1-7, 2016!
This year’s theme is “Dream Big, Start Small.” The SBA starts the week in the capital awarding outstanding small businesses in Washington, D.C. and hosting events throughout the United States. To view a complete list of the SBA’s Small Business Week events, please click here.
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Informing, Educating and Connecting Small Businesses
By SBA Staff America’s 28 million small businesses create about two out of every three new jobs in the U.S. each year, and more than half of all Americans either own or work for a small business. Small businesses play a key role in the economy and in the nation’s supply chain, and increasingly, they are…
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Attend NAWRB’s Women in Housing Financial Fitness Road Show
The National Association of Women in Real Estate Businesses (NAWRB) in collaboration with Veterans Preference Inc. presents the Women in Housing Financial Fitness Road Show and Military Women in Business on May 21 in San Diego, California. NAWRB’s road show will provide a specialized hybrid of women in housing and women in government outreach on…
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SBA Twitter Chat for Women Entrepreneurs
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) hosted a Twitter chat Wednesday afternoon to commemorate Women’s History Month while participants across the nation provided tips to women entrepreneurs interested in starting and growing a business. The hashtag for the chat, #SBAchat, trended throughout the day.
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SBA Announces Matchmaking Events through American Supplier Initiative
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has announced matchmaking events throughout 2015 which will expand the American Supplier Initiative. Created in 2012, the American Supplier Initiative supports American manufacturing by investing in the small businesses that comprise America’s suppliers.