SBA: Administrator Addresses Federal Regulatory Reform; Small Businesses Encouraged to Comment on SBA Regulations
Administrator Linda McMahon, head of the U.S. Small Business Administration, today encouraged small businesses to comment on the Federal Register notice posted earlier this month. The notice is in response to President Trump’s Executive Order 13777 which aims to ease the burdens placed on America’s small businesses. Under this Executive Order all federal agencies are…
SBA: Grants Awarded to 21 State and Local Economic Development Entities, SBDCs, and Universities to Support R&D Commercialization and Small Business Innovation
The U.S. Small Business Administration has granted up to $125,000 awards in FY 2017 to 16 Federal and State Technology (FAST) Partnership Program recipients including state and local economic development entities, small business development centers, colleges and universities and up to $200,000 awards to five Small Business Technology Development Centers (SBTDCs) that provide support to…
SBA: White House Hosts Small Business Owners During American Dream Week
WASHINGTON – More than 100 small business owners from around the country voiced concerns about taxes, regulations and the need for a skilled workforce at a forum hosted by President Trump at the White House on Tuesday. “America is on the verge of a golden age for small business,” Trump said. “We are ending job-killing…
SBA: Ignite Tour Blazes Across Country
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Administrator Linda McMahon, the head of the U.S. Small Business Administration, today announced the SBA Ignite Tour—a national outreach campaign aimed at fueling small businesses with tools and resources to grow their companies and create more American jobs. McMahon will tour more than 60 cities in two years. Throughout the tour McMahon…
Census Bureau: Number of Minority-Owned Employer Firms Increased in 2015
Minority-owned employer firms in the United States increased by approximately 4.9 percent in 2015 to 996,248 from 949,318 in 2014, according to findings from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2015 Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs. Payroll and employment for minority-owned employer firms in the nation also increased from 2014 to 2015 by approximately 7.0 percent ($237.5 billion…
SBA: Ignite Tour Blazes Across the Country
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Administrator Linda McMahon, the head of the U.S. Small Business Administration, today announced the SBA Ignite Tour—a national outreach campaign aimed at fueling small businesses with tools and resources to grow their companies and create more American jobs. McMahon will tour more than 60 cities in two years. Throughout the tour McMahon…
SBA: Nonprofit Organizations Receive Funding for Providing “Boots to Business” Entrepreneurship Training
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Small Business Administration has awarded a total of $2,324,100 to two nonprofit organizations providing “Boots to Business” entrepreneurship training to military service members, military spouses and veterans. This funding, offered by SBA’s Office of Veterans Business Development, will enable the two organizations to deliver Boots to Business—the entrepreneurship track of the Department…
SBA: One Month Left to Apply for Disaster Loans in MO, AR and TN
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Director Tanya N. Garfield of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Disaster Field Operations Center-West today reminded small nonfarm businesses in 11 Missouri counties and neighboring Arkansas and Tennessee counties of the July 10, 2017, deadline to apply for an SBA federal disaster loan for economic injury. These low-interest loans are to offset economic losses because…