Deadline: 23-Nov-22
The Small Business Administration has announced the applications for the Veterans Business Outreach Center – Expansion.
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity is to invite proposals for funding from eligible non-profit organizations, local and state government agencies, private sector firm and institutions of higher education to provide quality training and counseling to veteran small business owners and entrepreneurs.
A key component of this Funding Opportunity is for applicants to provide training to transitioning military personnel and spouses through the Boots to Business (B2B) Training Program and to veterans and military spouses through the Reboot Training Program.
The Small Business Act (Act) provides for entrepreneurial training, business development assistance, counseling, and management assistance to small businesses owned and controlled by eligible veterans. Additionally, SBA is authorized to make grants and enter into contracts and cooperative agreements for the establishment and implementation of outreach programs to serve the veteran community.
Funding Information
- Award Ceiling: $400,000
- Award Floor: $50,000.
- Duration: Awards will be made for a base project period of 12 months, with up to four (4) continuation award periods of 12 months. Exercise of continuation awards is at SBA’s discretion and is subject to continuing program authority, availability of funds, and satisfactory performance by the Recipient organizations.
Eligibility Criteria
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In order to be eligible for this funding opportunity an applicant must:
- Be a nonprofit organization, local or state agency, private sector firm or institute of higher learning.
- Demonstrate a history of providing quality entrepreneurship or business management training to aspiring entrepreneurs or existing small business owners that are members of the following populations: veterans, service-disabled veterans, Reserve Component members, National Guard, transitioning service members, spouses of service members or veteran and other military family members interested in starting or growing a small business. The quality of a program can be demonstrated by new business starts, business expansions, number of contracts awarded, loans approved, jobs created and/or retained and connection or referrals to other programs such as SBA resource partners.
Ineligible
- The following applicants will automatically be considered ineligible and their applications will be rejected without being evaluated.
- Any organization that owes an outstanding and unresolved financial obligation to the federal government;
- Any organization that is currently suspended, debarred or otherwise prohibited from receiving awards of contracts or grants from the federal government;
- Any organization that has an outstanding and unresolved material deficiency reported under the requirements of the Single Audit Act or 2 C.F.R. 200 Subpart F “Audit Requirements” within the past three years;
- Any organization that has had a VBOC grant or cooperative agreement involuntarily terminated or non renewed by SBA for cause within the past year;
- Any organization that has filed for bankruptcy within the past five years;
- Any organization that proposes to serve as a pass-through and permit another organization to manage the day-to-day operations of the project; and/or
- Any organization that was convicted or had an officer or agent acting on its behalf convicted of a felony criminal violation under any Federal law within the preceding two years.
- Any organization that does not have an existing entrepreneurship training program for one of the populations described in Section 1.4 of this Funding Opportunity.
- Existing SBA Resource Partners, to include; Veterans Business Outreach Centers, Small Business Development Centers, SCORE and Women’s Business Centers. Host organizations of SBA Resource Partners are eligible to apply.
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For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=343965