Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization
Treasury's Mentor-Protégé Program
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Business Learning, Information, Networking, and Collaboration - was launched
to coordinate and encourage business-to-business linkages that may improve the
economic competitiveness of smaller firms, including those located in economically
distressed areas. The initiative's broad goal was to encourage more private
sector business-to-business relationships in order to accelerate the success
of business ventures.
To further this effort, the Department of the Treasury has implemented a Mentor-Protégé
program, called Success Partnerships,which was implemented
in three phases:
Phase I began with a Treasury/SBA partnership to use the 8(a) program
and SBA's mentor-protégé program for developing 8(a) firms.
SBA's 8(a) mentor-protégé site. A listing of current SBA approved
8(a) mentor-protégé agreement participants can be found on
SBA's website.
Phase II encouraged agreements between large or small prime contractors who
act as mentors. Under phase II, all small businesses were
made eligible to participate in the program.
Phase III incorporated Veteran Owned Small Businesses and Service Disabled
Veteran Owned Small Businesses as well as the HUB Zone program into Treasury's
Mentor-Protégé Program.
All phases of the program are now in operation.
Updated January 14, 2003
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