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Small Business Audiences
SBA has programs and resources for everyone, regardless of age, gender, race, and financial status. Explore the options to find out how SBA can help you turn your business idea into a viable enterprise or expand your current business for sustained success.
- Women
The Small Business Act authorizes contracting officers to specifically limit, or set aside, certain requirements for competition solely among women-owned small businesses (WOSBs) or economically disadvantaged women owned small businesses ... - Native Americans
While the SBA doesn’t certify Native-owned small businesses, it does certify small businesses considered to be socially and economically disadvantaged under the nine-year 8(a) Business Development Program. Native-owned businesses are ... - 8(a) Business Development
UPDATES REGARDING CCR/SAM The General Services Administration (GSA) is moving the implementation date of the System for Award Management (SAM) from May 29, 2012 to the end of July 2012. The additional sixty days will allow federal agencies to ... - Minorities
SBA is a strong advocate of minority and special audiences, and we know doing business with the government, also called government contracting, can be a very lucrative endeavor for small businesses. In addition to the contract set-asides that ... - Veterans
If you are a veteran or a service-disabled veteran, there are many opportunities for you and your small business. It is important that you certify your small business as Veteran-Owned or Service Disabled Veteran-Owned so you can take advantage of ... - Youth Entrepreneurship
Opportunities for Young Entrepreneurs Young people of today are the entrepreneurs of the future. The SBA has developed a Teen Website designed to introduce young entrepreneurs to the concept of small business ownership as a viable career ... - 50+ Entrepreneurs
Are you tired of punching the clock for someone else, but think you can't find another job at your age? Are the kids out of the house, freeing you to re-enter the job market? Are you nearing retirement, but don't know what you will do ...