SBA Creates Three New Veterans Business Outreach Centers

WASHINGTON – Three new Veterans Business Outreach Centers created by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) will join an existing center to provide nationwide entrepreneurial development services to eligible military veterans who own or are considering starting a small business.

“These Veterans Business Outreach Centers will provide a myriad of services including entrepreneurial training and guidance, educational workshops, financial guidance and assistance and mentoring,” said SBA Administrator Hector V. Barreto. “The contributions and sacrifices these men and women have given to our country are of inestimable value, and the SBA stands ready to support the President’s goals of helping veterans everywhere start and grow small businesses.”

Services provided by the centers include pre-business plan workshops that deal specifically with the major issues of self-employment; concept assessments to help access entrepreneurial needs and requirements; business plan preparations to help develop and maintain a five-year business plan; and comprehensive feasibility to help identify and analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the business plan.

Additional services include assistance and training in such areas as government contracting, Internet marketing, franchising and accounting.

The Veterans Business Outreach Centers now include:

The Research Foundation of the State University of New York
www.nyssbdc.org/vboc

The University of West Florida
www.vboc.org

The University of Texas - Pan American
www.coserve.org/vboc

Vietnam Veterans of California – VBOC
www.vboc-ca.org

For more information about SBA's Veterans Business Outreach Centers, visit www.sba.gov/VETS.