The small business act provides for entrepreneurial training, business development assistance, counseling, and management assistance to small business owned and controlled by eligible veterans, as…

The Small Business Administration Office of Veterans Business Development awarded a $515,000 Project Grant to the Seattle Economic Development Fund under the Veterans Outreach Program (CFDA 59.044). The grant will fund entrepreneurial training, business development assistance, counseling, and management assistance to small businesses owned by eligible veterans in Seattle, Washington from May 1, 2022 to April 30, 2023.

In accordance with the program's authorizing legislation, the grantee will provide information on small business ownership to service members, veterans, and military spouses by facilitating and instructing the U.S. Small Business Administration's "Introduction to Entrepreneurship" course. The grantee will also enter into subawards with education institutions, private businesses, veterans nonprofits, and government agencies to establish and implement veteran and service-disabled veteran outreach programs focused on entrepreneurship and small business opportunities.

The small business act provides for entrepreneurial training, business development assistance, counseling, and management assistance to small business owned and controlled by eligible veterans, as well as the authority to make grants to, and enter into contracts and cooperative agreements with education institutions, private businesses, veterans' nonprofit community-based organizations, and federal, state, local, and tribal government agencies for the establishment of and implementation of outreach programs for veterans and service-disabled veterans.