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 New Leaf, Inc. a $296,065 Project Grant under the Veterans Outreach Program (CFDA 59.044) to provide entrepreneurial training and business development assistance to eligible veterans and military spouses from May 1, 2022 to April 30, 2023.

In accordance with the program's authorizing statute, A New Leaf will deliver information on small business ownership and facilitate instruction of the SBA's "Introduction to Entrepreneurship" curriculum to service members and their spouses. The grant funds will support A New Leaf's outreach efforts in Mesa, Arizona to establish and implement programs that offer entrepreneurial counseling, management assistance, and other resources to veterans and service-disabled veterans seeking to start or grow small businesses.

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.