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Program Synopsis –Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV)

Program Announcement No. EBV -2013-01

General Information

Document Type: Grant Notice

Funding Opportunity Number: EBV – 2013-01

Posted Date: October 22, 2012

Original Due Date for Applications: November 22, 2012

Archive Date:

Funding Instrument Type: Cooperative Agreement

Category of Funding Activity Administrative –Capacity Building

Explanation of “Other” Category of

Funding Activity:

Small Business Act

Expected Number of Awards: 1 or more

Estimated Total Program Funding: $450,000

Award Floor: $25,000

Award Ceiling: $150,000

CDFA Number 59.044

Cost Sharing or Matching

Requirement:

No

Eligible Applicants:

An eligible candidate is a Public or Private recipient educational organization interested in obtaining administrative funding to further build the institutions capacity to market and promote their existing EBV Program to post 9/11 service-disabled veterans and to expand their existing Consortium of world-class, 4-year Colleges and Universities that offer entrepreneurship training to service-disabled veterans from the Wars in Iraq and

Afghanistan.

Description:

Program Announcement No. EBV -2013-01

U.S. Small Business Administration / Office of Veterans Business Development

(OVBD)

OPENING DATE: October 17, 2012

CLOSING DATE: November 17, 2012

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) issues Program Announcement No. EV -

2013-01 to public or private organizations and Institutions of Higher Education as authorized by Section 9 (b) (17) of the Small Business Act, USC, 673 (b) (17).

The Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities is a specialized training program designed to assist institutions in further building their capacity to market and promote their existing EBV Program to post 9/11 service-disabled veterans as potential candidates, and expand their existing Consortium of renowned 4-year Institutions of

Higher Learning that provide world-class entrepreneurship and business management training programs to service-disabled veterans, with the intent of starting new or expanding/diversifying existing small business or starting nonprofit organizations.

Questions about this program announcement should be directed to the Office of Veterans

Business Development at 202-205-6773.

Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities – EBV-2013-01 http://www.sba.gov/about-offices-content/1/2985