WVETPsynopsis2020.pdf

Document Type: Grant

Funding Number: WVETP-2020-01

Date Posted: February 19, 2020

Original Date: February 19, 2020

Funding Instrument Type: Cooperative Agreement

Spending Category Business Training Management/Oversight

Other Category Explanation: Small Business Act

Number of Awards: Up to six (6)

Estimated funding: $300,000.00

Award Floor: $25,000.00

Award Ceiling: $300,000.00

CFDA Number 59.044 – WVETP

Cost Sharing/Matching: No

Eligible Applicants:

The purpose of this Program Announcement is to invite proposals for funding from eligible non-profit organizations, local and state agencies and institutions of higher learning to further build their capacity to market and deliver their existing entrepreneurship training program(s) to women service members and veterans as well as women military spouses who aspire to be small business owners or currently own a small business.

Description:

The eligible applicants with established training programs provide entrepreneurship training to female veteran small business owners and entrepreneurs, to female transitioning service members and to spouses of veterans with outcomes that reflect new business starts, job creation/retention, and income generation that results in the establishment of and expansion of existing small firms owned by female veterans and spouses of veterans.

WVETP-2020-01

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

(OVBD)

OPENING DATE: February 19, 2020

CLOSING DATE: March 19, 2020

U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) issues this Program Announcement WVETP-

2020-01 to public and private organizations and Institutions of Higher Learning as authorized by Section 8(b)(17) of the Small Business Act, USA 6(b)(17).

The Women’s Veteran Entrepreneurship Training Program (WVETP) provides entrepreneurship training to female veteran small business owners and entrepreneurs, with a special emphasis on entrepreneurship instruction designed result in the startup of new firms owned and controlled by to female veterans and in the expansion of established small business owned and controlled by female veterans resulting in outcomes that reflect revenue generation which creates new jobs and retains existing ones, spears contract awards and capital acquisition, increases in tax revenues and disposable income.

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

Business Development at SBA to jerry.godwin@sba.gov.

Link to full announcement: OVBD: https://www.sba.gov/offices/headquarters/ovbd/ mailto:jerry.godwin@sba.gov https://www.sba.gov/offices/headquarters/ovbd/