SBDC in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI)

updated eligibility type selections -

The SBDC program is the SBA's largest matching grant program, funding a service delivery network to provide high quality business and economic development assistance to small businesses and nascent entrepreneurs in order to promote growth, expansion, innovation, increased productivity, and management improvement. The SBDCs, in partnership with SBA's Office of Small Business Development Centers (OSBDC) and SBA District Offices, develop programs and provide business management and other services that enhance the economic development goals and objectives of SBA and their other respective state and local funding partners. The SBDC program is a broad-based system of assistance for the small business community that links the resources of Federal, state and local governments with those of the educational community and the private sector. Although SBA is responsible for the general management and oversight of the SBDC program, a partnership exists between SBA and the recipient organization to effectuate the delivery of assistance to the small business community.

Questions about this Notice of Funding Opportunity should be directed to the Office of Small Business Development Centers at SBDCGrantsq@sba.gov.

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) issues Program Announcement

No. OSBDC-2022-04 to invite applications from public or private institution of

higher education; a land-grant college or university; a college or school of

business, engineering, commerce, or agriculture; a community or junior college;

a currently operating Women's Business Center under § 29 of the Small

Business Act; or a combination of two or more of these entities and must

conduct a majority of its operations within the CNMI.

The SBDC program is the SBA's largest matching grant program, funding a

service delivery network to provide high quality business and economic

development assistance to small businesses and nascent entrepreneurs in order

to promote growth, expansion, innovation, increased productivity, and

management improvement. The SBDCs, in partnership with SBA's Office of

Small Business Development Centers

(OSBDC) and SBA District Offices, develop programs and provide business

management and other services that enhance the economic development goals

and objectives of SBA and their other respective state and local funding

partners. The SBDC program is a broad-based system of assistance for the

small business community that links the resources of Federal, state and local

governments with those of the educational community and the private sector.

Although SBA is responsible for the general management and oversight of the

SBDC program, a partnership exists between SBA and the recipient organization

to effectuate the delivery of assistance to the small business community.

Questions about this Notice of Funding Opportunity should be directed to the

Office of Small Business Development Centers at SBDCGrantsq@sba.gov.