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… Organizations in North Carolina ATLANTA – The U.S. Small Business Administration announced today that Warren County is … losses up to $2 million.  Applicants may be eligible for a loan amount increase up to 20 percent of their physical … Eligible mitigation improvements may now include a safe room or storm shelter to help protect property and …

… Damage Disaster Loans is Nov. 20 ATLANTA – The U.S. Small Business Administration is reminding eligible Private … with terms up to 30 years. Applicants may be eligible for a loan amount increase up to 20 percent of their physical … purposes.  Eligible mitigation improvements may include a safe room or storm shelter to help protect property and …

… When Ascension Rock Club hit the scene in Fairbanks a few years ago, it opened up the community to a brand new form of indoor exercise and socializing. By … with Russ Talvi, Fairbanks Director for the Alaska Small Business Development Center as he worked through the …

… (QCI) for help. Whatever the challenge, there are a variety of dispositions that retailers and factories … U.S. and possibly send to landfill or solve the issue with a U.S. partner such as QCI. A wide variety of products … of Economic Development, QCI applied for the U.S. Small Business Administration’s State Trade and Export Promotion …

… access to capital and other resources. Through the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program, small businesses … good. In August 2023, the SBIC program expanded to include a new debt instrument called the Accrual Debenture.  Through …

… development program administered by the Small Business Administration’s (SBA’s) Office of Entrepreneurship … Development. The SCORE Association (SCORE) is a single cooperative agreement recipient for the program. Established in 1964 as a national, volunteer nonprofit organization, SCORE has been …

… report presents the results of our audit of the Small Business Administration’s (SBA’s) State Trade Expansion … to states to carry out programs that assist eligible small business concerns in the state exploring significant new …

… Acts of 2016 and 2017 (the Acts) granted the Small Business Administration (SBA) the authority to accept gifts … gifts on behalf of SBA after proper approvals, including a conflict of interest determination by SBA’s Office of … may provide assistance for the benefit of small business through Agency-sponsored activities, through …

… by elected officials and loan reconsiderations.  As a result, the OIG reviewed these loans to determine if SBA … to overcome deficiencies.  The decisions involved a $736,300 working capital disaster loan and a $671,900 loan … the funds to relocate, not for working capital.  The other business also appeared to be ineligible for a loan increase …

… Improve Quality and Timeliness of HUBZone Certifications A review of whether the HUBZone program certification process … results of the OIG’s audit to determine whether the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) HUBZone program certification … process has been reengineered from self-certification to a full document review and we found that SBA properly …

… 2009 (Recovery Act). The Recovery Act provided the Small Business Administration (SBA) with $730 million to expand the … suspicious activity. To answer these objectives, based on a stratified random sample design, we randomly selected a sample of 120 ARC loans from a population of 4,559 ARC …

… of our audit of early-defaulted and early-problem 7(a) loans disbursed pursuant to the American Recovery and … final disbursement. The Recovery Act provided the Small Business Administration (SBA) with $730 million to expand the … the maximum guaranty percentage to 90 percent for most 7(a) loans. Office of Inspector General Effective: September …

… first review of the credit markets served by the U.S.Small Business Administration’s (SBA) lending programs since the … SBA publishes monthly performance reports, they provide a limited view of lending activity and the Recovery Act’s … To measure the impact of the Recovery Act, we established a baseline of 7(a) and 504 loan activity between January 1, …

… Prepared by the Office of Inspector General U. S. Small Business Administration U.S. Small Business Administration Memorandum Office of Inspector … The audit objectives were accomplished through a review of 117 loan files, which were statistically sampled …

… SBPAC Reports SBPAC Reports to Congress. Report The Small Business Procurement Advisory Council (SBPAC) was established … to submit an annual report to the Committee on Small Business of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship of the Senate. To see detailed …

… SBA's Corrective Actions to Reduce 8(a) Firms Eligibility Risks This report presents the inspection of SBA's Corrective Actions to Reduce 8(a) Firms Eligibility Risks Report 20-19 This report presents … Office of Inspector General audit reports on the 8(a) Business Development Program. Our most recent audits of SBA’s …

… collectively required to obligate 3 percent of their small business eligible dollars to Historically Under-utilized Business Zone (HUBZone)-certified small businesses, many have …