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Sources of Business Capital for Veterans
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As a Veteran looking to capitalize on a Business Opportunity,
you should know something about sources of capital.

Business Financing:

Unfortunately VA does not have loans or grants for the startup or
expansion of a small business.

Loans:

The Small Business Administration is the agency that has been tasked
with helping small businesses, for which they have several loan programs
established. You can learn more about the SBA program by logging onto

the SBA site at http://www.sba.gov.

You can acquire a listing of their Certified/Preferred Lenders at
http://www.sba.gov/gopher/Local-Information/Certified-Preferred-Lenders/.

Some states have micro loan programs that will help in the development
of a new business venture. To find out if your state has a program you
can contact the Small Business Development Centers in your state.
They are usually affiliated with a local university or college.

The development centers can help you establish a business plan and
will be aware of any of the state programs. You can acquire a listing of all
the centers in your state by going to
http://www.sba.gov/gopher/Local-Information/Small-Business-Development-Centers.

Grants:

Grants.gov allows organizations to electronically find and apply for
competitive grant opportunities from all Federal grant-making agencies.
Grants.gov is THE single access point for over 900 grant programs
offered by the 26 Federal grant-making agencies.
 
Other sites you may find useful:

Business Funding Capital Search Tool located at
http://www.businessfinance.com/

The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

The online Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance gives you access to
a databaseof all Federal programs available to State and local
governments (including the District of Columbia); federally -recognized
Indian tribal governments; Territories (and possessions) of the United
States; domestic public, quasi-public, and private profit and nonprofit
organizations and institutions; specialized groups; and individuals.  It is
located at http://12.46.245.173/cfda/cfda.html.

SBA Online Library Reading Room, at
 http://www.sba.gov/library/listfoo.html, for listings and directories of:

Business Information Centers (BICs)
Certificate of Competency Representatives (CoC's)
Certified/Preferred Lenders
Commercial Market Representatives (CMR's)
Local SBA Offices
Microloan Lender Participants
Offices of Small & Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU)
One Stop Capital Shops (OSCSs)
Procurement Center Representatives (PCR's)
SBIC Licensees
Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE)
Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs)
Small Business Investment Companies (SBICs)
Small Business Subcontracting Directory
Tribal Business Information Centers (TBICs)
U.S. Export Assistance Centers
 
At Ease!
Pat Kiggins, The Veteran’s Business Advocate
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Pat Kiggins is a successful business executive and even
started his own successful technology company in Dallas.
More importantly, Pat is a Veteran with several Purple
Hearts and has started his own Veteran-owned business
selling to the Government. Veteran Business News can be
found at http://www.VeteranBusinessNews.com.


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