Assistance program
Veterans Outreach Program
$82.0 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Small Business Administration, Small Business Administration
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements
- CFDA number
- 59.044
- What it does
- In accordance with Public Law 110-186, the organizations will provide information on small business ownership to service members and military spouses by facilitating and instructing the U.S. Small Business Administration’s “Introduction to Entrepreneurship†known as “Boots to Business†which is a course offered within the Department of Defense Transition Assistance Program (TAP). Additionally, these organizations will provide counseling, training, technical and financial skill development, comprehensive business assessments and mentoring to veteran, service disabled veteran, active duty, Reserve, Guard, and military spouse/survivor entrepreneurs and small business owners interested in starting new or expanding/diversifying established small businesses.
- Who benefits
- First beneficiaries are eligible veterans, active duty service members, Guard & Reserve members and military spouses who seek to start and manage a small business; second beneficiaries are all others.
- Who applies
- Eligible applicants may be education institutions, private businesses, veterans’ nonprofit community-based organizations, and Federal, State, local and tribal government agencies.
- Authorized by
- Small Business Act, Section 8(b)(17) (15 U.S.C. 637(b)(17))
- Program site
- http://www.sba.gov/ovbd ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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- Committed through this program
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Direct payments