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Congress has also explored ways to improve the SBA\u2019s measurement of the programs\u2019 effectiveness.\nThis report examines the historical development of federal small business management and technical assistance training programs; describes their current structures, operations, and budgets; and assesses their administration and oversight and the measures used to determine their effectiveness. It also discusses legislation to improve program performance, including the following:\nP.L. 114-88, the Recovery Improvements for Small Entities After Disaster Act of 2015 (RISE After Disaster Act of 2015), which, among other things, authorizes the SBA to provide up to two years of additional funding to its resource partners to assist small businesses located in a presidentially declared major disaster area and authorizes SBDCs to provide assistance outside the SBDC\u2019s state, without regard to geographical proximity to the SBDC, if the small business is in a presidentially declared major disaster area. This assistance can be provided \u201cfor a period of not more than two years after the date on which the President\u201d has declared the area a major disaster.\nP.L. 115-141, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018, among other provisions, relaxed requirements that Microloan intermediaries may spend no more than 25% of Microloan technical assistance grant funds on prospective borrowers and no more than 25% of those funds on contracts with third parties to provide that technical assistance by increasing those percentages to no more than 50% (originally in H.R. 2056, the Microloan Modernization Act of 2017, and S. 526, the Microloan Modernization Act of 2018).\nH.R. 1774, the Developing the Next Generation of Small Businesses Act of 2017, which includes legislative language from the Small Business Development Centers Improvement Act of 2017 (H.R. 1702), the Women\u2019s Business Centers Improvements Act of 2017 (H.R. 1680), and the SCORE for Small Business Act of 2017 (H.R. 1700). The bill would require the SBA to use only authorized entrepreneurial development programs (SCORE, WBCs, SBDCs, etc.) to deliver specified entrepreneurial development services; add data collection and reporting requirements for SBDCs; authorize to be appropriated $21.75 million for WBCs for each of FY2018-FY2021 (WBCs currently receive $18.0 million); increase the WBC annual grant award from not more than $150,000 to not more than $185,000 (adjusted annually to reflect change in inflation); authorize the award of an additional $65,000 to WBCs under specified circumstances; authorize the SBA to waive, in whole or in part, the WBC nonfederal matching requirement for up to two consecutive fiscal years under specified circumstances; modify SCORE program requirements with respect to the role of participating volunteers, program plans and goals, and reporting; and add language concerning the provision and reporting of online counseling by SCORE.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": true, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/R41352", "sha1": "45ba006cf65510f55da70064c166e98d6a1a3b4c", "filename": "files/20180329_R41352_45ba006cf65510f55da70064c166e98d6a1a3b4c.html", "images": {} }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/R41352", "sha1": "9927348a252c48f45a7bca8bf8808906de70a1ab", "filename": "files/20180329_R41352_9927348a252c48f45a7bca8bf8808906de70a1ab.pdf", "images": {} } ], "topics": [ { "source": "IBCList", "id": 4832, "name": "Small Business" } ] }, { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 573349, "date": "2017-09-25", "retrieved": "2017-10-02T22:12:03.748140", "title": "Small Business Management and Technical Assistance Training Programs", "summary": "The Small Business Administration (SBA) has provided technical and managerial assistance to small businesses since it began operations in 1953. Initially, the SBA provided its own small business management and technical assistance training programs. Over time, the SBA has relied increasingly on third parties to provide that training. \nCongressional interest in the SBA\u2019s management and technical assistance training programs has increased in recent years, primarily because these programs are viewed as a means to assist small businesses in creating and retaining jobs. The SBA spent about $224.1 million on these programs in FY2017. These programs fund about \u201c14,000 resource partners,\u201d including 63 lead small business development centers (SBDCs) and more than 900 SBDC local outreach locations, 109 women\u2019s business centers (WBCs), and 320 chapters of the mentoring program, SCORE. The SBA reports that more than 1 million aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners receive training from an SBA-supported resource partner each year. The SBA argues that these programs contribute \u201cto the long-term success of these businesses and their ability to grow and create jobs.\u201d\nThe Department of Commerce also provides management and technical assistance training for small businesses. For example, its Minority Business Development Agency provides training to minority business owners to assist them in obtaining contracts and financial awards.\nSome have argued that the SBA could improve program efficiency by eliminating the duplication of services or increasing cooperation and coordination both within and among SCORE, WBCs, and SBDCs. Congress has also explored ways to improve the SBA\u2019s measurement of the programs\u2019 effectiveness.\nThis report examines the historical development of federal small business management and technical assistance training programs; describes their current structures, operations, and budgets; and assesses their administration and oversight and the measures used to determine their effectiveness. It also discusses legislation to improve program performance and oversight, including the following:\nP.L. 114-88, the Recovery Improvements for Small Entities After Disaster Act of 2015 (RISE After Disaster Act of 2015), which, among other things, authorizes the SBA to provide up to two years of additional funding to its resource partners to assist small businesses located in a presidentially declared major disaster area and authorizes SBDCs to provide assistance outside the SBDC\u2019s state, without regard to geographical proximity to the SBDC, if the small business is in a presidentially declared major disaster area. This assistance can be provided \u201cfor a period of not more than two years after the date on which the President\u201d has declared the area a major disaster.\nH.R. 1774, the Developing the Next Generation of Small Businesses Act of 2017, which includes legislative language from the Small Business Development Centers Improvement Act of 2017 (H.R. 1702), the Women\u2019s Business Centers Improvements Act of 2017 (H.R. 1680), and the SCORE for Small Business Act of 2017 (H.R. 1700). The bill would require the SBA to use only authorized entrepreneurial development programs (SCORE, WBCs, SBDCs, etc.) to deliver specified entrepreneurial development services; add data collection and reporting requirements for SBDCs; authorize to be appropriated $21.75 million for WBCs for each of FY2018-FY2021 (WBCs currently receive $18.0 million); increase the WBC annual grant award from not more than $150,000 to not more than $185,000 (adjusted annually to reflect change in inflation); authorize the award of an additional $65,000 to WBCs under specified circumstances; authorize the SBA to waive, in whole or in part, the WBC nonfederal matching requirement for up to two consecutive fiscal years under specified circumstances; modify SCORE program requirements with respect to the role of participating volunteers, program plans and goals, and reporting; authorize to be appropriated $10.5 million for SCORE in each of FY2017 and FY2018 (SCORE currently receives $10.5 million); and add language concerning the provision and reporting of online counseling by SCORE.\nH.R. 2056, the Microloan Modernization Act of 2017, and its Senate companion bill (S. 526), which would, among other provisions, eliminate the requirement that intermediaries may spend no more than 25% of Microloan technical assistance grant funds on prospective borrowers or on contracts with third parties to provide technical assistance.\nThe House-passed version of H.R. 2810, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018, includes provisions similar to those concerning WBCs, SBDCs, and SCORE in H.R. 1774. These provisions are not included in the Senate-passed version of H.R. 2810.\nH.R. 3280, the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2018, includes a provision to change the requirement that intermediaries may spend no more than 25% of Microloan technical assistance grant funds on prospective borrowers or on contracts with third parties to provide technical assistance to no more than 50% of Microloan technical assistance grant funds. The legislative language in H.R. 3280 is included in the House-passed omnibus appropriations bill for FY2018 (H.R. 3354, the Make America Secure and Prosperous Appropriations Act).", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": true, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/R41352", "sha1": "4fbd959a4ccb691a15fef5510c574a973b1c0003", "filename": "files/20170925_R41352_4fbd959a4ccb691a15fef5510c574a973b1c0003.html", "images": {} }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/R41352", "sha1": "be4db6a6bb9caba056712c5c834e2da083867fc9", "filename": "files/20170925_R41352_be4db6a6bb9caba056712c5c834e2da083867fc9.pdf", "images": {} } ], "topics": [ { "source": "IBCList", "id": 4832, "name": "Small Business" } ] }, { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 461550, "date": "2017-05-26", "retrieved": "2017-08-22T14:37:33.337155", "title": "Small Business Management and Technical Assistance Training Programs", "summary": "The Small Business Administration (SBA) has provided technical and managerial assistance to small businesses since it began operations in 1953. Initially, the SBA provided its own small business management and technical assistance training programs. Over time, the SBA has relied increasingly on third parties to provide that training. \nCongressional interest in the SBA\u2019s management and technical assistance training programs has increased in recent years, primarily because these programs are viewed as a means to assist small businesses in creating and retaining jobs. The SBA is expected to spend about $224.1 million on these programs in FY2017. These programs fund about \u201c14,000 resource partners,\u201d including 63 lead small business development centers (SBDCs) and more than 900 SBDC local outreach locations, 109 women\u2019s business centers (WBCs), and 320 chapters of the mentoring program, SCORE. The SBA reports that more than 1 million aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners receive training from an SBA-supported resource partner each year. The SBA argues that these programs contribute \u201cto the long-term success of these businesses and their ability to grow and create jobs.\u201d\nThe Department of Commerce also provides management and technical assistance training for small businesses. For example, its Minority Business Development Agency provides training to minority business owners to assist them in obtaining contracts and financial awards.\nSome have argued that the SBA could improve program efficiency by eliminating the duplication of services or increasing cooperation and coordination both within and among SCORE, WBCs, and SBDCs. Congress has also explored ways to improve the SBA\u2019s measurement of the programs\u2019 effectiveness.\nThis report examines the historical development of federal small business management and technical assistance training programs; describes their current structures, operations, and budgets; and assesses their administration and oversight and the measures used to determine their effectiveness. It also discusses legislation to improve program performance and oversight, including the following:\nP.L. 114-88, the Recovery Improvements for Small Entities After Disaster Act of 2015 (RISE After Disaster Act of 2015), which, among other things, authorizes the SBA to provide up to two years of additional funding to its resource partners to assist small businesses located in a presidentially declared major disaster area and authorizes SBDCs to provide assistance outside the SBDC\u2019s state, without regard to geographical proximity to the SBDC, if the small business is in a presidentially declared major disaster area. This assistance can be provided \u201cfor a period of not more than two years after the date on which the President\u201d has declared the area a major disaster.\nH.R. 1774, the Developing the Next Generation of Small Businesses Act of 2017, which includes legislative language from the Small Business Development Centers Improvement Act of 2017 (H.R. 1702), the Women\u2019s Business Centers Improvements Act of 2017 (H.R. 1680), and the SCORE for Small Business Act of 2017 (H.R. 1700). The bill would require the SBA to use only authorized entrepreneurial development programs (SCORE, WBCs, SBDCs, etc.) to deliver specified entrepreneurial development services; add data collection and reporting requirements for SBDCs; authorize to be appropriated $21.75 million for WBCs for each of FY2018-FY2021 (WBCs were appropriated $18.0 million in FY2017); increase the WBC annual grant award from not more than $150,000 to not more than $185,000 (adjusted annually to reflect change in inflation); authorize the award of an additional $65,000 to WBCs under specified circumstances; authorize the SBA to waive, in whole or in part, the WBC nonfederal matching requirement for up to two consecutive fiscal years under specified circumstances; modify SCORE program requirements with respect to the role of participating volunteers, program plans and goals, and reporting; authorize to be appropriated $10.5 million for SCORE in each of FY2017 and FY2018 (SCORE was appropriated $10.5 million in FY2017); and add language concerning the provision and reporting of online counseling by SCORE.\nH.R. 2056, the Microloan Modernization Act of 2017, and its Senate companion bill (S. 526), which would, among other provisions, eliminate the requirement that intermediaries may spend no more than 25% of Microloan technical assistance grant funds on prospective borrowers or on contracts with third parties to provide technical assistance.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": true, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/R41352", "sha1": "d048283e826bd169eafd82d5bb9089f85af40cc2", "filename": "files/20170526_R41352_d048283e826bd169eafd82d5bb9089f85af40cc2.html", "images": {} }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/R41352", "sha1": "45110bebe14ffcbb2419effa457e430162c0e4f4", "filename": "files/20170526_R41352_45110bebe14ffcbb2419effa457e430162c0e4f4.pdf", "images": {} } ], "topics": [ { "source": "IBCList", "id": 4832, "name": "Small Business" } ] }, { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 461433, "date": "2017-05-19", "retrieved": "2017-05-24T16:15:36.303437", "title": "Small Business Management and Technical Assistance Training Programs", "summary": "The Small Business Administration (SBA) has provided technical and managerial assistance to small businesses since it began operations in 1953. Initially, the SBA provided its own small business management and technical assistance training programs. Over time, the SBA has relied increasingly on third parties to provide that training. \nCongressional interest in the SBA\u2019s management and technical assistance training programs has increased in recent years, primarily because these programs are viewed as a means to assist small businesses create and retain jobs. The SBA is expected to spend about $210.1 million on these programs in FY2016. These programs fund about \u201c14,000 resource partners,\u201d including 63 lead small business development centers (SBDCs) and more than 900 SBDC local outreach locations, 111 women\u2019s business centers (WBCs), and 320 chapters of the mentoring program, SCORE. The SBA reports that more than 1 million aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners receive training from an SBA-supported resource partner each year. The SBA argues that these programs contribute \u201cto the long-term success of these businesses and their ability to grow and create jobs.\u201d\nThe Department of Commerce also provides management and technical assistance training for small businesses. For example, its Minority Business Development Agency provides training to minority business owners to assist them in obtaining contracts and financial awards.\nSome have argued that the SBA could improve program efficiency by eliminating the duplication of services or increasing cooperation and coordination both within and among SCORE, WBCs, and SBDCs. Congress has also explored ways to improve the SBA\u2019s measurement of the programs\u2019 effectiveness.\nThis report examines the historical development of federal small business management and technical assistance training programs; describes their current structures, operations, and budgets; and assesses their administration and oversight and the measures used to determine their effectiveness. It also discusses legislation to improve program performance and oversight, including the following:\nP.L. 114-88, the Recovery Improvements for Small Entities After Disaster Act of 2015 (RISE After Disaster Act of 2015), which, among other things, authorizes the SBA to provide up to two years of additional funding to its resource partners to assist small businesses located in a presidentially declared major disaster area and authorizes SBDCs to provide assistance outside the SBDC\u2019s state, without regard to geographical proximity to the SBDC, if the small business is in a presidentially declared major disaster area. This assistance can be provided \u201cfor a period of not more than two years after the date on which the President\u201d has declared the area a major disaster.\nH.R. 1774, the Developing the Next Generation of Small Businesses Act of 2017, which includes the Small Business Development Centers Improvement Act of 2017 (H.R. 1702), the Women\u2019s Business Centers Improvements Act of 2017 (H.R. 1680), and the SCORE for Small Business Act of 2017 (H.R. 1700). The bill would require the SBA to only use authorized entrepreneurial development programs (SCORE, WBCs, SBDCs, etc.) \u201cto deliver entrepreneurial development services, entrepreneurial education, support for the development and maintenance of clusters, or business training\u201d; add data collection and reporting requirements for SBDCs; authorize to be appropriated $21.75 million for WBCs for each of FY2018-FY2021 (WBCs were appropriated $18 million in FY2017); increase the WBC annual grant award from not more than $150,000 to not more than $185,000 (adjusted annually to reflect change in inflation); authorize the award of an additional $65,000 to WBCs under specified circumstances; authorize the SBA to waive, in whole or in part, the WBC nonfederal matching requirement for up to two consecutive fiscal years under specified circumstances; modify SCORE program requirements with respect to the role of participating volunteers, program plans and goals, and reporting; authorize to be appropriated $10.5 million for SCORE in each of FY2017 and FY2018 (SCORE was appropriated $10.5 million in FY2017); and add language concerning the provision and reporting of online counseling by SCORE.\nH.R. 2056, the Microloan Modernization Act of 2017, and its Senate companion bill (S. 526), which would, among other provisions, eliminate the requirement that intermediaries may spend no more than 25% of Microloan technical assistance grant funds on prospective borrowers or on contracts with third-parties to provide technical assistance.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": true, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/R41352", "sha1": "7dd0c4231fdf2f5397d071866867af0a29369fe9", "filename": "files/20170519_R41352_7dd0c4231fdf2f5397d071866867af0a29369fe9.html", "images": null }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/R41352", "sha1": "630018dd35e786735be807e3bd8c20f5c303edb1", "filename": "files/20170519_R41352_630018dd35e786735be807e3bd8c20f5c303edb1.pdf", "images": null } ], "topics": [ { "source": "IBCList", "id": 4832, "name": "Small Business" } ] }, { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 456212, "date": "2016-09-29", "retrieved": "2016-10-17T19:22:43.669955", "title": "Small Business Management and Technical Assistance Training Programs", "summary": "The Small Business Administration (SBA) has provided technical and managerial assistance to small businesses since it began operations in 1953. Initially, the SBA provided its own small business management and technical assistance training programs. Over time, the SBA has relied increasingly on third parties to provide that training. \nCongressional interest in the SBA\u2019s management and technical assistance training programs has increased in recent years, primarily because these programs are viewed as a means to assist small businesses create and retain jobs. The SBA is expected to spend about $210.1 million on these programs in FY2016. These programs fund about \u201c14,000 resource partners,\u201d including 63 lead small business development centers (SBDCs) and more than 900 SBDC local outreach locations, 111 women\u2019s business centers (WBCs), and 320 chapters of the mentoring program, SCORE. The SBA reports that more than 1 million aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners receive training from an SBA-supported resource partner each year. The SBA argues that these programs contribute \u201cto the long-term success of these businesses and their ability to grow and create jobs.\u201d\nThe Department of Commerce also provides management and technical assistance training for small businesses. For example, its Minority Business Development Agency provides training to minority business owners to assist them in obtaining contracts and financial awards.\nSome have argued that the SBA could improve program efficiency by eliminating the duplication of services or increasing cooperation and coordination both within and among SCORE, WBCs, and SBDCs. Congress has also explored ways to improve the SBA\u2019s measurement of the programs\u2019 effectiveness.\nThis report examines the historical development of federal small business management and technical assistance training programs; describes their current structures, operations, and budgets; and assesses their administration and oversight and the measures used to determine their effectiveness. It also discusses legislation considered during the 114th Congress to improve program performance and oversight, including \nP.L. 114-88, the Recovery Improvements for Small Entities After Disaster Act of 2015 (RISE After Disaster Act of 2015), which, among other things, authorizes the SBA to provide up to two years of additional funding to its resource partners to assist small businesses located in a presidentially declared major disaster area and authorizes SBDCs to provide assistance outside the SBDC\u2019s state, without regard to geographical proximity to the SBDC, if the small business is in a presidentially declared major disaster area. This assistance can be provided \u201cfor a period of not more than two years after the date on which the President\u201d has declared the area a major disaster.\nH.R. 207, the Developing the Next Generation of Small Businesses Act of 2016, which, as ordered to be reported by the House Committee on Small Business on March 23, 2016, includes the Small Business Development Centers Improvement Act of 2016, the Women\u2019s Business Centers Improvements Act of 2016, and the SCORE for Small Business Act of 2016. The bill would require the SBA to only use authorized entrepreneurial development programs (SCORE, WBCs, SBDCs, etc.) \u201cto deliver entrepreneurial development services, entrepreneurial education, business incubation services, growth acceleration services, support for the development and maintenance of clusters, or business training\u201d; add data collection and reporting requirements for SBDCs; authorize to be appropriated $21.75 million for WBCs for each of FY2017-FY2020 (WBCs were appropriated $17 million in FY2016); increase the WBC annual grant award from not more than $150,000 to not more than $185,000 (adjusted annually to reflect change in inflation); authorize the award of an additional $65,000 to WBCs under specified circumstances; authorize the SBA to waive, in whole or in part, the WBC nonfederal matching requirement for up to two consecutive fiscal years under specified circumstances; modify SCORE program requirements with respect to the role of participating volunteers, program plans and goals, and reporting; authorize to be appropriated $10.5 million for SCORE in each of FY2017 and FY2018; and add language concerning the provision and reporting of online counseling by SCORE.\nH.R. 2670 the Microloan Modernization Act of 2015, and its Senate companion bill (S. 1857), which would, among other provisions, require the SBA administrator to establish a rule enabling intermediaries to apply for a waiver to the requirement that no more than 25% of Microloan technical assistance grant funds may be used to provide technical assistance to prospective borrowers.\nThis report also discusses legislation introduced in the Senate concerning SBDCs (S. 999, the Small Business Development Centers Improvement Act of 2015), WBCs (S. 2126, the Women\u2019s Small Business Ownership Act of 2015), and SCORE (S. 1000, the SCORE for Small Business Act of 2015).", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": true, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/R41352", "sha1": "aefe4293b8c03b13e62f889258a62650fa81ade8", "filename": "files/20160929_R41352_aefe4293b8c03b13e62f889258a62650fa81ade8.html", "images": null }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/R41352", "sha1": "ac5bcfc3c56683782ee574d24a7081484e5c183f", "filename": "files/20160929_R41352_ac5bcfc3c56683782ee574d24a7081484e5c183f.pdf", "images": null } ], "topics": [ { "source": "IBCList", "id": 4832, "name": "Small Business" } ] }, { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 455922, "date": "2016-09-15", "retrieved": "2016-09-23T18:05:44.755734", "title": "Small Business Management and Technical Assistance Training Programs", "summary": "The Small Business Administration (SBA) has provided technical and managerial assistance to small businesses since it began operations in 1953. Initially, the SBA provided its own small business management and technical assistance training programs. Over time, the SBA has relied increasingly on third parties to provide that training. \nCongressional interest in the SBA\u2019s management and technical assistance training programs has increased in recent years, primarily because these programs are viewed as a means to assist small businesses create and retain jobs. The SBA is expected to spend about $210.1 million on these programs in FY2016. These programs fund about \u201c14,000 resource partners,\u201d including 63 lead small business development centers (SBDCs) and more than 900 SBDC local outreach locations, 111 women\u2019s business centers (WBCs), and 320 chapters of the mentoring program, SCORE. The SBA reports that more than 1 million aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners receive training from an SBA-supported resource partner each year. The SBA argues that these programs contribute \u201cto the long-term success of these businesses and their ability to grow and create jobs.\u201d\nThe Department of Commerce also provides management and technical assistance training for small businesses. For example, its Minority Business Development Agency provides training to minority business owners to assist them in obtaining contracts and financial awards.\nSome have argued that the SBA could improve program efficiency by eliminating the duplication of services or increasing cooperation and coordination both within and among SCORE, WBCs, and SBDCs. Congress has also explored ways to improve the SBA\u2019s measurement of the programs\u2019 effectiveness.\nThis report examines the historical development of federal small business management and technical assistance training programs; describes their current structures, operations, and budgets; and assesses their administration and oversight and the measures used to determine their effectiveness. It also discusses legislation considered during the 114th Congress to improve program performance and oversight, including \nP.L. 114-88, the Recovery Improvements for Small Entities After Disaster Act of 2015 (RISE After Disaster Act of 2015), which, among other things, authorizes the SBA to provide up to two years of additional funding to its resource partners to assist small businesses located in a presidentially declared major disaster area and authorizes SBDCs to provide assistance outside the SBDC\u2019s state, without regard to geographical proximity to the SBDC, if the small business is in a presidentially declared major disaster area. This assistance can be provided \u201cfor a period of not more than two years after the date on which the President\u201d has declared the area a major disaster.\nH.R. 207, the Developing the Next Generation of Small Businesses Act of 2016, which, as ordered to be reported by the House Committee on Small Business on March 23, 2016, includes the Small Business Development Centers Improvement Act of 2016, the Women\u2019s Business Centers Improvements Act of 2016, and the SCORE for Small Business Act of 2016. The bill would require the SBA to only use authorized entrepreneurial development programs (SCORE, WBCs, SBDCs, etc.) \u201cto deliver entrepreneurial development services, entrepreneurial education, business incubation services, growth acceleration services, support for the development and maintenance of clusters, or business training\u201d; add data collection and reporting requirements for SBDCs; authorize to be appropriated $21.75 million for WBCs for each of FY2017-FY2020 (WBCs were appropriated $17 million in FY2016); increase the WBC annual grant award from not more than $150,000 to not more than $185,000 (adjusted annually to reflect change in inflation); authorize the award of an additional $65,000 to WBCs under specified circumstances; authorize the SBA to waive, in whole or in part, the WBC nonfederal matching requirement for up to two consecutive fiscal years under specified circumstances; modify SCORE program requirements with respect to the role of participating volunteers, program plans and goals, and reporting; authorize to be appropriated $10.5 million for SCORE in each of FY2017 and FY2018; and add language concerning the provision and reporting of online counseling by SCORE.\nH.R. 2670 the Microloan Modernization Act of 2015, and its Senate companion bill (S. 1857), which would, among other provisions, require the SBA administrator to establish a rule enabling intermediaries to apply for a waiver to the requirement that no more than 25% of Microloan technical assistance grant funds may be used to provide technical assistance to prospective borrowers.\nThis report also discusses legislation introduced in the Senate concerning SBDCs (S. 999, the Small Business Development Centers Improvement Act of 2015), WBCs (S. 2126, the Women\u2019s Small Business Ownership Act of 2015), and SCORE (S. 1000, the SCORE for Small Business Act of 2015).", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": true, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/R41352", "sha1": "c6507735345e006c6587ed9f8ba9d06544ee0ce5", "filename": "files/20160915_R41352_c6507735345e006c6587ed9f8ba9d06544ee0ce5.html", "images": null }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/R41352", "sha1": "c03c15a045c6ff130944ebc6be28835ca09d9bc7", "filename": "files/20160915_R41352_c03c15a045c6ff130944ebc6be28835ca09d9bc7.pdf", "images": null } ], "topics": [ { "source": "IBCList", "id": 2636, "name": "Small Business Policy" } ] }, { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 451548, "date": "2016-04-08", "retrieved": "2016-04-12T15:43:11.489388", "title": "Small Business Management and Technical Assistance Training Programs", "summary": "The Small Business Administration (SBA) has provided technical and managerial assistance to small businesses since it began operations in 1953. Initially, the SBA provided its own small business management and technical assistance training programs. Over time, the SBA has relied increasingly on third parties to provide that training. \nCongressional interest in the SBA\u2019s management and technical assistance training programs has increased in recent years, primarily because these programs are viewed as a means to assist small businesses create and retain jobs. The SBA is expected to spend about $210.1 million on these programs in FY2016. These programs fund about \u201c14,000 resource partners,\u201d including 63 lead small business development centers (SBDCs) and more than 900 SBDC local outreach locations, 105 women\u2019s business centers (WBCs), and 320 chapters of the mentoring program, SCORE. The SBA reports that more than 1 million aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners receive training from an SBA-supported resource partner each year. The SBA argues that these programs contribute \u201cto the long-term success of these businesses and their ability to grow and create jobs.\u201d\nThe Department of Commerce also provides management and technical assistance training for small businesses. For example, its Minority Business Development Agency provides training to minority business owners to assist them in obtaining contracts and financial awards.\nSome have argued that the SBA could improve program efficiency by eliminating the duplication of services or increasing cooperation and coordination both within and among SCORE, WBCs, and SBDCs. Congress has also explored ways to improve the SBA\u2019s measurement of the programs\u2019 effectiveness.\nThis report examines the historical development of federal small business management and technical assistance training programs; describes their current structures, operations, and budgets; and assesses their administration and oversight and the measures used to determine their effectiveness. It also discusses legislation considered during the 114th Congress to improve program performance and oversight, including \nP.L. 114-88, the Recovery Improvements for Small Entities After Disaster Act of 2015 (RISE After Disaster Act of 2015), which, among other things, authorizes the SBA to provide up to two years of additional funding to its resource partners to assist small businesses located in a presidentially declared major disaster area and authorizes SBDCs to provide assistance outside the SBDC\u2019s state, without regard to geographical proximity to the SBDC, if the small business is in a presidentially declared major disaster area. This assistance can be provided \u201cfor a period of not more than two years after the date on which the President\u201d has declared the area a major disaster.\nH.R. 207, the Developing the Next Generation of Small Businesses Act of 2016, which, as ordered to be reported by the House Committee on Small Business on March 23, 2016, includes the Small Business Development Centers Improvement Act of 2016, the Women\u2019s Business Centers Improvements Act of 2016, and the SCORE for Small Business Act of 2016. 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Initially, the SBA provided its own small business management and technical assistance training programs. Over time, the SBA has relied increasingly on third parties to provide that training. \nCongressional interest in the SBA\u2019s management and technical assistance training programs has increased in recent years, primarily because these programs are viewed as a means to assist small businesses create and retain jobs. The SBA is expected to spend about $210.1 million on these programs in FY2016. These programs fund about \u201c14,000 resource partners,\u201d including 63 lead small business development centers (SBDCs) and more than 900 SBDC local outreach locations, 105 women\u2019s business centers (WBCs), and 320 chapters of the mentoring program, SCORE. The SBA reports that more than 1 million aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners receive training from an SBA-supported resource partner each year. The SBA argues that these programs contribute \u201cto the long-term success of these businesses and their ability to grow and create jobs.\u201d\nThe Department of Commerce also provides management and technical assistance training for small businesses. For example, its Minority Business Development Agency provides training to minority business owners to assist them in obtaining contracts and financial awards.\nSome have argued that the SBA could improve program efficiency by eliminating the duplication of services or increasing cooperation and coordination both within and among SCORE, WBCs, and SBDCs. For example, the House Committee on Small Business has argued that the SBA\u2019s various training programs should be \u201cfolded into the mission of the SBDC program or their responsibilities should be taken over by other agencies\u201d because they \u201coverlap each other and duplicate the educational services provided by other agencies.\u201d Congress has also explored ways to improve the SBA\u2019s measurement of the programs\u2019 effectiveness.\nThis report examines the historical development of federal small business management and technical assistance training programs; describes their current structures, operations, and budgets; and assesses their administration and oversight and the measures used to determine their effectiveness. It also discusses legislation considered during the 114th Congress to improve program performance and oversight, including \nP.L. 114-88, the Recovery Improvements for Small Entities After Disaster Act of 2015 (RISE After Disaster Act of 2015), which, among other things, authorizes the SBA to provide up to two years of additional financial assistance, on a competitive basis, to SBDCs, WBCs, SCORE, or any proposed consortium of such individuals or entities to assist small businesses located in a presidentially declared major disaster area and authorizes SBDCs to provide assistance to small businesses outside the SBDC\u2019s state, without regard to geographical proximity to the SBDC, if the small business is in a presidentially declared major disaster area. This assistance can be provided \u201cfor a period of not more than two years after the date on which the President\u201d has declared the area a major disaster.\nH.R. 207, the Small Business Development Centers Improvement Act of 2015, and its Senate counterpart (S. 999), which would, among other provisions, require the SBA to only use authorized entrepreneurial development programs (SCORE, WBCs, SBDCs, etc.) \u201cto deliver entrepreneurial development services, entrepreneurial education, business incubation services, growth acceleration services, support for the development and maintenance of clusters, or business training.\u201d\n\nS. 2126, the Women\u2019s Small Business Ownership Act of 2015, which would authorize to be appropriated $21.75 million for WBCs for each of FY2016-FY2020 (WBCs were appropriated $17 million in FY2016); increase the WBC annual grant award from not more than $150,000 to not more than $250,000; and authorize the SBA to waive, in whole or in part, the WBC nonfederal matching requirement for up to two consecutive fiscal years under specified circumstances.\nH.R. 4027, the Women\u2019s Small Business Ownership Act of 2015, which, among other provisions, would increase the WBC annual grant award from not more than $150,000 to not more than $250,000 and authorize the SBA to waive, in whole or in part, the WBC nonfederal matching requirement for up to two consecutive fiscal years under specified circumstances.\nH.R. 2670, the Microloan Modernization Act of 2015, and its Senate companion bill (S. 1857), which would, among other provisions, require the SBA administrator to establish a rule enabling intermediaries to apply for a waiver to the requirement that no more than 25% of Microloan technical assistance grant funds may be used to provide technical assistance to prospective borrowers. \nS. 1000, the SCORE for Small Business Act of 2015, and H.R. 4788, the SCORE for Small Business Act of 2016, which would, among other provisions, reauthorize the program and modify program requirements with respect to the role of participating volunteers, program plans and goals, and reporting.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": true, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/R41352", "sha1": "a5b69afeb059909cb9c4022f27f1bfcacdb01342", "filename": "files/20160322_R41352_a5b69afeb059909cb9c4022f27f1bfcacdb01342.html", "images": null }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/R41352", "sha1": "99e8cb4f8a1a86026e650f6e471aecf2447110d2", "filename": "files/20160322_R41352_99e8cb4f8a1a86026e650f6e471aecf2447110d2.pdf", "images": null } ], "topics": [ { "source": "IBCList", "id": 2636, "name": "Small Business Policy" } ] }, { "source": "University of North Texas Libraries Government Documents Department", "sourceLink": "https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc820321/", "id": "R41352_2015Oct13", "date": "2015-10-13", "retrieved": "2016-03-19T13:57:26", "title": "Small Business Management and Technical Assistance Training Programs", "summary": null, "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORT", "active": false, "formats": [ { "format": "PDF", "filename": "files/20151013_R41352_300642b784d0a6a3d7abe6f49d0f0ccd20aeada2.pdf" }, { "format": "HTML", "filename": "files/20151013_R41352_300642b784d0a6a3d7abe6f49d0f0ccd20aeada2.html" } ], "topics": [] }, { "source": "University of North Texas Libraries Government Documents Department", "sourceLink": "https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc821952/", "id": "R41352_2015Feb24", "date": "2015-02-24", "retrieved": "2016-03-19T13:57:26", "title": "Small Business Management and Technical Assistance Training Programs", "summary": null, "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORT", "active": false, "formats": [ { "format": "PDF", "filename": "files/20150224_R41352_4feaa90e46cb040fb7bfaaf6608ab4b566528544.pdf" }, { "format": "HTML", "filename": "files/20150224_R41352_4feaa90e46cb040fb7bfaaf6608ab4b566528544.html" } ], "topics": [] }, { "source": "University of North Texas Libraries Government Documents Department", "sourceLink": "https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc306530/", "id": "R41352_2014Mar24", "date": "2014-03-24", "retrieved": "2014-07-08T21:53:44", "title": "Small Business Management and Technical Assistance Training Programs", "summary": "This report examines small business startups' experiences with the Small Business Administration's (SBA's) management and technical assistance training programs -- focusing on Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs), Women Business Centers (WBCs), and SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives) -- the 7(a), 504/CDC, and Microloan lending programs; 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