NYS SBDC Services & Specialty Programs: Veterans Business Services

Veterans Business Programs
Serving the Veterans of New York State

Veterans Business Outreach Program
John Narciso, Regional Coordinator
Toll-free at 1-800-732-SBDC
Long Island: (631) 370-8891
In Albany: (518) 485-7647
In Buffalo: (716) 878-4030
e-mail

Veterans Services & Assistance Program
Alzie Glickstein, Regional Coordinator
New York City
(718) 797-0187
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NYS SBDC Veterans Impact:
1999-2008
Veterans Counseled: 10,855
Total Counseling Hours: 83,637
Vet Training Events: 130
Vet Training Attendees: 9,185
Augustine Xavier
2009 Success Story Augustine Xavier of Legend Limousines, Inc., worked with Farmingdale SBDC Veterans Business Advisor John Narciso.
EntreSkills for Veterans is now available

The NYS SBDC Veterans’ Business Outreach Program and the Veterans Services and Assistance Program work in coordination to provide targeted training, counseling, and mentoring to help veterans start and grow a small business. SBDC Business Advisors help veteran small business owners improve profitability, expand market share, explore export opportunities, and provide valuable assistance in terms of establishing businesses on stronger organizational and financial footing.

The Veterans Business Advisors provide:

  • One-to-one advisement sessions
  • Pre-business plan workshops/training
  • Business concept assessment
  • Business plan development assistance
  • Comprehensive feasibility analyses
  • Business-to-business commerce
  • Assistance with funding sources

The NYS program has Veterans’ Business Outreach Centers in Buffalo, Albany, and Farmingdale (Long Island) staffed by Business Advisors who are veterans dedicated to helping fellow veterans. In nine years, the award-winning program has provided advisement to more than 10,000 veterans and located more than $160 million in investment funding for veterans. The U.S. Small Business Administration has called the New York SBDC program a national model for providing business assistance and targeted outreach to veterans.

The Veterans Services and Assistance Program is staffed by a dedicated business advisor who is responsible for providing veterans business services within the five boroughs of New York City.

Veterans Behind Bars

Veterans Behind Bars is an innovative part of VBOP that was developed to assist incarcerated veterans within three to four years of release to develop business concepts and plans that can be turned into successful businesses upon these soldiers’ return to society. Participants must be honorably discharged veterans eligible for the Veteran’s Residential Program and within four years of release. Arthur Kill Correctional Facility in Staten Island and Groveland Correctional Facility in Rochester are the participating sites. NYS SBDC business advisors go behind bars a few times a month to provide free business planning seminars and workshops to veterans who sign up for the voluntary program. Advisors provide guidance on business plan development and topics necessary for successful small business operation. The training program covers all aspects
of starting/operating a business, including financial planning, accounting, marketing, production, hiring and more. Participants are encouraged to continue accessing SBDC services following release. The goal is to equip veterans with the tools they’ll need to start their own business once they have left the facility.

EntreSkills for Veterans

Another innovative development within VBOP is the creation of a web-based/CD-ROM-based interactive educational program that teaches veterans to be successful entrepreneurs. EntreSkills for Veterans™ is based on the successful EntreSkills™ program developed by the SBDC Office of Entrepreneurial Education (OE2). VBOP Business Advisors assisted in an upgraded and targeted version of these materials based on a simple premise: military training and experience can be an excellent preparation for starting your own business. The self-paced program helps veterans refine and develop a concept, address legal and marketing issues, prepare financial statements, and ultimately, manage and run a business. Each section includes self-correcting quizzes, an abundance of links to useful business-related websites, and entrepreneur case studies. The sections build cumulatively toward the preparation of a finished business plan. EntreSkills for Veterans™ operates in tandem with one-on-one business counseling by VBOP Business Advisors. The SBDC is working with the New York State Office of Veterans Affairs to qualify EntreSkills for Veterans™ for veterans’ educational credit.

If you and/or your business is outside New York, look to these other Veterans Business Outreach Centers:

Center Locations and Areas of Coverage

Region I

Northeast Veterans Business Resource Center


Address

States Covered

District Office

360 Merrimack St.
Building 9, Suite 209
Lawrence, MA 01843

Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut

Massachusetts District Office

 


Point of Contact
Louis Celli, Jr.
Phone:617-938-3933
Fax:617-507-7799
Email: lcelli@nevbrc.org
Webpage: http://www.nevbrc.org

Region II

The Research Foundation of the State University of New York SUNY
@ Farmingdale SBDC


Address

States Covered

District Office

Campus Commons 2350 Broadhollow Road
Farmingdale, NY 11735 -1006

New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands

Syracuse District Office


Point of Contact
John Narciso
Phone: 631-370-8891 or Toll-free at 1-800-732-7232
Fax: 631-370-8895
Email:  narcisja@farmingdale.edu
Webpage:  http://www.nyssbdc.org/services/veterans/veterans.html

Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey


Address

States Covered

District Office

249 University Ave Suite 206
Newark, NJ  07102

New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands

Newark District Office


Point of Contact
Brenda Hopper
Phone: 973-353-1927
Fax: 973-353-1110
Email:  bhopper@njsbdc.com
Webpage: www.njsbdc.com 


Region III

Hampton Roads Veterans Business Outreach Center

Old Dominion University


Address

States Covered

District Office

4111 Monarch Way, Suite 106
Norkfolk, Virginia  23508

Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware, District of Columbia

Richmond District Office


Point of Contact
Cindy Walters
Phone: 757-683-5542
Fax: 757-683-5509
Email:  cmwalter@odu.edu
Webpage:  http://www.hrvboc.com

University of Pennsylvania


Address

States Covered

District Office

3451 Walnut Street Franklin Bldg, Suite P221      
Philadelphia, PA  19104                      

Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware, District of Columbia

Philadelphia District Office


Point of Contact
Heather Lewis
Phone: 215-573-4507
Fax: 215-898-9708
Email:  heatherl@upenn.edu
Webpage:  http://www.upenn.edu/resarchservices

Region IV

The University of West Florida in Pensacola


Address

States Covered

District Office

2500 Minnesota Avenue
Lynn Haven, FL 32444

Florida, Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Mississippi, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina

Jacksonville Florida District Office


Point of Contact
Brenton Peacock
Phone: 1-800-542-7232 or 850-271-1108 ext 19
Fax: 850-271-1109
Email:  vboc@knology.net
Webpage:  http://vboc.org

The Veterans Business Outreach Center @Fayetteville State University


Address

States Covered

District Office

1200 Murchison Road
Fayetteville, NC  28301

Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana

Michigan  District Office


Point of Contact
Greg Taylor
Phone: 910-672-1593
Fax: 910-672-2122
Email:  vboc@uncfsu.edu
Webpage:  http://www.uncfsu.edu/sbe/vboc.htm


Region V

VetBiz Central, Inc


Address

States Covered

District Office

711 N. Saginaw St.
Suite 206
Flint, MI 48503

Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana

Michigan District Office


Point of Contact
Edward Ronders/Matt Sherwood
Phone: 810-767-8387
Fax: 810-767-8662
Email:  ed@vetbizcentral.com or matt@vetbizcentral.com
Webpage:  http://www.vetbizcentral.com
 

Region VI

The University of Texas - Pan American


Address

States Covered

District Office

1201 West University Drive
Edinburg, TX 78539-2999

Texas, New Mexico, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma

Lower Rio Grande Valley District Office

Point of Contact
Alonzo Gracia
Phone: 956-292-7547
Fax: 956-316-2612

Email:  vboc@panam.edu
Webpage:  http://www.utpa.edu/vboc

Veterans Enterprise Training Program


Address

States Covered

District Office

300 San Mateo NE # 106
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87108

Texas, New Mexico, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma

New Mexico District Office

Point of Contact
Lloyd Calderon
Phone: 505-841-2956 or 1-877-708-0002
Fax: 505-841-5560
Email:  Lloyd.calderon@state.nm.us
Webpage:  http://www.dvs.state.nm.us/vetpro.html

Louisiana Veterans Business Outreach Center


Address

States Covered

District Office

107 South Lake Arthur Avenue, Suite #7
Jennings, Louisiana  70546

Texas, New Mexico, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma

New Orleans District Office

Point of Contact
Charles Achane
Phone: 337-296-8580
Fax: 337-246-3334
Email:  lvboc@charter.net    
Webpage: www.lvboc.org

Region VII

Veterans Advocacy Foundation, Inc. 


Address

States Covered

District Office

4236 Lindell Blvd
Suite 102
Saint Louis, MO 63108

Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska

Saint Louis District Office

Point of Contact
Darcella Craven
Phone: 314-531-8387
Fax: 877-825-4190
Email:  info@vetbiz.com
Webpage:  http://www.vetbiz.com

Region VIII

Rocky Boys Veteran’s Association 


Address

States Covered

District Office

96 Clinic Road
Box Elder, MT 59521

Montana, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, North Dakota, South Dakota

Montana District Office

Point of Contact
Judi Houle
Phone: 406-395-4728
Fax: 406-395-4503
Email:  houle_judi@yahoo.com
Webpage:  http://www.rockyboy.com
 

Region IX

Vietnam Veterans of California - VBOC


Address

States Covered

District Office

7270 E. Southgate Drive, Suite 1
Sacramento, Ca 95823

California, Arizona, Guam, Hawaii, Nevada

Sacramento District Office

Point of Contact
Coreena Conoley
Phone: 916-393-1690
Fax: 916-393-1693
Email:  cconley@vboc-ca.org
Webpage:  http://www.vboc-ca.org

Guam Veterans Business Outreach Center


Address

States Covered

District Office

172 South Marine Dr. Asan, Guam 96923

California, Arizona, Guam, Hawaii, Nevada

Guam District Office

Point of Contact
Anita Borja-Enriquez
Phone: 671-735-2520
Fax: 671-7345362
Email:  abe@uguam.uog.edu
Webpage:  www.uog.edu/sbpa

 

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