The U.S. Small Business Administration is now accepting nominations for its 2011 National Small Business Week Awards.
Each year, since 1963, SBA’s Small Business Week Awards have recognized outstanding individuals from America’s small business community for their achievements and contributions to our nation’s economy. In 2010, this celebration will honor the estimated 27 million small businesses in America, and is an opportunity to showcase and recognize some of the best and brightest of these with the SBA’s annual Small Business Week Awards.
Small Business Week 2010 Award Categories include:
- Small Business Person of the Year
- Small Business Exporter of the Year
- SBA Young Entrepreneur of the Year
- Jeffrey Butland Family-Owned Business of the Year
- Financial Services Champion of the Year
- Home-Based Business Champion of the Year
- Minority Small Business Champion of the Year
- Veteran Small Business Champion of the Year
- Women in Business Champion of the Year
- Entrepreneurial Success Award
- Phoenix Awards (for disaster recovery)
State winners of the Small Business Person of the Year awards attend the national Small Business Week celebration in Washington, D.C., in May to compete for the title of National Small Business Person of the Year. Award winners in other categories go on to compete at the regional and national level, with national Champions, who are small business advocates, invited to attend the national event.
For nomination guidelines and a list of all awards, go to:
http://www.sba.gov/idc/groups/public/documents/ia_des_moines/sbwnominationguidelines2011.pdf or go to the “2011 SBW Nomination Guidelines PDF” link under “Spotlight” at: http://www.sba.gov/localresources/
More information about these and other SBA programs is available on the SBA Web site at www.sba.gov. Contact information for your local SBA field office can be found at http://www.sba.gov/localresources/index.html.
2009 Winner Waymon Armstrong pictured below:
