{"id":64564,"date":"2015-11-12T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T14:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=64564"},"modified":"2015-11-19T16:53:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T21:53:57","slug":"sba-seeks-nominations-for-veteran-owned-business-achievement-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=64564","title":{"rendered":"SBA Seeks Nominations for Veteran-Owned Business Achievement Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/business.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-61725\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/business.jpg\" alt=\"business\" width=\"400\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/business.jpg 400w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/business-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/business-150x75.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>(Syracuse, NY \u2013 Nov. 2015)\u00a0Do you know of an exemplary veteran entrepreneur? The Syracuse district office of the U.S. Small Business Administration requests nominations for the Veteran-Owned Achievement (VOBA) Award to recognize the entrepreneurial success of a local business owner who has served our country.<\/p>\n<p>The nominee must be a 51 percent small business owner with military service, in business for at least two years, a resident of the United States, and meet one or more of the following criteria: staying power; growth in employees or sales; current and past financial performance; innovativeness of service or product; response to adversity; and contributions to community-oriented projects.<\/p>\n<p>The winner will be presented with the award at the\u00a02016 Operation: Start Up &amp; Grow\u00a0veterans\u2019 business conference at Onondaga Community College in Syracuse on\u00a0Wednesday, March 16, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Nomination packages must be postmarked by\u00a0January 31, 2016\u00a0and sent to: Erica Choi, U.S. Small Business Administration, 1 Computer Drive S., Albany, NY, 12205.<\/p>\n<p>Please contact Erica Choi for nomination forms at 518-446-1118\u00a0ext. 231\u00a0or\u00a0erica.choi@sba.gov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Syracuse, NY \u2013 Nov. 2015)\u00a0Do you know of an exemplary veteran entrepreneur? The Syracuse district office of the U.S. Small Business Administration requests nominations for the Veteran-Owned Achievement (VOBA) Award to recognize the entrepreneurial success of a local business owner who has served our country. The nominee must be a 51 percent small business owner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21571],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}