Our first opportunity to sit down with SBA members at a SBA sponsored training session will take place in Phoenix on May 7.  Our topic will be one of several agenda items.  Please check with the Phoenix office for agenda times- we expect to start our session about 3:00 PM.

It will be at the Arizona District Office: 2828 North Central Ave, Suite 800, Phoenix, Arizona.

We welcome the opportunity to meet with you at this event and others in the future.  nGAP will be meeting with SBA Directors throughout this month to set up meetings at district locations across the Southwest region.  We will have more information on these meetings shortly.

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." This familiar quote has been attributed to both former British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli and Mark Twain, American author and humorist.  If you read the differing opinions on how well the Federal Government is meeting its goals for small business (statistics), you get the feeling this quote is receiveing new life.

If you review one of the eyetests the government calls the Small Business Goaling Report you will find the truth, or not, depending on your motivations. 

Many of the numbers appear to closely parallel their goals, in total.  But if you look at the achievement by department, of which there are about 90, you will see that there is great disparity by department and by the separate goals for each type of set aside.