June 1, 2007 marked the official start of the 2007 hurricane season and SBA has dramatically reformed its Disaster Assistance program to ensure that we are well-prepared to handle a catastrophic disaster.

ATLANTA - May 07, 2007 - The Make Mine a Million $ Business  program returns to Atlanta on June 1st and 2nd when women business owners will compete for a package designed to propel them past $1 million in annual revenues. Atlanta played host to the program in its pilot year, 2005. The program quickly evolved into a nationwide movement - recently pledging to inspire one million women to declare their intent to build $1 million businesses by 2010 - and is now returning to one of the enterprising cities that helped get it off the ground. 

Advocacy seeks small business researchers, or researchers who want to become small businesses, to perform economic research via a request for quotations (RFQ). The topics are chosen because they are researchable, show the status or role of small businesses, can be a springboard for further research, and can affect public policy. These RFQs are for competitive contracts and are not research grants. 

Washington, DC – Atlanta has been selected as one of the five cities that are sites for a national research study to identify obstacles to business growth faced by women business owners of color.  The day-long research forum, held May 30th, will be conducted by the Center for Women's Business Research and Babson College. The objective is to identify the barriers and challenges that women of color face in the pursuit of business growth and to create individual, community, and ultimately, national action plans to overcome those barriers. The research will culminate in a 2008 national conference where public- and private-sector policy recommendations generated by the research will be announced.

Lydia C. Jones, Director of the Kennesaw State University Small Business Development Center (KSU SBDC), was named Business Consultant of 2006 at the May 1-3, 2007, Georgia Small Business Development Center Network meeting at UGA in Athens, GA.