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Agency Budget Summary
U. S. Small Business Administration
I. Resource Summary
II. Methodology
- All resources are 100 percent drug related.
III. Program Summary
- The mission of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is to provide financial, technical and management assistance to help Americans start, run, and grow their businesses, and help businesses and homeowners recover from natural disasters.
- Organizationally, SBA's Office of Advocacy works with the small business community to provide information on policy issues and advocate programs and policies that will help small businesses. SBA's Offices of Entrepreneurial Development and Capital Access work through a variety of business resource partners, such as the network of small business development centers and 8,000 lenders, to create opportunities for small business success, to include helping small firms overcome impediments to their success.
- In FY 1999 Omnibus Appropriations Legislation, under Subtitle B -- Drug-Free Workplace Act, $4.0 million was appropriated for SBA in support of the Drug-Free Workplace Demonstration Grant Program. The purposes of this Act are fourfold: (1) to educate smallbusiness concerns about the advantages of a drug-free workplace; (2) provide grants and technical assistance in addition to financial incentives to enable small business concerns to create a drug-free workplace; (3) assist working parents in keeping their children drug-free; and (4) encourage small business employees and employers alike to participate in drug-free workplace programs.
IV. Budget Summary
1999 Program
- SBA is allocating $3.5 million for demonstration programs to achieve the four purposes of the Act and $0.5 million for evaluation of the programs throughout the 18 month period of program performance.
2000 Request
- No funding is requested for this program in FY 2000.
V. Program Accomplishments
- Through its field network of offices and resource partners, SBA distributes drug abuse prevention materials developed by the Departments of Labor and Health and Human Services to the small business community.
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