Nominations are now open for next spring’s National Small Business Week Awards, presented every year by the U.S. Small Business Administration.
The public can nominate their favorite entrepreneurs for Small Business Person of the Year and Small Business Exporter of the Year. Several other honors will be presented during the 2018 celebration, which will run April 29 to May 5.
You can get nomination forms at www.sba.gov/nsbw/awards. The deadline is 3 p.m. Jan. 9, 2018. Applications must be hand-delivered or mailed to the SBA’s Kansas City district office. Because the completed forms include personal information, email isn’t allowed. (Contact information for the Kansas City SBA office can be found here.)
The full list of National Small Business Week Awards includes:
Small Business Person of the Year
- One from each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Guam.
Small Business Exporter of the Year
Phoenix Awards for Disaster Recovery
- Phoenix Award for Small Business Disaster Recovery
- Phoenix Award for Outstanding Contributions to Disaster Recovery, Public Official
- Phoenix Award for Outstanding Contributions to Disaster Recovery, Volunteer
Federal Procurement Awards
- Small Business Prime Contractor of the Year
- Small Business Subcontractor of the Year
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Awards for Excellence (for large prime contractors who use small businesses as suppliers and contractors)
- 8(a) Graduate of the Year
Jody C. Raskind Lender of the Year
Small Business Investment Company of the Year
Awards to SBA Resource Partners
- Veterans Business Outreach Center Excellence in Service Award
- Women’s Business Center of Excellence and Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Excellence and Innovation Center Award
