On Veterans Day 2010, the Walmart Foundation announced a five-year, $10 million commitment to support military and veteran employment and entrepreneurial opportunities. Part of that commitment included a generous donation by the Walmart Foundation in support of the Veteran Fast Launch initiative.
The program will help accelerate veterans’ ability to start a business and succeed as small business owners. This year, SCORE will provide mentoring and training services to over 16,000 veterans and active duty military members, yielding an estimated 3,000 business start-ups. Training and mentoring will also be available to the families of veterans and active duty military members.
Our technology and business partners believe in helping our nation’s veterans and their family members start and grow businesses. Our partners have generously agreed to provide free-use and free-trial services of their products. Our Veteran Fast Launch website will offer valuable tools, services and resources to help veterans, active duty military members, and their family members start their businesses, and in time, increase sales, customers, and profits.
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As part of the new initiative, SCORE plans to partner with other nonprofit and government agencies to ensure that these tools and services are a known resource for our nation’s veterans, active duty military members, and their family members. These partners are critical in helping to build awareness of the program and offering these services to their constituents.
We are pleased to announce that our inaugural educational partner for this new initiative are the Veterans' Business Outreach Center (VBOC). Through their support, all 16 VBOC’s will offer these programs and services to the 45,000 veterans they service annually.
If you’re interested in joining us as an educational partner, please contact us at: welcome@vetsfastlaunch.org