Nonprofit Biz Center Serves Military Vet Entrepreneurs
New Mexico Business Weekly:
A new business resource center aims to help military veterans succeed as entrepreneurs.
The nonprofit Veterans Procurement Assistance Center, which opened in mid-September, is unique in more ways than one. It is one of the only privately funded veteran’s business centers in the country.
Executive Director Archie Garcia, principal founder of the center, said the organization is better able to be an independent advocate for veterans. Most veteran’s business centers are funded either by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs or by the federal government.
“We don’t want to bite the hand that feeds us,” Garcia said, explaining that to be a true advocate, the center had to be free of federal ties.
In addition to volunteering his time and resources to the assistance center, Garcia runs his own e-commerce software company, diversityvendors.com, out of his home. As a veteran of the U.S. Navy with 25 years experience in business, Garcia knows first-hand about the difficulties of navigating the system, and many veterans are saying the assistance center is a much needed entity. Read more.
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