Program Inventory

The Small Business Administration (SBA) was selected along with other trade, export and competitiveness agencies to pilot the Federal Program Inventory. During the pilot phase, SBA developed its approach by defining programs that contribute to the Agency’s mission and support its strategic goals and objectives.

This report contains a full inventory of the SBA’s 32 inventoried programs. To identify programs that were listed in the Table of Contents, SBA used GAO’s program definition of “an organized set of activities directed toward a common purpose or goal that an agency undertakes or proposes to carry out its responsibilities” as a starting point. We then identified SBA’s organized sets of activities that impact our intended recipients (i.e., disaster and small business loans), activities that impact public outcomes (the creation of jobs) and activities that have an impact on the budget. However, we only included programs that are permanent in nature so we did not include pilot programs in this inventory. This program inventory has also been cross-referenced against the CFDA Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance programs.

Please refer to www.Performance.gov for program contributions to our Agency Priority Goals and Cross-Agency Priority (CAP) Goals.