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Special announcement

Senate Democrats voted to block a clean federal funding bill (H.R. 5371), leading to a government shutdown that is preventing the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) from serving America’s 36 million small businesses.

Every day that Senate Democrats continue to oppose a clean funding bill, they are stopping an estimated 320 small businesses from accessing $170 million in SBA-guaranteed funding.

As a result of the shutdown, we wanted to notify you that many of our services supporting small businesses are currently unavailable. The agency is executing its Lapse Plan and as soon as the shutdown is over, we are prepared to immediately return to the record-breaking services we were providing under the leadership of the Trump Administration.

If you need disaster assistance, please visit sba.gov/disaster.

Community Builders Network

Organizations in SBA's Community Builders Network help SBA to address small business needs.

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Background

Community Builders are trained on SBA’s foundational programs and serve as a referral network to SBA and our Resource Partners. You can find the official list of SBA Community Builders below.

Organizations

State/Territory	City	Organization
California	Los Angeles	Los Angeles (LA) Business Council
California	Mountain View	Silicon Valley Chamber Coalition
Louisiana	St. Gabriel	The Middleburg Institute
Maryland	Baltimore	Greater Baltimore Urban League - Raymond Haysbert Center for Entrepreneurship
Mississippi	Lexington	Community Students Learning Center
New York	New York City	Greater New York Chamber of Commerce
Oregon	Portland	Black American Chamber of Commerce
Puerto Rico	San Juan	Echar Pa' Lante
South Carolina	Barnwell	Southern Palmetto Regional Chamber of Commerce
South Dakota	Sioux Falls	Startup Sioux Falls