ACE is a nonprofit lender that makes loans to small businesses in Georgia. Each loan comes with free coaching from a business advisor. Its Women's Business Center gives coaching and training in English and Spanish.
S. Small Business Administration is a federal agency that helps small business owners and people hurt by declared disasters. It offers low-interest disaster loans, backs loans made by lenders, and has programs for veteran business owners. It also points owners to free business counseling.
The Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce is a business group in Atlanta that works to help Hispanic businesses and professionals across Georgia. It offers networking, workshops, leadership training, a veterans group, and volunteer matching. Its site says it is open to all.
VETLANTA is a free, volunteer-led veteran networking club in Atlanta, started in 2014. It holds a free summit four times a year, where veterans, military families, employers, schools, and nonprofits meet. Volunteer committees on education, jobs, housing, business, and health care can connect you to a person who can help.
The Georgia VECTR Center in Warner Robins helps veterans, service members, and their families with school, jobs, benefits, and starting a business. Coaches help you pick a career, enroll in Georgia public colleges, and find work. Short job-training courses are taught on site with Central Georgia Technical College.
The D'Aniello Institute for Veterans and Military Families is part of Syracuse University. It offers career training and business programs for veterans, service members and military spouses. Many programs are online, and it lists two local Ambassadors in Atlanta.