{"id":375778,"date":"2022-09-13T06:06:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T20:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=375778"},"modified":"2022-09-13T06:06:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T20:06:02","slug":"kilili-nmc-awarded-952394-grant-for-its-sbdc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/kilili-nmc-awarded-952394-grant-for-its-sbdc\/","title":{"rendered":"Kilili: NMC awarded $952,394 grant for its SBDC"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_371262\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-371262\" style=\"width: 1779px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Gregorio-Kilili-Sablan-PW-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-371262\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Gregorio-Kilili-Sablan-PW-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1779\" height=\"922\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-371262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Delegate Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan (D-MP) disclosed Saturday that the U.S. Small Business Administration confirmed with his office that it awarded a $952,394 grant to the Northern Marianas College\u2019s Small Business Development Center to support its small business incubator program.<\/p>\n<p>Sablan in his e-kilili newsletter said the funding is an earmark that he secured in the Consolidated Appropriations Act (Public Law 117-103).<\/p>\n<p>He said the funds are intended to provide existing and aspiring business owners rental space and other resources they need to start new ventures and create jobs\u00a0 in the Marianas.<\/p>\n<p>Sablan had nine of his requests for community projects for the Marianas\u2014worth $4.52 million\u2014included in the federal spending bill for fiscal year 2022. The $952,393 grant for the innovation incubator at NMC is included in that nine requests.<\/p>\n<p>This week\u2019s grant award, the delegate said, comes in addition to the $659,990 renewable grant the SBDC received from the SBA in March following the enactment of his Small Business Development Act last year.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the development center at NMC was not eligible for Lead Center funding, as it was just a sub-office of Guam.<\/p>\n<p>Sablan\u2019s legislation gave the Marianas its own Lead Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delegate Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan (D-MP) disclosed Saturday that the U.S. Small Business Administration confirmed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":371262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10167],"class_list":["post-375778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-sbdc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}