The Northeast Veterans Business Resource Center, physically located in Boston, Massachusetts, with virtual and physical classes across New England and New York State offers free instruction to eligible veterans who have the desire and initiative to start or rehabilitate their own businesses. Classes, workshops and seminars are free to eligible veterans. The Center also offers memberships to take full advantage of the Center's resources including a wide range of business machines, computers, software, specialized mentoring and counseling sessions, networking events, guest speakers, equipment rental, access to Center partners and their resources, and much more.

Our Mission

To provide free entrepreneurial training and resources to all members of this nation's armed forces who served honorably past and present so that they may acquire the skills, capital, and knowledge necessary to start or rehabilitate a business. To establish a Center with the equipment and assets necessary to assist members with state-of-the-art tools toward the development of the constructs, infrastructure, marketing, research, entry strategies, models, accounting, budgeting, concept development, and other key components new successful businesses have at their foundation. To provide mentorship from business professionals at the pinnacle of their vocation, offering veteran-to-veteran company counseling/mentoring when possible.

The Veterans Entrepreneurial Community Outreach Program

The Center is developing a Veterans Outreach Program designed to have Veterans within their community mentor and sponsor community Entrepreneurs (both Veteran and Non-Veteran).

The Northeast Veterans Business and Resource Center has begun offering outreach assistance as a way of supporting our community, and building community bonds to small businesses owners.

The Veterans Entrepreneurial Community Outreach Program is designed to foster entrepreneurial partnership between Veterans, Veteran-owned business and Non-Veterans within the community.  This Vet-sponsored outreach program is the first of its kind to use Veterans as a support mechanism for our communities.  Veterans who have become established within their community are mentors and counselors allowing them to once again use and teach the leadership skills that our country has invested in them.

Sponsored and developed by the Veterans Corporation, this landmark program brings together, for the first time, Veterans and Non-Veterans in a cohesive effort to combine skills, talents and resources in a way never before explored.

As the Veterans Entrepreneurial Training and Resource Program gains exposure, more and more Non-Veterans are asking how they can get involved and participate in our program. The NEVBRC program is growing and gained recognition within the Massachusetts State Department of Employment and Training and the communities where the Center now has annexes operating.  Veteran and Center clients can sponsor a community Non-Veteran at the Center. The Veteran must co-enroll in any program the Non-Vet participates in and the Vet Client will be responsible for all program costs and fees.

As our program receives more exposure Non-Veteran entrepreneurs become recruiters for our program. Our program now benefits the entire entrepreneurial community without incurring costs.

Veterans are further identified as mentors similar to the Big Brother Big Sister program

• Veterans now become more appealing to a wider variety of community based programs and services that heretofore may have overlooked the veteran as a resource.
• Veterans now become more competitive for a wider variety of grants and funding sources.
• Veteran entrepreneurs may be more motivated to join the program if they knowing that they are helping another trying to start a business.

The mentor’s affiliation and the entrepreneur have the potential to grow exponentially through this exposure.

Eligible Veterans- The Northeast Veterans Business Resource Center uses the same definition as the Veterans Corporation and the United States Department of Labor for "Veterans". The National Veterans Business Development Corporation defines a Veteran as any former member of the armed forces of the United States who was discharged or released from duty under any conditions other than dishonorable, as well as active and former members of the Reserve and National Guard, and active duty military members preparing to transition to civilian life.