Business View Magazine | November 2020

41 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2020 agency, or corporate America, that is going to purchase anything from any group for any reason, veterans have earned the right to be equally included for their service. And it’s an argument that’s been very well-received. Our nation is grateful for the service of women and men who volunteer to serve and that has translated to other organizations to make sure that they become successful as entrepreneurs, as well. “Right now, there are about 95 Fortune 500 corporations that pay an annual fee to belong to NaVOBA. The primary thing they do is help us with the operations to make sure that we can provide, not only the certification services, but development services and other types of advocacy and educational programs. For instance, every other Monday, we have a program we call ‘Marching Forward Mondays.’ Five of our certified veteran business enterprises each get to give a ten-minute pitch to our corporations and there’s never any fewer than three dozen corporations NAT IONAL VETERAN OWNED BUS INESS ASSOC I AT ION NAVOBA held it’s annual awards gala during the BBTBC 2019 event. NaVOBA President & CEO, Matthew Pavelek NaVOBA team members at the 2017 HeroZona event.