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RCED-95-127R 1 (1995-03-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacktv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: N ) United States GAO General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division B-260661 March 10, 1995 The Honorable Larry Pressler Chairman, Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation United States Senate Dear Mr. Chairman: The Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) program, sponsored by the Small Business Administration (SBA), provides opportunities for persons interested in starting or expanding small businesses to obtain the advice of experienced business executives. This letter responds to your request that we provide information on how (1) SCORE determines budget allocations for regional locations, (2) SCORE officials view the fairness of the allocations, and (3) SCORE meets the needs of rural communities. In summary, we found that SCORE's regional budget allocations are based primarily on historical trends in actual expenditures, with adjustments for special initiatives and other factors. SCORE field officials we spoke to stated that their areas received a fair share of SCORE's funds, given the small size of the total budget. To help meet the needs of rural areas--generally more difficult to service because of large geographic areas and lower populations--SCORE uses approaches such as waiving the guidelines for the number of volunteers or workshops needed to start a chapter in a rural area and using persons or donated funds from larger chapters to subsidize smaller rural chapters. BACKGROUND SCORE is a nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of the District of Columbia; it receives an annual appropriation from the Congress ($3.25 million in fiscal year 1995). SCORE consists of a headquarters office in Washington, D.C.; 10 regions, each of which includes a number of districts; and one or more chapters within each district. SCORE is overseen by a Board of Directors, made up of the 10 regional directors and other officials (enclosure I contains the SCORE organization chart). The GAOIRCED-95-127R Service Corps of Retired Executives

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