WASHINGTON - SBA Administrator Isabel Casillas Guzman, the voice in President Biden’s Cabinet for America’s more than 33 million small businesses, announced the National Small Business Week 2024 Award Winners including Kansas’ Small Business Person of the Year and other business owners, leading partners, and advocates who embody the grit and determination that power our nation’s economy and ensure disaster-impacted communities can recover.
This year’s NSBW will take place April 28-May 4, 2024.
“Our 2024 National Small Business Week award winners exemplify excellence, innovation, and commitment, and the SBA is proud to showcase their incredible achievements and impact on their communities and our economy,” said Administrator Guzman.
“Under the Biden-Harris Administration, more Americans than ever before are pursuing the American dream of business ownership and able to access more opportunities, with historic investments in communities across America in local infrastructure, broadband, manufacturing, innovation and clean energy.
"National Small Business Week is the nation’s opportunity to lift up the amazing entrepreneurs, small business advocates, local partners, advisors, lenders, and investors who support America’s entrepreneurial spirt and the historic Biden-Harris Small Business Boom.”
SBA’s 2024 Kansas Small Business Person of the Year is Dallas Haselhorst, the owner of Treetop Security, LLC a cybersecurity firm based in Hays, Kansas, that specializes in securing and protecting customer data.
“Treetop Security has not only been a successful client of SBA’s resource partner, the Kansas SBDC, but they were instrumental in the planning and delivery of the SBDC’s ‘Cybersecurity 101 For Any Business Conference’ in October 2023,” said Michael Aumack of the SBA Wichita District Office. “Thanks to the financial support provided by the SBA’s Paycheck Protection Program, Treetop Security was able to retain its staff during the pandemic and quickly recover when the economy opened back up.”
Haselhorst also owns STEM Harvest in Hays and Cold Stone.
The NSBW Award Ceremonies will take place April 28 - 29 at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Washington, D.C., where Administrator Guzman will recognize the national award winners and individual state winners, and also announce the top honor of National Small Business Person of the Year from among the individual state winners.
Administrator Guzman will then launch a roadshow tour from April 30 to May 3, which will bring her to Manchester, N.H., Milwaukee, Wis., Denver, and Billings, Mont., where will be joined by local leaders to honor award-winning small businesses and discuss SBA initiatives and opportunities for the small business community.
The week-long National Small Business Week celebration will also feature a virtual summit co-hosted by SCORE, mentors to America’s small businesses.