The University of Connecticut and six other U.S. business schools will share in a $1 million Wal-Mart Foundation grant for programs to give another 300 disabled veterans a shot at entrepreneurship.
The foundation announced its two-year grant at the White House on Tuesday.
The money will fund expansion of the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) program at UConn, Syracuse, UCLA, Purdue, Florida State, Louisiana State University and Texas A&M University.
The EBV program was founded in 2007 to offer free training in entrepreneurship and small business management to post-9/11 veterans with disabilities resulting from their military service.
More than 300 service-disabled veterans have graduated from the EBV program since its start and created more than 150 new businesses.
