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Business Enterprise Program Needs to Modify Enterprises and Improve Vendor Training, Support, and Monitoring

Report 06-73, December 2006

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The Business Enterprise Program faces several challenges that have limited its ability to provide viable business opportunities for the blind. While many of the program's business enterprises provide relatively high incomes for clients, others consistently provide low incomes and many clients leave the program within a few years. To address these concerns, the program should close or modify business enterprises that cannot provide sufficient income levels, explore new business models, and improve its training, support, and monitoring of program vendors.

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Copies of this report in print or alternate accessible format may be obtained by email OPPAGA@oppaga.fl.gov, telephone (850) 488-0021, or mail 111 W. Madison St., Room 312 Tallahassee, FL 32399-1475.
Copies of this report in print or alternate accessible format may be obtained by email OPPAGA@oppaga.fl.gov, telephone (850) 488-0021, or mail 111 W. Madison St., Room 312 Tallahassee, FL 32399-1475.
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