Right-sizing history — and the future of entrepreneurship.
#RightSizeSBA
Redefine Small. Recognize Micro. Right-Size Opportunity.
About the Campaign
The #RightSizeSBA campaign is a national effort led by WayBuilders and partners to ensure the SBA’s new size standards truly work for all entrepreneurs.
On August 22, 2025, the Small Business Administration proposed raising the revenue-based thresholds that define what counts as a “small business” across 263 industries. While these changes could expand opportunity for many firms, they also risk unintentionally disadvantaging the smallest of the small: microbusinesses.
Ecosystem builders, entrepreneurial support organizations, and community champions have a critical role to play in making sure the SBA gets this right. By submitting comments, sharing stories, and rallying around a clear ask, we can help shape a policy that recognizes the full spectrum of entrepreneurship in America.
Why it Matters
Microbusinesses make up the majority of small businesses in America. They are daycares, janitorial companies, caterers, small retail shops, landscapers, IT consultants, and more. They are disproportionately rural and Main Street based, women-owned, immigrant-owned, and minority-owned. Yet under the proposed rules, they may find themselves competing against firms 10, 20, even 50 times their size. Without safeguards, the very businesses SBA was created to support could be overshadowed.
This is more than a policy tweak — it’s about whether America’s smallest entrepreneurs remain visible in the data, valued in our systems, and supported in their growth.
Our Call: Create a Microbusiness Designation
WayBuilders and partners are calling for the SBA to establish a “Microbusiness” designation within its size standards. This would:
Recognize firms with under ~$500K in receipts or fewer than 10 employees as a distinct category.
Preserve access for microbusinesses to SBA loans, contracts, and programs.
Ensure policymakers, funders, and researchers can measure and support microbusinesses without their data being diluted by larger “small” firms.
This simple step would make sure “small” doesn’t erase the smallest — and most vital — businesses in our economy.
Take Action
The SBA is currently accepting public comments. After familiarizing yourself with the full SBA Proposed Rule changes, here’s how to make your voice heard:
Download the full #RightSizeSBA Campaign Kit below and help spread the word.
Download ready-to-use the Formal Comment Memo and Comment Templates for independent ecosystem builders, ESOs, or coalitions below. Each includes our core ask for a Microbusiness designation.
Submit comment(s) to the SBA by October 21, 2025 (Docket No. SBA-2025-0102).
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