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Small business grants for minorities provide funds to minority business owners — groups that have historically lacked fair access to business capital.
Minority business enterprise (MBE) is an American designation for businesses which are at least 51% owned, operated and controlled on a daily basis by one or more (in combination) American citizens of the following ethnic minority and/or gender (e.g. woman-owned) and/or military veteran classifications: [citation needed] African American.
The Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) was created by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. in 2012. GO-Biz serves as the State of California's leader for job growth and economic development efforts. GO-Biz offers a range of services to business owners, including attraction, retention and expansion services, site selection, permit streamlining, clearing of regulatory ...
The Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that promotes growth and competitiveness of the United States ' minority -owned businesses, including Hispanic and Latino American, Asian Pacific American, African American, and Native American businesses. [1] The current Under Secretary is Eric Morrissette, who is serving in an acting ...
May 13—A center focused on helping socially and economically disadvantaged business owners is now open in Las Vegas, N.M. The New Mexico Minority Business Development Agency, a federal agency ...
Food producers who have participated in California’s state-funded “Farm to School” grant program are benefiting from significant growth in their business revenues, a new progress report has ...
The United States Small Business Administration (SBA) is an independent agency of the United States government that provides support to entrepreneurs and small businesses. The mission of the Small Business Administration is "to maintain and strengthen the nation's economy by enabling the establishment and viability of small businesses and by ...
Elections in California. Proposition 209 (also known as the California Civil Rights Initiative or CCRI) is a California ballot proposition which, upon approval in November 1996, amended the state constitution to prohibit state governmental institutions from considering race, sex, or ethnicity, specifically in the areas of public employment ...