Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
The Office of Supplier Diversity (OSD) helps to improve business opportunities for Florida-based woman-, veteran-, and minority-owned small businesses. OSD manages a state certification program for eligible small businesses, maintains an online directory of certified business enterprises, and conducts outreach and training for small businesses ...
Stellar is a privately owned design, engineering, construction, and mechanical services firm headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. It has designed and built projects for a wide range of clientele, including Starbucks, Nestlé, Walt Disney World, and numerous others. Stellar employs more than 750 people, including architects, engineers ...
It is the oldest Black-owned architecture and construction company in the United States. [7] The firm was founded in 1905 in Nashville, Tennessee by Moses McKissack, the grandson of an enslaved person brought to the United States from West Africa and put to work making bricks. Moses III became an accomplished carpenter and eventually teamed ...
Colorado scores high for percentage of employer businesses owned by women (36%), employment rate among women (63%), female-owned businesses that earn a revenue of $1 million or more (27%), and ...
In 1972, women-owned businesses accounted for 4.6 per cent of all U.S. businesses—that was about 1.5 million self-employed women. That number increased to 2.1 million in 1979 and 3.5 million in 1984. In 1997, there were about 5.4 million women-owned businesses and in 2007, that number increased to 7.8 million.
The Women's Business Ownership Act of 1988 was an act of the United States Congress introduced by John LaFalce aimed at aiding the success of women business entrepreneurs. [1] [2] It provides a basis for policies, programs, and public/private sector initiatives supporting women's business endeavors. [3]
Anne E'del Deacon: [14] First female municipal judge in Palm Beach, Florida and fifth female judge in Florida [Palm Beach County, Florida] Catherine Brunson: [113] First African American female lawyer to work for the Palm Beach County Attorney’s Office (1977), set up a law practice (1984), and to serve on the Circuit Court in Palm Beach ...