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| November 17, 2021 | Baltimore Mayor Invests $55m in Job Training, Small Biz Recovery & More | The economic recovery funds will be divided by five entities serving as “fiscal agents to facilitate recovery.” The Baltimore Development Corporation will get $11.7 million to provide rel ...Read more |
| November 12, 2021 | Wisconsin Veteran Business Owners Seek Action | The Wisconsin State Legislature created the Supplier Diversity Program and in 2014 set a goal of awarding one percent of state contracts to veteran-owned businesses. That goal has never been ...Read more |
| November 12, 2021 | Diverse Rail Contractors Charge Racism in Contracting Practices | Minority and women-owned businesses face discrimination while attempting to win federal passenger rail contracts, businesses owners told the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee on Tuesd ...Read more |
| November 5, 2021 | Thirty DBE Firms Partnering with Los Angeles SkyRail | The Los Angeles SkyRail Express (LASRE) is taking a major step forward in their commitment to diversity and opportunity in the transportation sector. LASRE, a grouping of transportation, cons ...Read more |
| November 1, 2021 | Major Cities Creating LGBT Business Certifications | On Wednesday, Boston Mayor Kim Janey signed an executive order adding LGBTQ-owned businesses to the city’s Supplier Diversity program. According to the ...Read more |
| October 20, 2021 | PNC Grants $16.8m to Howard U. for Black Business Development | “The center will support expanded opportunities for Black entrepreneurship with enhanced educational, leadership and capacity-building resources and programs nationwide,” the ...Read more |
| October 11, 2021 | New LGBTQ+ Cert Opens Opportunities for Los Angeles County Contracts | Los Angeles County is creating increasing opportunities for LGBTQ-owned businesses. It’s doing so by expanding the county's Community Business Enterprise (CBE) certification program. LA C ...Read more |
| October 6, 2021 | Albuquerque Gets $1.8m for Minority Business Development Center | The grants will be dispersed over the course of five years, coming out to $375,000 per year. “Funding will assist center operations integral to the establishment and growth of minority-owned busi ...Read more |
| September 2, 2021 | Contract for DC’s Black Lives Matter Plaza Awarded to White-Owned Firm | Black Lives Matter Plaza is a two-block pedestrian street in Washington, DC, named in 2020 by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Mayor Bowser showed her ...Read more |
| August 26, 2021 | EPA Creates Diversity Task Force, Will Spend More With DBEs | Earlier this month, an internal EPA email was obtained by E&E news. In it, Deputy Administrator Janet McCabe told employees of the agency that a “diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (D ...Read more |