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| September 24, 2021 | Black business leaders call for changes to Oakland’s SLBE/LBE program | Oakland multicultural business leaders have requested that the city address and take action in reforming the disparities in contracting opportunities for Black-, Minority- and Women-owned businesse ...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 12, 2021 | Study Says Public Private Partnerships Have Higher DBE Participation | Researchers at the University of Maryland’s A. James Clark School of Engineering published a study recently by professor Qingbin Cui and doctoral student Kinqi Zhang in the journal Transportation ...Read more |
| August 11, 2021 | OMB Report IDs Major Faults in Equity in Federal Programs | OMB, under the leadership of Acting Director Shalanda Young, consulted with a number of US and international experts of matters of equity including assessment and improvement, data science and “o ...Read more |
| July 24, 2021 | Alameda County Officials Undertaking Disparity Study; Possible Improvements to its ELB/SLB program | Alameda County is requesting Small Businesses to participate in ...Read more |
| July 1, 2021 | Columbus Seeking to Expand City Contracts with M/WBEs | According to a 2019 study, there is a notable disparity for minority- and women-owned businesses (M/WBEs) who are awarded prime and subcontracts in Columbus, OH. The Columbus City Council will be < ...Read more |
| June 30, 2021 | City of Arlington Implements a Minority and Women-Owned Enterprise Policy | The City of Arlington has adopted a "MWBE (Minority Woman Business Enterprise) Program" and has established an Office of Business Diversity in hopes to increase participation with minority and wome ...Read more |
| June 25, 2021 | Many Improvements Needed in Federal Procurement Program - Report | A new report released on Tuesday sheds a lot of light on the state of the federal government’s procurement from small businesses. The report, from the Bipartisan Policy Center in partnership with ...Read more |
| June 22, 2021 | White Women Reap the Bulk of Minnesota’s DBE Dollars | The ratio is reflective of a national problem according to Sean Skibbie, interim director of civil rights and the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT). “White women tend to be, sometime ...Read more |
| June 21, 2021 | California Draft Budget Would Fund $30m New Hospital in San Diego | The state’s draft budget includes $30 million for a new hospital to replace the University of California San Diego’s medical center, which according to an internal seismic safety survey ...Read more |