AT&T, Walmart, GM, and Microsoft all have one thing in common; they can be found among 21 major corporations on the Billion Dollar Roundtable, a group that spends at least one billion dollars with tier 1 minority and women-owned business enterprises. In a world of minority purchasing, the Billion Dollar Roundtable stands out.Billion Dollar...
Department of Community and Economic Development Secretary Dennis Davin today announced the creation of a new loan program to be administered through the Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority (PIDA), dedicated to......
Sodexo, world leader in Quality of Life Services, operates at more than 9,000 client sites throughout North America, providing more than 100 technical services ranging from facilities management to food service operations. It......
The federal government spends about $1 billion on advertising services, but history continues to show that small businesses and local and minority-owned media companies are mostly left out....
Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) achieved another record year in 2015 with 44.7 percent of its contracting spend with woman, minority, and service-disabled veteran-owned business enterprises. This was the fourth straight year that......
R&R Resources +, a certified minority business enterprise, has been selected to oversee brand marketing efforts for MGM National Harbor, the $1.3 billion casino and resort project being constructed along the Potomac River in Prince George's County....
The proliferation of sleek office buildings and condo towers rising in Boston’s downtown neighborhoods attests to the fact that Boston is in the midst of its largest building boom since the stately mansions of the Back Bay rose from the landfill in the late 1800s. For blacks in design, construction and related industries, Boston’s current building...
U.S. Representative Maxine Waters recently took the federal government’s financial services agencies to task for not promoting racial and ethnic diversity in their employment ranks. On Nov. 5, Waters, the ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services C...
The Massachusetts Diversity Coalition started with the goal to make sure that the state’s minority- and women-owned businesses got a piece of the growing gaming sector. However, the group now has bigger fish to fry — it wants to make sure that all major development projects make diversity a priority....
A study released by Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer found that only 5 percent of minority- and women-owned businesses get New York City contracts.Eight years after the city passed a law to help minority businesses, only 25.5 percent of the 500 businesses Stringer’s office contacted said they had a contract with the city, which...
Since April, when the $2 trillion COVID-19 Stimulus Bill was passed and the Small Business…
Read MoreThe landscape of summer artist shows and vending spaces has come to an abrupt stop…
Read MoreChaymeriyia Moncrief is a tech entrepreneur from Alabama who is the founder and CEO of…
Read MoreOneUnited Bank, the largest Black-owned bank in the country, is proud to announce the launch…
Read MoreSouth Los Angeles businesses are experiencing a renaissance. COVID-19 has presented obstacles and setbacks, however,…
Read More