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At a gathering of the nation’s leading black executives and entrepreneurs, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner characterized Carlecia Wright as a “financial maverick.”In her role as director of the Office of Business Opportunity, Wright helps foster a more competitive, inclusive commercial ecosystem by giving minority-...

Compared to national figures, procurement with California’s minority businesses better mirrored the state’s demographics but was still low The post New Report: Top CA Banks Do Little Contracting with Firms Owned by Minorities, Women appeared first on Los Angeles Sentinel....

More than 1,000 entrepreneurs and business owners attended Atlanta City Council President Ceasar Mitchell’s 5th Annual Back to Business (B2B) Conference…...

As CEO of ChemicoMays L.L.C., Leon Richardson has worked with more than 20 different minority businesses from a mentoring perspective over the last 10 years.“I work with 250 minority suppliers as co-chair of the General Motors Minority Supplier Council. I a...

Ronnie Isaac, CEO and Founder of Isaac EngineeringHailing from Queens, New York, Ronnie Isaac inherited an iron-clad work ethic from his father. His father became the only self-employed African American owner of an established HVAC Construction Company in the early 1970s. He eventually bequeathed the business to his former employer.[RELATED: Major...

Governor Charlie Baker expanded the minimum percent of state government spending designated for Massachusetts-based small businesses, Minority-owned Business Enterprises and Women-owned Business Enterprises; a streamlining of the certification processes and new certifications to acknowledge businesses owned by veterans, LGBT people and people with...

MBE Capital Partners, Inc. (MBECP), a certified minority owned enterprise that is the leading funding source for small to medium Minority Business Enterprises (MBEs), ha...