The City of Norwalk, in partnership between the local branch of the NAACP, recently launched a program to increase the number of Norwalk-based companies certified as Connecticut minority and women business e...

Published Dec 22, 2017

MassHousing spent more than $2.2 million on goods and services with 34 different minority- and women-owned businesses (MWBEs) last year, exceeding the Commonwealth's own MWBE contracting goals and increasing their own spen...

Published Dec 04, 2017

A bill written for the purpose of improving and adding entrepreneurship training initiatives for veterans has been introduced in the U.S. Senate and has the bipartisan backing of Senator Dean Heller (R-...

Published Nov 30, 2017

The State of Texas has released it's annual Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) Program report for Fiscal Year 2017. During this period, nearly 12 percent of all state contracts - equal to almost $2.5 billion - were ...

Published Nov 27, 2017

Since 1997, the City of St. Louis has maintained, by a continuously renewed executive order from the office of the mayor, a policy of awarding 25 percent of subcontracts on city projects to minority-owned businesses (MBEs)...

Published Nov 16, 2017

North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper signed an executive order earlier this month setting a goal for the state's Cabinet-level agencies to purchase 10 percent of the dollar amount of goods and services they contract for...

Published Nov 16, 2017

African-American-owned businesses are largely being left out of City of Chicago contracts, according to recent figures from the administration of Mayor Rahm Emanuel. While minority and women-owned business...

Published Nov 13, 2017

The public is invited to submit comments to the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) regarding its proposed Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) goal for all Federal Highway Administratio...

Published Nov 01, 2017

A study is underway to determine whether small, minority, women, and other disadvantaged businesses are able to fairly compete for City of Tacoma contracts.With the help of an independent consult...

Published Oct 23, 2017

The dollar share of New York City contracting opportunities going to minority- and women-owned business enterprises (MWBEs) more than doubled in 2016 from its 2015 total, going from $400 million to over $1 billion....

Published Oct 09, 2017

In a unanimous 42-0 vote, the New York City Council recently approved a construction worker safety training bill that requires all workers on construction sites of three stories high or taller to complete at least 40 hours...

Published Oct 09, 2017

The Metropolitan Government of Nashville & Davidson County (Metro Nashville) is conducting two studies analyzing participation levels of minority- and women-owned business enterprises (M/WBEs) in Metro Nashville c...

Published Sep 28, 2017

Two public meetings regarding the City of New Orleans 2017 Disparity Study will be held at the beginning of October and the public - and minority- and women-owned firms (M/WBEs) in particlar - is invited to provi...

Published Sep 28, 2017

Monroe County legislators have introduced a plan to modify the county's existing minority- and women-owned business enterprise (M/WBE) policy to include veteran-owned businesses (VOBs) and service disabled-owned busin...

Published Sep 28, 2017

The City of Greensboro is in the process of deciding how best to receive public comment on the subject of its upcoming disparity study, which will examine disparities in city contracting participation with regard to minori...

Published Sep 18, 2017