New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer recently announced a year-long series of workshops to boost the contracting capacity of the city's minority- and woman-owned businesses (MWBEs).The workshops, going unde...

Published Feb 01, 2018

Commissioners for Shelby County voted on January 22nd on a first step in making fixes to the minority- and locally-owned business program that was approved by the county on the heels of a disparity study in December 2...

Published Jan 31, 2018

According to a recent report, state-funded contracts awarded in 2017 to businesses owned by Minnesota's minorities, women, and veterans increased by 89 percent over 2015, going from $40 million in contract dollars to $75 m...

Published Jan 18, 2018

Before leaving office, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed a bill from the legislature's 2016-2017 session intended to help minority- and woman-owned business enterprises (MWBEs) access capital for their busin...

Published Jan 17, 2018

Legislation proposed in the Missouri state legislature would expand the state's definition of a minority business enterprise (MBE).The proposed bill, HB 1332, sponsored by Randy Pietzman (R-District 41), w...

Published Jan 17, 2018

Clark Public Utilities of Clark County, Washington, has established vendor lists for supplying materials, equipment and supplies under RCW 54.04.082 and 39.04.190 which allows the Utility to publish notice of the existence...

Published Jan 10, 2018

Clark Public Utilities is updating its Small Works Roster for public works projects under Three Hundred Thousand Dollars ($300,000) and Clark Public Utilities' Professional Engineering & Architects Roster.A...

Published Jan 10, 2018

New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo recently took action on two bills relevant to minority- and women-owned businesses (MWBEs) in the state. While both bills are supported and seen as beneficial by many in the MWBE c...

Published Jan 05, 2018

Last month, Boston's City Council passed the Equity in City of Boston Contracts Ordinance, which codifies a number of aspects of the already-existing programs and procedures that exist for the benefit of minority- and wome...

Published Jan 02, 2018

The Devner City Council has unanimously approved a measure designed to foster greater payment security for minority- and women-owned businesses (MWBEs) that are performing subcontracting work for city contra...

Published Dec 26, 2017

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