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Magic Johnson offering $100 million in loans to minority-owned businesses left out of PPP loans

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With the future of small businesses in urban communities at risk, former National Basketball Association great Magic Johnson has stepped in to offer assistance. The CEO of Magic Johnson Enterprises collaborated with MBE Capital Partners to offer $100 million in loans to minority- and women-owned companies hurt by stay-at-home orders due to Covid-19. The loans were funded through Johnson’s...

SBA Regional Administrator Ashley D. Bell & Rapper, Entrepreneur Tip "T.I." Harris Reached over 100,000 Entrepreneurs Across the South

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Goal was met in reaching 100k minority entrepreneurs to discuss COVID-19 Recovery opportunities ATLANTA – Yesterday evening, May 20th at 6:00 p.m. ET, Ashley D. Bell, SBA Regional Administrator and Entrepreneurship Policy Advisor for the White House Opportunity & Revitalization Council and Tip “T.I.” Harris, rapper, entertainer, and entrepreneur hosted a successful call for entrepreneurs across...

Spotlight on Commerce: Gabriela Morales, Senior Business Development Specialist

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Guest blog post by Gabriela Morales, Senior Business Development Specialist, Minority Business Development Administration (MBDA) I am excited to have the opportunity to be featured during Women’s History Month. I am a Senior Business Development Specialist at the Commerce Department's Minority Business Development Agency. My job is to ensure minority-owned firms have adequate skills, tools...

MBDA Opportunity Zone Summits

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Opportunity Zones are a tool created by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 to spur investment on underserved areas. They offer investors a tax incentive by investing their unrealized capital gains into a designated “Opportunity Fund.” Did you know that there are $2.3 trillion of unrealized capital gains in the United States? And did you know that the average Opportunity Zone consists of 56%...

Family-Owned Biz in PA Helps People Get More Sleep, while Protecting International Sales with EXIM Financing

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A couple in Erie, Pennsylvania found their entrepreneurial calling in 2007 when they started a business making head phones to help people fall asleep, and named it AcousticSheep LLC . They invented a comfortable ear-muff like sound system that can play music, audible books, and other sounds helpful for a restful night. The founders, Dr. Wei-Shin Lai, a family physician and her husband Jason Wolfe...

Indian-Owned Textile Company Maintains Made-in-USA Resources & Increases Global Sales w/ EXIM

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Nestled in the Township of Bensalem Pennsylvania is a small textile and design company called AKAS . The company was established in 2007 by Indian immigrants Sidharth and Archana Sharma who moved to the United States to create a better life for their children – Karishma and Ashrey. Living the American dream, the new business owners centered their company’s core values around family – so much so...

2018 Abe Venable Legacy Award for Lifetime Achievement

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The Abe Venable Legacy Award for Lifetime Achievement is presented to Dr. Leonard “Len” Greenhalgh , Faculty Director and Professor at Dartmouth College. Dr. Greenhalgh’s deep involvement in programs for minorities, Native Americans, and women – which ultimately became his life’s work – was motivated by seeing first-hand how minorities were treated during the social justice movement in the 1960s...

2018 Ronald H. Brown Leadership Award

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The Ronald H. Brown Leadership Award is presented to Margo K. Cargill , founder and CEO of Titanium Linx Consulting Inc., and president of the Uniondale New York Chamber of Commerce. With more than 22 years of combined experience in senior project management, marketing research, and strategic communications, Ms. Cargill is best described as a partnership architect with the proven ability of...

2018 Distinguished Supplier Diversity Award

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The Distinguished Supplier Diversity Award is presented to The Coca-Cola Company . The Coca-Cola Company is a total beverage company, offering over 500 brands in more than 200 countries and territories. Recognizing the impact that they have on the worldwide supply chain in the industry, Coca‐Cola encourages their own suppliers to adopt diversity programs and goes beyond its own industry to...

2018 Advocate of the Year

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Advocate of the Year is presented to Natalie Madeira Cofield , founder of Walker's Legacy, a global platform for the professional and entrepreneurial multicultural woman. In 2009, when Ms. Cofield found herself in need of female mentors and role models during the formation of her first entrepreneurial venture, Walker’s Legacy was born. Recognizing the need for positive and accessible examples of...

2018 Access to Capital Award

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The Access to Capital Award is presented to MBE Capital Partners, LLC (MBECP) , the country's only Direct Lending Certified Minority Finance Company and the largest independent finance provider for small- to middle-market minority- and women-owned business enterprises in the U.S., Caribbean and Mexico. Originally founded to provide a suite of capital products designed specifically for small and...

2018 Veteran-Owned Business of the Year

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The Veteran-Owned Business of the Year is IMR Development Corp. Established in 2009, IMR is a service-disabled veteran-owned company that was formed to serve a niche market for smaller businesses in the construction management and infrastructure sectors. Initially focusing heavily on the construction and inspection services, IMR has expanded the company to include a Trenchless Division that offers...

2018 Minority Professional Services Firm of the Year

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Minority Professional Services Firm of the Year is awarded to Resource Management Inc. (RMI) , a family-owned human resource, benefits, and insurance solutions provider. Established in 1995, RMI provides small to mid-size companies with a variety of services including human resources, payroll preparation, risk management, and employment law compliance. A founding vision of the company was to help...

2018 Minority Manufacturing Firm of the Year

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Minority Manufacturing Firm of the Year is presented to Champion Controls, Inc . Founded in 2003, Champion Controls is a leading control system integrator and manufacturer of quality engineered control systems, serving the heavy movable structures industry. Since its inception, Champion has experienced substantial growth, averaging 40% in the first 10 years and a more controlled steady growth rate...

2018 Minority Health Products and Services Firm of the Year

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Minority Health Products and Services Firm of the Year is presented to Anpac Bio-Medical Science Company . Co-founded in 2010 by Chinese-American scientists Dr. Chris Yu and Dr. Herbert Yu, Anpac Bio is the only liquid biopsy services company fully-commercialized and earning revenue worldwide. The company’s proprietary “Cancer Differentiation Analysis” (CDA) medical devices and liquid biopsy...