Our Core Competencies

Our programs and services are aimed at helping minority businesses grow and prosper while providing corporations with information on qualified minority suppliers.

We offer an array of programs and services to our certified minority businesses and our corporate members.
These include:

• Minority Business Certification (Asian, Black, Hispanic and Native American) following completion of staff audit, Certification Committee review and approval, onsite visits, and ratification by the full board of directors.
• Referrals of minority suppliers capable of providing quality goods and services at competitive prices to corporate buyers.
• Access to working capital loans to certified minority businesses.
• Networking opportunities, organized by industry sectors, where suppliers speak directly to purchasing agents.
• Workshops and seminars to help minority businesses manage, promote and sell their products and services.
• Access to and participation in the Minority Business Information Systems, a national computerized database of more than 15,000 certified minority suppliers.
• Business opportunity fairs, which allow minority entrepreneurs to meet with prospective buyers and provide corporations an opportunity to recruit prospective suppliers.
• Advanced Management Education, a customized executive education program for CEOs of minority-owned firms interested in accelerated growth.
• Health insurance benefits tailored specially for certified minority businesses with up to 50 employees.
• Annual events, such as the Supplier of the Year Awards luncheon, which recognizes outstanding minority business partnerships with member corporations, and Corporate Leadership Awards dinner, which honors a corporation for advancing business opportunities with minority suppliers.