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"In my many years of corporate selling, NOTHING has given me more quality opportunities as my MBE Certification.  We as minorities must have quality products, excellent service, and first rate systems - and when we have those - SCMBDC gets us opportunities like no other organization."
Francine V. Limón,
Inka Corporate Products, LLC

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About SCMBDC

Southern California Minority Business Development Council (SCMBDC) – formerly Southern California Regional Purchasing Councils – is the largest nonprofit minority business advocacy organization in the region, serving 1,300 minority business enterprises and 300 corporate members throughout 13 counties.

Our mission is to support and develop minority business enterprises to compete and succeed in the open market through three primary objectives:

  • To open the corporate purchasing and contracting door for minority business owners
  • To provide corporations with information on qualified minority suppliers, and
  • To enhance employment in the minority community through increased corporate purchases

Headquartered in Los Angeles, we are one of 38 regional councils in the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC). Our members receive extended outreach and access through NMSDC's more than 3,600 corporations and 15,000 minority businesses

Since the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and the Minority Enterprise Coalition of Los Angeles created SCMBDC nearly 30 years ago, corporate purchases with minority businesses have grown dramatically. According to the NMSDC, corporate purchases from minority vendors totaled $70 billion in 2002, up from $86 million in 1972. Similarly, SCMBDC corporate purchases from minority vendors in 2002 totaled $6.8 billion, up from $35 million in 1975.

Initially funded with federal government dollars, SCMBDC has been entirely supported by the private sector since 1980. Since the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and the Minority Enterprise Coalition of Los Angeles created SCMBDC nearly 30 years ago, corporate purchases with minority businesses have grown dramatically. According to the NMSDC, corporate purchases from minority vendors totaled $70 billion in 2002, up from $86 million in 1972. Similarly, SCMBDC corporate purchases from minority vendors in 2002 totaled $6.8 billion, up from $35 million in 1975.Since the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and the Minority Enterprise Coalition of Los Angeles created SCMBDC nearly 30 years ago, corporate purchases with minority businesses have grown dramatically. According to the NMSDC, corporate purchases from minority vendors totaled $70 billion in 2002, up from $86 million in 1972. Similarly, SCMBDC corporate purchases from minority vendors in 2002 totaled $6.8 billion, up from $35 million in 1975.

 
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