11.803: Minority Business Opportunity Center (MBOC)

11.803

Inactive

Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) [DOC]

May 4, 2012

Sept. 19, 2008

To promote access to key decision makers in the public and private sectors , facilitate the brokering of contracts and financial transactions, and identify and coordinate local business resources to benefit minority business entrepreneurs. Facilitate business opportunities for minority businesses through the utilization of public and private sector organizations that provide minority business owners/individuals with enhanced access to the marketplace by identifying and brokering procurement and contract awards, marketing and sales opportunities, financing transactions and potential joint ventures or merger and acquisitions; by promoting relationship building and sharing of business information between organizations in a geographic service area; by conducting media outreach, by disseminating economic data, by sponsoring workshops, conferences and seminars within service area; and by maintaining inventories of resources such as bid opportunities, sources of debt and equity funds, business ownership possibilities such as franchises, and prospective joint venture partners.

Applicants for this program are Federal, State or local government entities or quasi governmental entities, American Indian Tribes, colleges, universities, nonprofit organizations, and for project organizations.

Client/Beneficiaries of this program are minority business persons/firms. Eligible client/ beneficiaries of this program have been designated as African American, Native American, Aleut, Asian Indian, Asian Pacific American, Eskimo, Hasidic Jew, Puerto Rican, and Spanish- Speaking Americans.

11.800

59.009 - Procurement Assistance to Small Businesses

11.801 - Native American Business Enterprise Centers

59.006 - 8(a) Business Development Program

11.303 - Economic Development Technical Assistance

15.850 - Indian Arts and Crafts Development