These local organizations won $1M SBA contracts to execute the Biden-Harris Administration’s Community Navigator Pilot Program.
It is designed to reduce barriers that all small businesses, including those owned by disadvantaged groups such as veterans, women, and those from rural communities and communities of color, often face in accessing critical support. The Community Navigator Pilot Program will provide $100 million in funding to 51 organizations that will work with hundreds of local groups to connect America’s entrepreneurs to government resources so they can recover and thrive. program link
Some of the Tier 1 Winners are:
Local Initiatives Support Corporation
National Urban League
Oweesta Corporation
U.S. Black Chambers Economic Development Corporation
U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
U.S. Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce Education Foundation
South Carolina Association for Community Economic Development
Vermont Small Business Development Center
Cape Verdean Association of Brockton
Chatham Business Association
Chinese American Chamber of Commerce
Foundation for Puerto Rico
New Bedford Economic Development Council
Springfield Small Business Development Center
Read more with Black Boston, October 30, 2021
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