The minority business development agency will use the coronavirus response and relief funding to serve and provide a more comprehensive relief to minority business enterprises to prevent, prepare for,…

The Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) awarded $511,805 under the MBDA Business Center cooperative agreement to the Rocky Mountain Minority Supplier Development Council, doing business as Rocky Mountain Minority Supplier Development. The award will support the delivery of technical assistance, training, education, and advisory services to minority business enterprises to prevent, prepare for, and respond to effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Key performance metrics include the number of minority business enterprises assisted, informed of COVID-19 assistance programs, and applications submitted to such programs with center assistance. The award period is July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022 under the MBDA's MBDA Business Center program (CFDA 11.805), which provides Federal assistance to promote and ensure growth of minority enterprises.

The minority business development agency will use the coronavirus response and relief funding to serve and provide a more comprehensive relief to minority business enterprises to prevent, prepare for, and respond to effects of covid-19. Such assistance will include technical assistance, training, education, and advisory services to minority business enterprises. The performance goals and metrics include: number of minority business enterprises affected by covid-19 that are assisted by the business center; number of minority business enterprises informed and/or referred by the business center to covid-related local, state, and federal government assistance programs; number of MBE applications submitted to local, state, and federal government assistance programs as a result of business center assistance; number of awards issued by local, state, and federal programs to minority business enterprises assisted by the business center; and number and type (small, medium, large, ) of minority business enterprises affected by covid-19, in economically distressed areas, assisted by the business center.