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 $727,384 under the MBDA Business Center cooperative agreement to provide technical assistance, training, education, and advisory services to minority business enterprises affected by COVID-19. Funded through the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act and operating from July 2021 through September 2022, the University of Texas at San Antonio will deliver these services through its MBDA Business Center. Performance metrics include the number of minority businesses assisted, informed of COVID-19 assistance programs, and receiving awards from such programs. The sub-awardee University of Texas System Office of External Relations will support these efforts. The funding and period of performance aim to help minority businesses prepare for, respond to, and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic through the MBDA's Business Center Program.

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.