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 an $852,148 cooperative agreement to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation under the MBDA Business Center federal grant program (CFDA #11.805) to provide technical assistance, training, education, and advisory services to minority business enterprises affected by COVID-19. Performance goals include assisting minority businesses, informing them of COVID-19 assistance programs, submitting applications to such programs, and supporting economically distressed minority firms. The period of performance is July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia. The award will support the Office of Sponsored Programs in delivering services to enhance minority business resilience during the pandemic through the MBDA Business Center.

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.