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 a $494,672 cooperative agreement to Walkers Legacy LLC to deliver technical assistance, training, education, and advisory services to minority business enterprises affected by COVID-19 through June 30, 2023. The award will support the MBDA Business Center program, which provides Federal assistance to promote and ensure growth of minority enterprises. Performance metrics include the number of minority businesses assisted, informed of COVID-related assistance programs, and that submit applications or receive awards from such programs. The funding also aims to track numbers and types of minority businesses impacted with a focus on small, medium, and large entities. The placement of performance under this award aligns with the MBDA's mission to foster the establishment and growth of minority-owned businesses through its Business Center network.

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