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 $695,711 cooperative agreement to the West Philadelphia Enterprise Center 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 Federal Assistance Program, which provides funding to promote and ensure growth of minority enterprises. Key performance metrics for the award include the number of minority businesses assisted, informed of COVID-19 assistance programs, and that submit applications or receive awards from programs as a result of the Enterprise Center's assistance. The funding will allow the Enterprise Center to serve and provide comprehensive relief to minority business communities and help prevent, prepare for, and respond to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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