Chinese American Chamber Of Commerce - MN

Chinese American Chamber Of Commerce - MN is a Minneapolis-based nonprofit community development corporation that operates exclusively as a federal grant recipient and sub-recipient, delivering small-business technical assistance and public-health community outreach to underserved populations across Minnesota. CACC-MN does not hold federal contracts and competes in the federal grant space as a community-based organization serving minority entrepreneurs, women-owned businesses, veteran entrepreneurs, and socially disadvantaged small-business communities.

CACC-MN's federal footprint is sparse and grant-focused. The organization holds a single prime federal grant — a $1 million Project Grant award from the Small Business Administration's Office of Entrepreneurial Development under the Community Navigator Pilot Program (award date December 2021, completion November 2023). Under that grant, CACC-MN and its subrecipients delivered one-on-one counseling and group trainings on pandemic relief programs and SBA initiatives to historically underserved small-business populations, with quarterly reporting to SBA on activity and progress toward goals.

CACC-MN's current footprint consists predominantly of sub-recipient grant awards (89% of recent activity) flowing through federal and state grantees. The organization functions as a spoke in the Community Navigator Hub-and-Spoke model, receiving sub-awards from the Minnesota Department of Human Services under the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant (four sub-awards dated February 2023, July 2023, and July 2024) and from the National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for vaccination-equity outreach (two sub-awards dated April 2023 and September 2023). Combined obligated dollars across all awards total $2.6 million over the past three years. Customer concentration is split between the Department of Health and Human Services (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention components accounting for six of nine awards) and the Small Business Administration. Activity is episodic — one award in 2021, seven in 2023, and one in 2024 — reflecting project-based sub-grant cycles rather than continuous contracting. CACC-MN does not maintain seats on federal IDIQs, GWACs, or blanket purchasing agreements, and does not serve as a federal contract prime or subcontractor.