Resource Showcase for Minority Owned and Diverse Businesses*

The North Shore Alliance for Economic Development will be hosting a Resource Showcase for Minority Owned & Diverse Businesses on Tuesday, June 25, 2024 from 3:00-6:00pm pm at the Enterprise Center.

The goal of this event is to bring greater awareness of the private and public resources available to these businesses and to continue to expand the work of its online Small Business Diversity Directory.

Attendees will be able to meet Resource showcase representatives, receive information, ask questions and network. Additionally, attendees will learn more about joining the Alliances online regional Diversity Directory that helps to improve equity and diversity in both public and private sector contracting.

Who Should Attend: Any current or future minority owned and diverse Business*

* Participating businesses must demonstrate that meet the following criteria:

Have at least 51% of the ownership team in at least one of the following categories: Immigrant, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender persons/people (LGBTQIA), Black/African American, Hispanic or Latino (Central/South American or Caribbean), American Indian/Alaskan Native, Asian, Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander, Portuguese, Disability-Owned, Service-Disabled Veteran, Veteran, and/or Woman/Women.

How to Register: The Resource Showcase is at no cost to attendees. Registration is required to attend.

Resource Showcase Participants to date:

• Amplify LATINX https://amplifylatinx.com/
• Mass Development https://www.massdevelopment.com/
• Mass Growth Capital https://www.empoweringsmallbusiness.org/
• Massachusetts Small Business Development Center https://www.salemstate.edu/sbdc
• Mass.Gov Supplier Diversity Office (SDO) https://www.mass.gov/orgs/supplier-diversity-office-sdo
• Mill Cities Community Investment (MCCI/FBE) https://www.mccinvest.org/
• Northeast Legal Aid https://www.northeastlegalaid.org/
• North Shore CDC https://northshorecdc.org/
• North Shore Latino Business Association https://mynslba.com/
• SBA https://www.sba.gov/
• SCORE https://www.score.org/
• Supplier Diversity Office (SDO Massachusetts https://www.mass.gov/orgs/supplier-diversity-office-sdo
• U.S. Haitian Chamber of Commerce https://www.ushaitianchamber.org/

Host or Publisher North Shore Alliance For Economic Development