Diversity Information Resources continues its mission to create products and services providing supplier diversity information.

Provides business and technical assistance that helps emerging and existing minority businesses experience significant growth and sustainability and have a long-term economic impact through the creation of jobs and revenue.

GRANTS and LOANS Database - pre-Application Wizard - Guide to Federal Funding. Recommended by: Wall Street Journal, American Library Association, Entrepreneur Magazine, Chronicle of Philanthropy.

City of Charlotte's MWBD Program.

The Minority Bank Deposit Program (MBDP) is a voluntary program to encourage Federal agencies, State and local governments and the private sector to use MBDP participants as depositaries and financial agents.

Franchising directory listing over 1,000 franchisors, attorneys, consultants and service providers. Detailed profiles on each company.

The primary objective of the National Minority Supplier Development Council is providing a direct link between corporate America and minority-owned businesses.

The ODA Minority Business Development Center provides a wide array of business assistance and services to minority businesses. The MBDC is funded by the U.S. Department of Commerce MBDA.

The Small, Disadvantaged and Minority Business (SDMB) Community is a vital and important part of our country’s economic health and well being. Government officials, who recognize this importance, have spoken repeatedly on the need to bring more economic opportunity to the SDMB Community.

U.S. Census Bureau - 1997 Economic Census, Surveys of Minority-Owned and Women-Owned Business Enterprises. Provide valuable economic data on business owners' race,ethnicity, and gender.

Department of Transportation's Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization. OSDBU is responsible for the development and implementation of activities directed at ensuring small, women-owned and minority, disadvantaged business participation in DOT's contracting.

Informative database of Minority and Women Business Enterprises (M/WBE's) and contact's within Fortune 1000 companies. FREE to register and use. E-procurement resource that maintains a national database with up to date information, as well as provides all the data necessary for the expansion of M/WBE's on a national basis.

Specifically created to encourage the creation, growth, and expansion of minority-owned businesses in the United States. MBDA's programs form a national business service network which effectively addresses the special needs of minority entrepreneurs throughout the United States.