Dollar General Announces Its 2024 Diverse Supplier Awards
GOODLETTSVILLE, Tenn. – Dollar General believes that a diverse workplace and an inclusive culture foster an environment where the retailer’s customers, employees, vendors and communities alike can feel welcomed. The company, which operates more than 20,000 stores across 48 states, says that it sees its diverse teams as a strategic advantage that allow it to better serve its customers and communities with relevant products they can trust.
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The Pulse: NAACP Challenges Anti-DEI Legal Efforts
As part of NMSDC’s ongoing efforts to promote DEI and push back against efforts threatening supplier diversity and other DEI programs, we are highlighting the latest DEI news, legal developments, and court filings. The April edition of the Pulse is below.
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Dollar General Announces Its 2024 Diverse Supplier Awards
GOODLETTSVILLE, Tenn. – Dollar General believes that a diverse workplace and an inclusive culture foster an environment where the retailer’s customers, employees, vendors and communities alike can feel welcomed. The company, which operates more than 20,000 stores across 48 states, says that it sees its diverse teams as a strategic advantage that allow it to better serve its customers and communities with relevant products they can trust.
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The Pulse: NAACP Challenges Anti-DEI Legal Efforts
As part of NMSDC’s ongoing efforts to promote DEI and push back against efforts threatening supplier diversity and other DEI programs, we are highlighting the latest DEI news, legal developments, and court filings. The April edition of the Pulse is below.
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The Pulse: NAACP Challenges Anti-DEI Legal Efforts
As part of NMSDC’s ongoing efforts to promote DEI and push back against efforts threatening supplier diversity and other DEI programs, we are highlighting the latest DEI news, legal developments, and court filings. The April...
DEI
CHIPS for America Announces over $50 million Funding Opportunity to Encourage Small Business Research and Development
Today, the Biden-Harris Administration issued a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to seek applications from eligible small businesses to explore the technical merit or feasibility of an innovative idea or technology for developing a viable...
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The Pulse: Minority Trade Groups Call on Fortune 500 CEOs to Stand Firm on DEI
As part of NMSDC's ongoing efforts to lift up DEI and push back against the unfounded and cynical attacks on supplier diversity and other DEI programs, we are highlighting the latest DEI news, legal developments,...
Advocacy
BEA Foundation Releases Policy Agenda to Advance Black Work, Wages, and Wealth
Washington, DC – (February 14, 2024) Today, the Black Economic Alliance (BEA) Foundation, the nation’s leading organization of Black business leaders and aligned advocates advancing Black economic prosperity, released a new Policy Agenda to Advance...
Advocacy
U.S. Department of Commerce Releases 2023 Update to Equity Action Plan, Outlines New Commitments to Advance Equity
Today the U.S. Department of Commerce released the 2023 update to its Equity Action Plan, in coordination with the Biden-Harris Administration’s whole-of-government equity agenda. This Equity Action Plan is part of the Department’s efforts to...
Advocacy
NMSDC Participates in Contracting, Procurement, and Supplier Diversity Survey Findings and Virtual Roundtable
This convening was presented by Reimagine Main Street, a project of the Public Private Strategies Institute, to focus on a national survey of diverse businesses to better understand the contracting experience of diverse and small...
Advocacy
Introducing The Pulse: the Latest DEI News, Legal Developments, and Court Filings
As part of NMSDC's ongoing efforts to lift up DEI and push back against the unfounded and cynical attacks on supplier diversity and other DEI programs, we have started a monthly newsletter and blog feature...
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Small Business Administration (SBA) 2024 Growth Accelerator Fund Competition Applications are Now Open
Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman, head of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and the voice in President Biden’s Cabinet for America’s 33 million small businesses and startups, announced the 2024 Growth Accelerator Fund Competition (GAFC)...
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