Tag: Small Businesses

Biden-Harris Administration Awards Record-Breaking $154.2 Billion in Contracting to Small Businesses

Biden-Harris Administration Awards Record-Breaking $154.2 Billion in Contracting to Small Businesses

Today, Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman, head of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and the voice for America’s 33 million small businesses in President Biden’s Cabinet, announced that the Biden-Harris Administration exceeded its small business federal contracting goal, awarding 27.2 percent or $154.2 billion in federal contract dollars to small businesses, an $8 billion increase from the previous fiscal year.

Advancing Black entrepreneurs

Advancing Black entrepreneurs

As a step toward helping black-owned businesses recover and move forward, a coalition of four business advocacy groups — the National Minority Supplier Development Council, US Black Chambers, National Urban League and Black Enterprise — have partnered with JPMorgan Chase to launch Advancing Black Entrepreneurs by Chase for Business.