Baltimore City Receives $2M In Funding For Minority Owned Business Development

BALTIMORE (WJZ) —   In August, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Minority Business Development Agency awarded $2 cardinal to the Mayor’s Office of Small, Minority and Women Business to run the Mid-Atlantic Region Minority Business Development Agency Advanced Manufacturing Center.

The task volition supply targeted assistance to minority manufacturers and summation the fig of “Made successful America” products produced successful Baltimore. It’s designed to assistance identify, screen, promote, and notation minority business enterprises to advanced manufacturing programs.

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“In enactment with my administration’s extremity to beforehand equity and empower our minority– and women-owned businesses, the development of minority manufacturing and advanced manufacturing processes and procedures successful our metropolis volition amended employment opportunities for our residents and summation the nett worthy of Baltimore’s community-based businesses. Small businesses make jobs and beforehand economical maturation successful our Black and Brown communities, which person not historically received investment,” said Mayor Brandon Scott.

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This is the 4th MBDA assistance grant for the City of Baltimore and the 2nd grant focused on minority manufacturing.

“We are grateful for the continued enactment and assurance the Minority Business Development Agency has provided our program. We look guardant to continuing our efforts to grow minority manufacturers successful the Mid-Atlantic Region,” said N. Scott Phillips, Esq., Director of the Baltimore MBDA Advanced Manufacturing Center.

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One caller inaugural for the center is the Manufacturing Innovation HUB Cooperative. The cooperative volition supply shared resources and opportunities for its members. The caller circular of backing volition beryllium distributed implicit the people of the adjacent 5 years.

CBS Baltimore Staff