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A Baltimore MEDWeek Event Presented by Baltimore Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young, the Mayor’s Office of Small, Minority and Women Business, the Mid-Atlantic Region MBDA Advanced Manufacturing Center – Baltimore, and the Regional Manufacturing Institute of Maryland YOU'RE INVITED! Minority Manufacturers | OEMs | Others in the Industry Supply Chain | Resource & Service Providers to the Industry | Promoting Supplier Diversity & Inclusion The Minority Manufacturing Symposium, a Baltimore MEDWeek event focused on business marketing for minority manufacturers, features Blueprint ... Read more

The theme of Baltimore’s 2019 Minority Enterprise Development (MED) / Supplier Diversity and Inclusion (SDI) Week is Inform, Instruct, Inspire.  Baltimore MED/SDI Week was created to raise awareness about the critical role minority and women-owned businesses play in Baltimore. Read more. Read more

This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the Minority Business Development Agency. The only government agency with the primary mission of promoting growth and competitiveness of the United States' minority owned business. I encourage you to attend the 50th Anniversary Celebration during the National MEDWeek in Washington D.C. Read more. Read more

Mid-Atlantic Region MBDA Advanced Manufacturing Center - Baltimore Director N. Scott Phillip's column in this issue introduces a collaborative concept for developing minority manufacturing in the Baltimore Metropolitan Area. Read more Read more

WASHINGTON, June 20, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- This week, National Director of the Minority Business Development Agency, Henry Childs and Tom Gilman, Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Secretary of Administration for the U.S. Department of Commerce brought together local businesses and government leaders in Detroit, Michigan for the Detroit Opportunity Zone Summit. Read more…. Read more

View Maryland small business profile published by the US Small Business Administration's Office of Advocacy. Read more

Our June issue features MBDA's federal training conference, Winning the Future...the Mid-Atlantic Region AMC's CEO Advisory Roundtable…Center clients Baked In Baltimore, City Wide Youth Development, and Fiberelectronics…the 4th Annual Manufacturers Summit in Atlanta…more. Click here to read more. Read more

We're keeping busy...with Open Works…Dorrance H. Hamilton Center for Culinary Enterprises…EMAGE Center…Grand Night at the BMI with RMI and MPT, CEO Advisory Roundtable…Federal DOE Small Business Forum…US SBA Exporting Financing, Federal 29th Annual Government Procurement  Conference…Baltimore City Port Covington Mentor-Protégé Program…Danae. Learn more. Read more. Click Here Read more

"Earlier this fiscal year, MBDA, an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, awarded nearly $1 million to promote minority women entrepreneurs as engines of economic growth in their communities. Read more. Read more

This issue highlights 2018 Manufacturing Day events around the Mid-Atlantic Region. Plus link to events nationwide! Read more