Impacting Broadway: How Two Black Entrepreneurs Teamed Up to Make a Difference
Multicultural marketing veterans Donna Walker-Kuhne and Cherine E. Anderson have been impacting theater audiences globally for nearly 30 years.
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Millennial ‘World Deeds’ Becoming a Way of Life
Small Business owner and millennial, Eric Whitaker talks his clothing company World Deeds and how purchasing their T-shirts will give back.
Fashion Designer Talks Juggling a Successful Small Business and Working Full-time Job
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Dr. Ali Yasin Teaches How to Think Like the Wealthy
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Tracking Minority Contracting
All told, the agencies allocated nearly $700 million in providing new contracts to minority and women firms in 2011 out of a total of about $3.8 billion spent with all contractors. The FDIC by far invested the most at $416.5 million, representing 29.8% of the $1.4 billion total contracts awarded. The U.S. Department of the Treasury spent $50 million with minority-owned businesses, 20% of total contracts with more than half awarded to black-owned firms and $26 million with women-owned firms, in fiscal year 2011. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency dispensed more than a combined $66 million to both groups, or 38.4% of OCC’s total spend.