The 8(a) Business Development Program is a business assistance program for small disadvantaged businesses. The 8(a) Program offers a broad scope of assistance to firms that are owned and controlled at least 51% by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals.
Read more »Minority Owned Business Resources
Contracting Support: SBA’s Small Disadvantaged Business Registry
You do not have to submit an application to SBA for SDB status. To self-represent as an SDB, register your business in the System for Award Management. However, you and your firm must still understand the SBA eligibility criteria for SDBs.
Read more »Federal Government Designations – Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB)
The Women-Owned Small Business Program is administered by the Small Business Administration. The Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) Federal Contract program authorizes contracting officers to set aside certain federal contracts for eligible Women-owned small businesses (WOSBs) or Economically disadvantaged women-owned small businesses (EDWOSBs).
Read more »Frequently Asked Questions When Seeking Training and Business Assistance
The following list of resources to help you take advantage of the several free counseling and training programs that are available to assist you in starting and growing your business. From low cost business training and free mentoring, selling to government, finding access to capital and expanding your business internationally, these partners can help get
Read more »Governor’s Office of Diversity Business
The Governor’s Office of Diversity Business Enterprise (Go-DBE) encourages Minority Owned, Woman Owned, Service-Disabled Veteran Owned and Small Business Enterprise firms interested in the state of Tennessee procurement opportunities to register for certification with the Governor’s Office of Diversity Business Enterprise. Learn more about the Governor’s Office of Diversity Business, click here.
Read more »Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone)
The HUBZone program provides contracting assistance to companies located in historically underutilized businesses zones as prescribed by the SBA. The primary purpose of the program is to encourage economic development and increase employment in these distressed urban and rural areas.
Read more »Metro Nashville Office of Women & Minority Enterprise
The Procurement Division serves as the Central Contracting Office for the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County. Established by the City Charter, this Division serves approximately 51 departments, agencies, commissions and boards.
Read more »Strength In Numbers: Partnerships, Being Bold and Women In Business
The Current State Of Women And Minority Business Owners Women in business continue to make gains year after year. As of 2017, women owned more than 11.6 million firms nationwide and generated $1.7 trillion in sales. That’s more than a 50 percent increase since 2007! The gains extend to minority entrepreneurs and women of color,
Read more »Tennessee Department of Transportation – Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Application
Application to become a certified DBE contractor for the TN Department of Transportation.
Read more »Tennessee Minority Supplier Development Council
The TMSDC works to build business partnerships between minority businesses (suppliers) and major corporations (purchasers). We are affiliated with the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) which has a network of more than 15,000 certified minority businesses, 3,500 major corporations, and 37 regional councils nationwide.
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Ignite: Sustainability and Resiliency for your BusinessFri Apr 3 2020, 03:00pm CDT - 04:00pm CDT
Roadmap to ResiliencyWed Apr 8 2020, 11:00am CDT - 01:00pm CDT
Ignite: Sustainability and Resiliency for your Business
Roadmap to ResiliencyTrigger’s Marketing Triangle: A Model For Putting Your Best Foot Forward Online (Guest Post)
The Trigger team presented this concept as part of Pathway WBC’s first Marketing Bootcamp Feb 11, 2020, and it was so well received we invited them to share it on our blogs. The following post originally appeared on the Trigger blog. We are running it here with permission. Shop, Search, Social: the three points
Be Bold: First Year Highlights + Second Year Lineup
Year 1 Highlights Take a listen to the Nashville Entrepreneur Center‘s Navigate Podcast, Navigate 009: Be Bold w/ Pathway Women’s Business Center to hear highlights from the first annual Be Bold last year, in 2019. Brynn Plummer and Clark Buckner, hosts of the podcast, interviewed several of the inspirational leaders, businesswomen and innovators who headlined
Be Bold 2020: The Women Who are Bold for Equality
Now in its 2nd year, Pathway WBC’s Be Bold is an annual event celebrating women’s achievements in business on International Women’s Day, Friday, March 6th. Women and men from across Middle Tennessee are invited to attend this event, which seeks to raise awareness that an equal world is an enabled world. Held at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center