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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday
February 15, 2007
-- MBRT invites National
Trade Association Leaders
to develop a national
strategy on legislative
issues.
Baltimore,
MD. - In connection
with 3rd Annual Black
CEO Summit at the Baltimore
Convention Center, Minority
Business RoundTable (MBRT)
hosted over 100 advocates
representing African American,
Asian American, Hispanic
American, Native American
and Women - owned businesses
in a dialogue to develop
a national strategy on
issues affecting their
businesses.
"Our
message is that we are
all working together to
build partnerships that
create economic opportunity
for all Americans.
We seek to forge a better
working environment and
common sense approach
to provide solutions to
issues and challenges
facing minority business
owners and enact policies
and legislation to spur
our economic growth,"
said Roger A. Campos President
& CEO MBRT.
"Small
and minority trade groups
can best advance their
efforts under a coalition
whose mission is to communicate,
educate and offer policy
recommendations,"
said Mr. Campos. The goals
of the forum were to gather
and exchange legislative
agendas that impact minority
business. MBRT urged
all the leaders of minority
advocacy and trade associations
to join these efforts
and support each other
on common legislative
issues.
Among
the top issues discussed
were:
- Passing
the Reauthorization
of Small Business Administration
legislation
- Raising
the percent of federal
contracts awarded to
small and minority businesses
from 23% to 30%
- Provide
adequate funding to
the SBA for enforcement
of regulations designed
to protect small and
minority businesses
when competing for federal
contract
- Rollback
contract bundling that
negatively affects small
and minority businesses
- Modernize
the SBA 8(a) program
- Expand
nationwide the Commercial
Non-Discrimination Act
recently enacted in
the State of Maryland.
- MBRT
intends to compile a
list of the top minority
business issues and
distribute them to all
minority trade associations,
and forward recommendations
to Members of Congress
and the Administration.
About
the Minority Business
RoundTable:
The
Minority Business RoundTable
is a membership organization
for CEOs of the nation's
leading African-American,
Asian-American, Hispanic-American,
Native-American and other
minority-owned businesses.
Its members analyze and
help formulate effective
public policies that impact
minority-owned business.
MBRT firms earned gross
sales from $53 million
to more than $5 billion
per company, and these
firms each employ between
80 and 4,000 people.
The Minority Business
RoundTable is proud to
have Aerotek, Inc., one
of the nation's leading
provider of personnel
services in the U.S.,
the Business Roundtable,
an association of chief
executive officers of
the country's leading
corporations, the Kauffman
Foundation, U.S. Department
of Energy, the U.S. Small
Business Administration,
the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security and
other federal agencies
as strategic partners.
For more information on
the Minority Business
RoundTable, please visit
www.mbrt.net.
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NEWS RELEASE
Minority Business Roundtable
1629 K Street, N.W.
Suite 300
Washington, D.C. 20036
Contact: Roger A Campos
Minority Business Roundtable
202-289-8881
rogercampos@mbrt.net
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