Join the region’s top corporations and government agencies….start your membership application today and reap the benefits by joining! Corporate partners receive:
- A password – protected online directory of certified minority vendors listed by industry.
- Over 20 Networking forums throughout the Carolinas — to include the annual Business Opportunity Conference— that enable buyers to cultivate business relationships with MBEs
- Opportunities for sharing best practices, trends, and innovative approaches that help increase the number of business partnerships with MBEs.
- Unique training offerings to help develop and refine minority supplier programs.
- Mentoring opportunities with a corporate peer.
- Tools and resources that support supplier-diversity program objectives.
- Buyer/supplier forums that match corporate buyers and MBEs from the same industries to explore business opportunities
- Access to a larger pool of qualified suppliers
- Resources to help you achieve a supplier base that more closely reflects your customer demographics
- Increased opportunity for greater savings and higher quality goods and services due to increased competition
- Increased ROI from minority business development and corporate economic development efforts in the community where you do business
- Opportunity to enhance your ethnic market sales initiatives
- Assistance in developing or improving your company’s supplier diversity programs
- Added recognition by stakeholders and the local community of your strong corporate citizenship
- Meeting the demands of your customers, and/or government compliance requirements
- Resources to make doing business with MBEs easy and simple
