To help support our members with connections, opportunities, and business resources by incorporating the following in the mission, vision and value of the Chamber. Growing Business. Building Community.

• Increase visibility of minority owned businesses and making business resource tools easily available
• Provide opportunities to discuss colorful conversations of diverse business challenges faced by minority business professionals
• Increase diversity of Chamber membership
• Leverage members’ combined experience and knowledge to advance programs and practices throughout the business community
• Build a more economically and socially inclusive organizations.
• Become a forum to discuss new diversity and inclusion ideas and initiatives.

How to Set Up a Minority-Owned Business

·  Step 1: Choose your business idea.

·  Step 2: Write your business plan.

·  Step 3: Register your business.

·  Step 4: Get certified as a minority-owned business.

·  Step 5: Find financing.

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Additional Business Resources

• ASCENT- Women Entrepreneurs
• Black Founders  
• CODE2040 
• National Hispanic Business Group 
• National Minority Supplier Development Council 
• NC Chapter 
• SCORE
• The Asian Business Association
• The National Minority Business Council
• The National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC)
• U.S. Small Business Administration
• United States Black Chambers (USBC) 
• United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC)
• United States Minority Chamber of Commerce
• United States Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce (USPAACC) 

Publications for Minority-Owned Businesses

• Minority Business Entrepreneur Magazine has been published for 30 years and contains a diverse range of minority voices and relevant information for minority-owned businesses.
• Black Enterprise Small Business  features help in all areas of business & best practices to individual stories of black small business owners.
• Latin Business Today contains a multitude of resources for Hispanic entrepreneurs—information about starting a business, growing it, and innovating in a global economy. The publication offers market trends, best practices, and everyday challenges.
• The Asian Entrepreneur boasts the largest reserve of interviews with Asian entrepreneurs. It offers a global roundup of Asian business leaders, from the U.S. and Asia, and delves into consumer and competitive data as well as social media.