Author: Holly Uverity, Microsoft® Office® Specialist — Outlook® , Office Organizers You may be a work from home pro or this may be new for you but regardless, you are undoubtedly impacted in some way by COVID-19. Your clients may cancel or your company work may halt so I invite you to look at this as…
Business and community leaders learned today how they can help move forward 500 miles of travel improvements in the $7.5 billion METRONext Moving Forward Plan. METRONext’s Business Now event attracted a wide range of vendors. Board members and staff provided an overview of future projects and explained how to do business with the Authority. “With your…
In 2017, the world used 562 quadrillion BTUs of energy in the form of oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear and renewables. But most of us don’t understand how this statistic is reflected in what we do each day. That staggering number – 562,000,000,000,000,000 – represents the countless decisions made by the individuals, companies and communities…
Greater Houston Partnership 2020 Board Chair Bobby Tudor outlined how the organization will work to ensure Houston plays a key role in the global energy transition at the Partnership’s annual meeting on January 22. Maintaining Houston’s place as the Energy Capital of the World requires that the region’s business and civic leaders address the dual…
The City of Dallas Office of Economic Development has won Business Facilities’ 2019 Deal of the Year Bronze Award for Uber Technologies’ U.S. Administrative Hub. Uber’s new hub, based at The Epic in Dallas’ Deep Ellum neighborhood, will create 3,000 new jobs and more than $75 million in capital investment. Uber will provide a new…
The rapid development and increasing population of Austin have created a polarity within the city. While some are eager to accept changes to the urban fabric, many are hesitant about what growth may bring: traffic, overcrowding, perhaps gross and thoughtless real estate development? Regardless, the city is expanding at an unprecedented rate and expected to…
When Rice & Gardner Consultants Inc. was founded in 2005, it began as an opportunity for Jim Rice and Kevin Gardner to merge a set of complementary services: program management and building commissioning. However, more importantly, the company’s inception was based on a vision: to truly serve their clients and the communities in which they…
OFFICE OF BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY The Office of Business Opportunity is committed to cultivating a competitive and diverse economic environment in the City of Houston by promoting the success of small businesses and developing Houston’s workforce, with special emphasis on historically underutilized businesses and disenfranchised individuals.
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HMSDC is a vital link between major corporations and minority business enterprises (MBEs). Each year, member corporations have reported billions of dollars spent with Council-certified Minority Business Enterprises. Serving the Houston region, the Council is one of the 23 regional affiliates of the National Minority Supplier Development Council, Inc. (NMSDC). The Houston Minority Supplier Development…
Creating and Sustaining a Diverse Business Environment Dallas Fort Worth International Airport creates and sustains a business environment that enables disadvantaged, small, minority and women-owned business enterprises (D/SM/WBEs) to compete equitably for business opportunities and achieve economic success, contributing to DFW’s overall mission of expanding economic benefits. www.dfwairport.com/bdd/
OUR MISSION We help welders become their best. Industrial Welding Academy (IWA) is dedicated to teaching students the trade of welding through a uniquely designed curriculum that will allow graduates to achieve entry level positions within the many fields of skilled trades that utilize the learned techniques of welding. We are dedicated to the philosophy…
The National Association of Minority Contractors (NAMC) is the oldest minority construction trade association in the United States with an annual project capacity of over one billion dollars nationally. The general purpose of NAMC-DFW is to initiate, encourage, and assist in the formation of an educational institute for construction contractors, their staff and their craftsmen….
OPPORTUNITY CREATION Provide conditions for growth and development through training, communication, and resource connections. BUILDING CAPACITY Develop strategic partnerships through intentional, coordinated, and mission-driven efforts aimed at strengthening the management and operations of S/M/WBE businesses to improve their performance and economic impact. DIVERSITY COMPLIANCE Advocate for the importance of diversity and inclusion in the awarding…
Real estate development in Houston throughout its history has been mostly unremarkable, the minimum product of pro formas and adherence to the city’s slipshod patchwork of building, site plan, traffic, and parking ordinances. The only notable interruption in the pattern of averages was during the go-go years of the 1970s and 1980s when, according to…
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The Texas A&M University System is committed to providing equal access and opportunity that encourages the development and participation of minority, woman and service disabled veteran businesses in the State of Texas. The leadership of the A&M System, its universities, agencies and health science center are dedicated to providing equal opportunity. Each System member is…
