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Minority Business Development Agency

The program provides business counseling and management assistance to minority owned business enterprises. It operates by providing grants to a national network of Minority Business Development Centers, Native American Business Development Centers, and Business Resource Centers.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • The program has developed appropriate annual and long-term measures that focus on the direct impact of its assistance on business clients. However, more research and evaluation needs to be conducted on the long-term impact of MBDA assistance.
  • The program has strong management. It awards grants on a competitive process, and provides sufficient oversight of grant activities, including tracking of progress towards meeting performance goals.
  • While MBDA is focused on minority small businesses, there many other sources of business assistance and support at the Federal, state, and local level. At the Federal level, the Small Business Administration similar assistance through its entrepreneurial development programs.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Investigating the feasibility of additional long term measures, including on survival rate of MBDA-assisted small businesses
  • Seeking additional efficiencies to reduce the cost per client assisted.
  • Exploring the feasibility of contracting with an independent organization to conduct an evaluation on the long-term impacts MBDA's assistance has on minority businesses.

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