Landrieu to Hold Hearing to Explore Minority Access to Capital and Contracting Opportunities

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 28, 2011
Contact:   Richard Carbo, (202) 224-3655

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Landrieu to Hold Hearing to Explore Minority Access to Capital and Contracting Opportunities

WASHINGTON – United States Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., Chair of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, will hold a hearing Thursday, March 3, 2011 entitled “Closing the Gap: Exploring Minority Access to Capital and Contracting Opportunities.”  This hearing will highlight challenges facing minority owned businesses trying to get venture and other forms of capital funding, and the role entrepreneurial training can play in helping these firms survive and flourish.  In addition to minority access to capital, the hearing will focus on the important role that government contracting can play in enabling small businesses to grow and expand.  Finally, the hearing will highlight the wealth disparities in this country and ways the Committee and the Small Business Administration (SBA) can work to close these gaps and tighten these disparities through targeted business education and training.

Who:                     U.S. Senate Small Business Committee Chair Mary Landrieu, D-La. Small Business Committee Members

What:                   Hearing entitled, “Closing the Gap: Exploring Minority Access to Capital and Contracting Opportunities”

When:                   Thursday, March 3, 2011 - 10:00 a.m. EST

Where:                 Senate Russell Office Building - Room 428A, Washington, D.C. 20510

 

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