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Posted on 12/17/2024 4:17:16 PM PST by TigerClaws
Pittsburgh, PA – Today, Lt. Gov. Austin Davis and Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) Secretary Rick Siger announced the Historically Disadvantaged Business Assistance Program is open and accepting funding applications from established nonprofits, economic development organizations, and educational institutions to create Business Assistance Service Centers across Pennsylvania to support and empower our small, diverse businesses. Applications will be accepted through January 22, 2025.
Since day one, Governor Josh Shapiro and his Administration have advocated to open new doors of opportunity for minority-owned businesses across the Commonwealth. The Governor’s bipartisan 2024-25 budget includes funding for the Historically Disadvantaged Business Assistance Program to support a variety of historically disadvantaged businesses, including minority-owned businesses, all across the Commonwealth.
“I’ve advocated for this funding because when small businesses succeed, they create opportunity for Pennsylvanians all across the Commonwealth,” said Governor Josh Shapiro. “My Administration and I are committed to breaking down barriers to progress and helping historically disadvantaged business owners and entrepreneurs build generational wealth. Pennsylvania is open for business and we’re making sure small, diverse businesses have the support they need to achieve their dreams and grow our economy.”
The Business Assistance Service Centers that will be created through the Historically Disadvantaged Business Assistance Program will provide technical assistance and business support services to increase access to capital, promote economic empowerment, and boost the number of diverse small businesses.
“When we invest in minority communities and help historically disadvantaged businesses in those neighborhoods, we’re not just supporting job creation — we’re building ladders of opportunity,” said Lt. Gov. Austin Davis. “The Shapiro-Davis Administration will never leave any community behind.”
The Historically Disadvantaged Business Assistance Program will use a competitive application process to determine funding awards to at least one eligible organization in each region of the Commonwealth. Educational institutions, community-based nonprofit organizations, and nonprofit economic development organizations with established experience and expertise in business and economic development are eligible to apply for funding.
“The Shapiro-Davis Administration is committed to making sure that every entrepreneur and small business across our Commonwealth has the same opportunities for success,” said Secretary Rick Siger. “The Commonwealth must support our small, minority-owned businesses because when they succeed, our communities thrive and Pennsylvania’s economy grows.”
“When we created the Historically Disadvantaged Business Program four years ago, we believed that our investments should be a reflection of our priorities,” said Senator Vincent Hughes, Senate Democratic Appropriations Chair. “When we give someone the support or tools needed to open a barber shop or take over a vacant store front in the neighborhood, it matters to everyone that small business is serving. Since its inception the Historically Disadvantaged Business Program has gotten real resources to businesses who are often neglected by more traditional programs. I’m glad this support for these businesses will continue.”
Eligible organizations will be able to apply for additional Historically Disadvantaged Business Assistance Program funding in Spring 2025 to create local micro grant programs to assist historically disadvantaged businesses further with start-up and other costs, or to grow or expand their businesses.
Application guidelines are available online.
The 2024-25 bipartisan budget delivers on the Shapiro-Davis Administration’s key priorities to make Pennsylvania more competitive economically. In addition to the $20 million for the Historically Disadvantaged Business Assistance Program, it also includes:
$500 million for site development, including $400 million for the PA SITES (Pennsylvania Strategic Investments to Enhance Sites) program $20 million for the Main Street Matters program to support small businesses and commercial corridors that are the backbone of communities across our Commonwealth $15 million for tourism marketing to boost our economy, attract more visitors, and support good-paying jobs — building on the Governor’s launch of The Great American Getaway brand to encourage tens of millions within a few hours’ drive to visit Pennsylvania
Read more about Pennsylvania’s first Economic Development Strategy in two decades and how Governor Shapiro’s budget will create economic opportunity for all Pennsylvanians.
Press conference from today - taking a victory lap:
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1869167704718053408
More quotas and affirmative action and persecution of white people.
Someone needs to sue
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It was the late 1960s when I was told for the first time that my race meant I couldn’t apply for the job, and that was the Texas unemployment office (or whoever ran it) so my whole life has been one ever since of some jobs and programs forbidden to me because of race.
In San Diego it was my sex that kept me from a city job, it was in the job description.
Same here.
Impacts promotions as well.
For fifty years, caucasians were the only people it was legal to discriminate against, and discrimination against them was required by law.
“Affirmative action” has now been replaced with “Diversity/Equity/Inclusion.”
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Same land grant university: took civil service exams the same year for computer operator, aced the tests, was beaten out because I was a white male -- the bonus scores for being black or a woman (I was a white guy) knocked me out of the running.
2024, I told recruiters and job placement counselors I would not consider a job with government, nor a contract. Glad I can afford to tell them to kick rocks.
For the Left, virtue is defined as helping the “oppressed” and fighting the “oppressors”.
Their power comes from being able to control who gets defined as “oppressed”.
To the Left, all unequal results stem from deliberate oppression. It is the ultimate evil to even imply that some inequality may come from the inadequacies of the “oppressed”.
Two generations of official race discrimination, and shortly after JFK signed the first affirmative action Executive order sex worked its way in, and of course about 120 million foreigners and their offspring were covered by the official racial preference laws and rules.
I can’t think of a single field, or industry, or area of American life that isn’t less competent than it was 60 years ago, we advance slower and more clumsily than we would have without this race and sex banning of the very population that made us great in America and in every competition against the world, it is as though we put lead boots on everyone in America to slow and hinder advancement, competency, and creativity.
Who’s the slave and who’s the master? I don’t want to hear about 200 years ago when this crap happens daily. Force the taxes, piss money away, and go to jail if you don’t want to support this crap.
“ historically disadvantaged business owners”
I don’t think he’s talking about the Irish, Poles, or Italians either.
Shapiro may be unstoppable in 2028 unless he causes a scandal.
Shapiro = Bag of shit.
Ellen Greenberg’s parents deserve better than the bag of shit Shapiro.
Can’t say it enough, Shapiro is a bag of shit.
You can’t fix the bell curve by throwing money at it.
Its been proven time and time again.
They all live in the “slave life” past; therefore they’ll never have a present life, nor a future opportunity at a better life.
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