Greetings from Florida’s MEDWeek Coordinator Dear Clients, Community Partners and Guests: On behalf of the U.S. Department of Commerce, Minority Business Development Agency, our MBDA Export Center, and my awesome “Miami Dream Team” at M. Gill & Associates, it is my pleasure to welcome you to Florida’s 38th Annual Minority Enterprise Development Week (MEDWeek) Business Conference. Thank you for sharing our first Virtual MEDWeek with us. The global coronavirus pandemic has created distress and interruptions in our lives. The current crisis has changed, and continues to change the business landscape as we know it. Therefore, we as small, minority and women businesses must reassess not only our short-term plans, but our longterm strategies as well. Indeed, this exercise is revealing new and important insights—because, as we know, resilience is invaluable in times of crisis--Hence, our first VIRTUAL MEDWeek—and registration is through the roof! A few months ago, our MBDA Export Center - Florida, operated by M. Gill & Associates, Inc., launched the MBDA COVID-19 Recovery Initiative and Business Center, with CARES Act funding from the MBDA, to provide relief to small and minority enterprises in Florida. We have expanded our statewide reach, and are helping hundreds of small and minority businesses in the inner cities and communities of Florida to rebound from this horrible COVID-19 pandemic. Our MBDA Export and CARES Act Centers continue to provide technical assistance and business coaching services to help in the recovery of our affected businesses, so they may generate increased financing, contracting, and greater access to domestic and global markets—and our clients are engaging fully in the exporting experience by exposing Florida’s products and services to the world. The U.S. Department of Commerce – MBDA can proudly celebrate more than a 3:1 return on its investment from the MBDA programs that M. Gill & Associates operates in Florida. 8 | Florida’s 38th Annual Minority Enterprise Development Week MEDWEEK2020
Florida's 38th Annual Minority Enterprise Development Week - MEDWeek 2020 Program
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