{"id":2600,"date":"2019-09-18T17:46:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T17:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ushaitianchamber.org\/?p=2600"},"modified":"2019-10-21T17:33:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T17:33:02","slug":"free-workshop-getting-certified-as-a-minority-business-enterprise-mbe-wbe-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ushaitianchamber.org\/?p=2600","title":{"rendered":"Free Workshop: Getting Certified as a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE), WBE and more.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Connecting Your Business with the State of Massachusetts and the City of Boston<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Come meet representatives from the Commonwealth\u2019s Operational Service Division (OSD) and the Mayor&#8217;s Office of Economic Development to learn more about how you can officially certify your business as a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE), Women Business Enterprise (WBE), Veteran Business Enterprise (VBE) or Portuguese Business Enterprise (PBE).<\/p>\n<p>Designed for businesses who are new to state procurement and interested in learning how to do business with the Commonwealth, this workshop includes a summary of the State&#8217;s goods and services procurement process; an overview of OSD programs and services, including Supplier Diversity Certification, the Supplier Diversity Program (SDP), and Small Business Purchasing Program (SBPP); and live demonstration of where to find bidding opportunities in COMMBUYS, the state\u2019s e-procurement market center.<\/p>\n<p>Getting certified as a MBE, WBE, VBE or PBE gives you access to opportunities to sell to local government.<\/p>\n<p>WORKSHOP IS SOLD OUT<\/p>\n<p>This workshop is officially sold out!! If you are still interested in joining us, please feel free to click on the link below to add your name to the waiting list.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/haitianamericanbusinessexpo.com\/biz\/free-workshop-getting-certified-as-a-minority-business-enterprise-mbe-wbe-and-more\/?mc_cid=44eb978fb5&#038;mc_eid=ee28116605<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by U.S. Haitian Chamber of Commerce, Inc. \/ Haitian American Business Expo, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connecting Your Business with the State of Massachusetts and the City of Boston Come meet representatives from the Commonwealth\u2019s Operational Service Division (OSD) and the Mayor&#8217;s Office of Economic Development to learn more about how you can officially certify your business as a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE), Women Business Enterprise (WBE), Veteran Business Enterprise (VBE)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ushaitianchamber.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ushaitianchamber.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ushaitianchamber.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ushaitianchamber.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ushaitianchamber.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2600"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ushaitianchamber.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2659,"href":"https:\/\/www.ushaitianchamber.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600\/revisions\/2659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ushaitianchamber.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ushaitianchamber.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ushaitianchamber.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ushaitianchamber.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}