MBDA Native American Business Enterprise Entrepreneurship Program

Objective

MBDA's American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Project provides support for the American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian communities (AIANNH) and has been one focus area of MBDA’s overall support for minority business development since the Agency’s inception. Although AIANNH businesses experience a range of common needs and problems that impede growth, MBDA has identified the following three Strategic Initiatives to support Tribal and native business growth: 1. AIANNH Strategic Initiatives (Applicants must select one or more of the following initiatives to address in the application.) a) Innovation and Entrepreneurship (e.g., business training, access to capital, incubators, accelerators, Federal program coaching); b) Strategic Planning (e.g., fostering, developing and/or implementing entrepreneurial and economic development); and c) Transformative Projects (e.g., support for MBEs involved in infrastructure focused public-private partnerships, and broadband).

Who Can Apply

• Federally Recognized Indian/Native American/Alaska Native Tribal Government
• Indian/Native American/Alaska Native Tribal Government (Other than Federally Recognized)
• Municipality or Township government (inclusive of cities, towns, boroughs (except in Alaska), and villages)
• County Government (inclusive of boroughs in Alaska, parishes and other governmental entities with geographic regional control and authority)
• Local
• State
• Tribal
• Nonprofit Organization
• For-Profit Organization
• Other

Eligible applicants include: Indian Tribal governments, Tribal entities, Alaska Native Corporations, Native Hawaiian entities, for-profit entities (including but not limited to sole-proprietorships, partnerships, limited liability companies, and corporations), non-profit organizations, institutions of higher education, commercial organizations, state and local government entities, and quasi-government entities.

Who Benefits

• Specific Restrictions Determined at NOFO Level

MBE Service Recipients - Organizations that are owned or controlled by the following persons or groups of persons are the organizations that are considered MBEs for the purpose of this BAA AIANNH initiative and for the purpose of pilot or demonstration projects designed to overcome their challenges: Native Americans (Including American Indians), Alaska Natives (including Alaska Native Corporations and Tribal entities), Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islander Americans, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Hasidic Jews, and Asian Indians.

Assistance Types

• Grant

Program Contact

lpurnell@mbda.gov
2027386362