Ascend, a national program supported by JPMorgan Chase, links business schools, business service-providing organizations, and Community Development Financial Institutions to create local support ecosystems for neighborhood-based, inner-city, and minority-owned businesses in Atlanta, the San Francisco Bay Area, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. and now within Ohio cities!

The OMSDC Connections Newsletter is your source for important Supplier Diversity news and information. Sent directly to your inbox bi-weekly, it features business opportunities, events and development information for MBEs and Corporate Supply Chain professionals.

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Opportunities For MBEs

A regularly-updating posting of business advancement opportunities for minority businesses in Ohio.

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Certification FAQs and Information Related To COVID-19 Pandemic

During the current health crisis, there may be concerns as to how the certification and recertification processes will be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. To keep MBEs well-informed, OMSDC has developed answers to the most Frequently Asked Questions.

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Join us for our 2021 NMSDC Conference + Business Opportunity Exchange from October 25 to 28, 2021!

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ABOUT US

The Ohio Minority Supplier Development Council (OMSDC) is one of 23 affiliates of the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC), a nonprofit corporate membership organization that advances business opportunities for its certified Asian, Black, Hispanic and Native American business enterprises and connects them to its corporate members. One of the country’s leading corporate membership organizations, NMSDC was chartered in 1972 to provide increased procurement and business opportunities for minority businesses of all sizes.

Since 1972, the OMSDC has worked diligently to grow value-driven partnerships between our certified MBEs and our Corporate Members. Our focus is to assist the development and maintenance of effective corporate supplier diversity programs.