MBDA Native American Business Enterprise Entrepreneurship Program

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).