Why get MBE certified
Achieving Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) certification through the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) qualifies your company to meet the diversity requirements for the more than 1,450 corporate members of the NMSDC whose roster includes many of America’s largest and best-known public and privately-owned global companies.
By becoming MBE certified, your company can:
- Gain access to new sales opportunities
- Create a new point of market differentiation
- Improve contract expansion
- Enhance your corporate image/brand/culture
- Attract and retain employees
- Appeal to shifting demographics
- Build consumer loyalty and market share
- And more
We streamline the process
Obtaining MBE certification can be challenging. Diversity Capital has a proven process in place to handle all the details on your behalf. We’ll guide you through the entire process, help with preparation of required documentation, and maintain total security of sensitive ownership information. As a result, you can get certified as quickly as possible with the least effort on your part.
And maximize the rewards
Getting you certified is just step one. No less important, we provide you with a detailed marketing playbook on the specific steps your company can take to best capitalize on MBE certification. It will show you how to strategically navigate the MBE ecosystem, secure incremental revenue opportunities, and more.
We can also provide whatever implementation support you need to increase speed to market, such as:
- Prepare brand messaging strategy integrating/leveraging MBE certification
- Creation of an account-based outreach campaign to engage senior executives
- Assist in setting up the technology infrastructure for outbound MBE marketing
Most companies are able to achieve very quick ROI as the modest investment required is usually recouped in one or two sales opportunities that directly result from becoming MBE certified.
“Developing a diverse workforce and supply chain fosters innovation, creates economic opportunities, provides better access to talent and improves business performance.”
Larry Merlo | President and CEO | CVS Health
WHAT YOU GET AS AN NMSDC CERTIFIED MBE
MBE certification qualifies your company to meet corporate supplier diversity program objectives for America’s top public and privately owned companies, plus universities, hospitals and other buying institutions. You get:
Access to NMSDC corporate members, including the “Billion Dollar Roundtable”
Access to top corporate purchasing agents
Included in and access to the NMSDC supplier database
Invited to conferences and networking events
Offered business leads and alerts for procurement opportunities from corporate members
Representing $77 billion aggregate spend in 2017, the Billion Dollar Roundtable is made up of 27 of the largest NMSDC members, who have at least $1 billion of spend with certified diverse suppliers, primarily minority- or woman-owned.