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Winter 2016
Office of Supplier Diversity Development
The Catalyst MESSER CONSTRUCTION AND QUEST SAFETY
PRODUCTS RECEIVE HANDSHAKE AWARDS
At it’s 11th Annual Relationships to Partnerships Sessions, the Supplier Diversity Devel-
opment Coalition of Greater Lafayette presented Messer Construction with the Corporate
Handshake award and Quest Safety Products, LLC. with the Diverse Business Handshake
Award.
Jim Glasener, Senior Project Executive for Messer Construction accepted the Corporate
Handshake award. Messer Construction, in partnership with Powers & Sons Construction
Co., are currently constructing the Purdue Honors College and Residences. Messer is an
employee owned company with a strong commitment to economic inclusion.
The Diverse Business Handshake award was present to Sam Yadav, President of Quest
Safety Products, LLC. Quest is an Indianapolis-based diverse distribution partner for
pharmaceutical, food, utility and construction industries. Sam Yadav also shared valuable
insights with the event’s attendees during the plenary session.
The awards luncheon celebrated supplier diversity in Tippecanoe County and hosted
representatives from over 100 diverse businesses, business resources organizations and
large firms from central Indiana.
PURDUE BECOMES NEW HOME FOR
NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR DOCTORAL
STUDIES IN THE MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., - Purdue University will serve as the new home for a national
mathematics organization that strives to increase underrepresented minorities earning
doctoral degrees in mathematics and related fields.
The Purdue math department will house the National Alliance for Doctoral Studies in the
Mathematical Sciences beginning in March. This organization, currently based at the
University of Iowa, brings together hundreds of faculty members and students from nu
merous universities and colleges in a shared passion for increasing the number of doctor
al degrees in the mathematical sciences among groups that have been traditionally un
derrepresented in those fields.
CONTINUED ON PAGE 5—See NATIONAL MATH ALLIANCE
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
Build Your Future Indiana ......2
Purdue Supplier Diversity .......3
US Census SBO Results ...........4
IN Firm Expands w/MBDA....6
Supplier Diversity Institute .....6
SPECIAL POINTS OF INTEREST
Upcoming Business
Resources Events
MBE’s Importance in Gulf
Economic Growth
SBA Blog—Mentoring Builds
Diverse Workforce
Build Your Future Indiana
For more information visit :
http://indiana.byf.org/
BUILD YOUR FUTURE INDIANA
ENCOURAGES RESIDENTS TO LEARN ABOUT
CONSTRUCTION CAREERS
Construction companies will hire more than 61,000 workers in Indiana through 2017. Employers need boilermakers, glaziers, electricians, plumbers, carpenters and many other craft professionals. With several weeks of training, you can qualify for trade craft jobs and start earning great wages and benefits and gain the chance to prosper in a promising career.
Build Your Future Indiana is a unique collaboration of employers, state agencies and industry associations. Our goal is to encourage Indiana residents to learn about construction craft careers and training opportunities now emerging in our state, and to qualify for and get jobs in these high-demand occupations.
The Indiana Workforce Commission is committed to matching employers with qualified workers so their businesses grow and prosper, and to helping individuals achieve their career goals.
The goals of Build Your Future Indiana are :
Make career and technical education a priority in secondaryschools
Shift the public’s perceptionabout careers in the constructionindustry to reflect the wide rangeof professions available
Provide a path from ambition, totraining, to job placement as acraft professional
“Make career and technical education a priority in secondary schools.”
ABOUT THE SUPPLIER
DIVERSITY DEVELOP
MENT COALITION OF
GREATER LAFAYETTE
Mission Statement: The Greater
Lafayette Supplier Diversity Coalition
encourages diversity and creative
solutions that result in long term
partnerships between small diverse
businesses and larger members of
the Greater Lafayette business com-
munity
Vision Statement: The Greater Lafa-
yette Supplier Diversity Development
Coalition will enhance opportunities
for minority and women-owned firms
to conduct business with the Greater
Lafayette business community.
EXPLORE OPPORTUNITY @
L!F!YETTESDCO!LITION;ORG
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SUPPLIER DIVERSITY COALITION OF
GREATER LAFAYETTE UPDATE:
Coalition members congratulate Messer Construction Company and Quest
Safety Products, LLC. on being awarded the Corporate Handshake Award and
Diverse Business handshake Award, respectfully, at the 11th Annual
Relationships to Partnerships Sessions.
Coalition members encourage businesses and supporters to visit
LafayetteSDCoalition.org for upcoming opportunities and business
development events.
JanuarySupplierDiversity CoalitionofGreaterLafayettespeaker:
FINELINE PRINTING GROUP with Rafael Sanchez and Beth Coleman Valdettaro
FebruarySupplierDiversity CoalitionofGreaterLafayettespeakers:
ACORN DISTRIBUTERS with Bobby Delamater
TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION GROUP with Joe Ignatius
Interested in Presenting Your Business to the Supplier Diversity
Development Coalition of Greater Lafayette?
Contact Marta Foth at [email protected] to get details and learn requirements
necessary to present your diverse enterprise to the Supplier Diversity Develop
ment Coalition of Greater Lafayette.
Boilermaker Statue
SUPPLIER DIVERSITY @ PURDUE
Purdue OSDD and Turner Construction Host Supplier Diversity
Networking Event
On January 13th, Turner Construction and Purdue’s Office of Supplier Diversity
Development hosted a supplier diversity networking event to share information
with diverse firms concerning the Creighton Hall of Animal Science and the
Land O’ Lakes Center for Experiential Learning project. This project will con-
solidate the Department of Animal Sciences into a 124,150 GSF unified com
plex, fostering greater collaboration among faculty, staff and students in the
department and across the university and providing contemporary spaces for
teaching, research and Extension activities.
For further information on pre-qualifications and bid dates please contact
Tiffiny Summers at 317.829.7628 or [email protected].
2015 Disparity Study
Purdue University is participating in the 2015 State of Indiana Disparity Study.
The study includes analyses of the participation of minority- and women-owned
businesses in prime contracts and subcontracts that state institutions awarded
during the study period (July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2013). The final report
is expected to be released March 2016.
For information on the State of Indiana Disparity Study visit: www.in.gov/idoa/
mwbe/
Looking Ahead— Upcoming Business Development Events
~ Flex Lab Pre-Pre Bid with Pepper Construction and Davis & Associates
~ 10th Annual Construction Connection
Access Purdue Supplier Diversity at purdue.edu/supplierdiversity
OFFICE OF
SUPPLIER DIVERSITY
DEVELOPMENT—
ENGAGEMENTS
Pre-Pre Bid with TurnerConstruction—Creighton Hall ofAnimal Sciences andthe Land O’ LakesCenter for ExperientialLearning
Indiana Dept. of Admin.Division of SupplierDiversity in Partnershipwith Elite SDVOB Certify Your VeteranOwned Business Withthe State
Spring AdvocacyMeeting
Pre-Pre Bid with PepperConstruction, Davis &Assoc.— Flex Lab
10th Annual Construction Connection
ACCESS OPPORTUNITY
@ PURDUE
Procurement Services
Open Bid Opportunities:
www.purdue.edu/business/
procurement/audience/
suppliers
Energy & Construction
Bid Information:
www.purdue.edu/
physicalfacilities/energy-and
construction/construction/bid
reports/
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UPCOMING BUSINESS NUMBER OF MINORITY- AND WOMEN
OWNED FIRMS EACH INCREASE BY MORE
THAN 2 MILLION NATIONALLY
DEVELOPMENT EVENTS
Indiana Dept. of Administration
Division of Supplier Diversity in
Partnership with Elite SDVOB
Certify Your Veteran Owned
Business With the State
February 10, 2016
Indiana Government Center
South, 302 W. Washington Street
Indianapolis, IN
Mid-States Minority Supplier
Development Council
Ask a Lawyer Series
February 18, 2016
11 South Meridian Street
Indianapolis, IN
Indiana Subcontractors
Association
Construction Networking
Event of the Year
The Survey of Business Owners is a
sample survey that provides the only
comprehensive, regularly collected
source of information on selected
economic and demographic charac
teristics for businesses and business
owners by gender, ethnicity, race and
veteran status. Today’s release pro-
vides data at detailed geographic
(nation, state, metropolitan area,
county and economic place) and in
dustry levels (two-digit through six-
digit industry coding level). In Au
gust, preliminary data were published
for these groups at the national, state
and two-digit sector levels.
Nationally, today’s findings show the
number of minority-owned firms in
the U.S. rose from 5.8 million in 2007
to 8.0 million in 2012. This includes a
46.3 percent increase in the number
of Hispanic-owned firms over the
period, from 2.3 million to 3.3 mil
lion, and a 34.5 percent rise in the
number of black or African American
-owned firms, from 1.9 million to 2.6
million. Additionally, the number of
Asian-owned firms climbed from 1.5
million to 1.9 million, an increase of
23.8 percent. For added context, total
U.S. firms increased 2.0 percent dur
ing the same period, from 27.1 mil
lion in 2007 to 27.6 million in 2012.
The 9.9 million women-owned firms
in 2012 were up more than 2 million
from five years earlier when there
were 7.8 million women-owned busi
nesses, a 26.8 percent increase. As a
comparison, male-owned firms in
creased 6.8 percent from 13.9 million
to 14.8 million during the same peri
od.
Other highlights from the final 2012
Survey of Business Owners data:
Women
There were 9.9 million women-
owned firms nationally in 2012,
up from 7.8 million or 26.8 per
cent from 2007.
Nearly 90 percent (89.5 percent)
of women-owned firms were non
-employer firms (businesses with
no paid employees). This is high
er than the total proportion of
non-employer firms, which is
80.4 percent (22.2 million non-
employer firms).
Receipts for women-owned firms
rose 18.7 percent, from $1.2 tril
lion in 2007 to $1.4 trillion in
2012.
Minorities
There were 8.0 million minority-
owned firms nationally in 2012,
up from 5.8 million, or 38.1 per
cent, from 2007.
Receipts for minority-owned
firms climbed from $1.0 trillion
to $1.4 trillion over the 2007
2012 period (34.7 percent).
All but 908,800, or 11.4 percent,
minority-owned firms in 2012
were non-employers.
Source: United States Census Bu
reau—Press Release Number: CB15
209. For more information on the
2012 Survey of Business Owners visit:
http://www.census.gov/econ/sbo/
February 25, 2016
JW Marriott
10 South West Street
Indianapolis, IN
Indiana Small Business
Development Center
Marketing to the Federal
Government
March 8, 2016
Webinar presented by South
Central Indiana PTAC
National Association of
Educational Procurement
Supplier Diversity Institute
July 31, 2016
Embassy Suites
220 West 43rd St.
Kansas City, Missouri
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About The National Alliance for Doctoral Studies in the Mathematical Sciences
Our goal is simple: we want to be sure that every underrepresented or under-served American student with the talent and the ambition has the opportunity to earn a doctoral degree in a mathematical science.
Our commitment is to build a national community of students, faculty, and staff who will work together to transform our departments, colleges, and universities into institutions where all students are welcome. Our mentors come from a variety of schools all over the country. What they all have in common is a commitment to our Alliance Scholars
For more information visit: http://mathalliance.org/
NATIONAL MATH ALLIANCE
Continued from page 1.
Since its inception in 2001, the Alliance has grown to play a vital role nationally in diversifying graduate programs in mathematics and related fields. Over the past five years, Alliance-affiliated doctoral programs accounted for roughly one-third of all Ph.D.’s awarded in the mathematical sciences to students from un-derrepresented backgrounds. Beyond increasing the numbers, the Alliance also fosters the growth of a community of mathematical scientists that promotes a diverse workforce.
“It is especially fitting that we make this announcement during the week that we celebrate the contributions of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with a keynote speech by nationally recognized expert on science and math education, Freeman A. Hrawbowski III,” said Deba Dutta, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs and diversity. “We are proud of Purdue’s Mathematics De-partment as an outstanding center for mathematical education, scholarship and research, and we look forward to working with the Alliance to contribute to a more diverse national profile of PhD’s.”
"[W]e look forward to working with the Alliance to contribute to a more diverse national profile of PhD’s."
Purdue Mathematics professor David Goldberg will serve as the Alliance’s new executive director while fellow Purdue Mathematics faculty members Edray Goins and Rodrigo Bañuelos will take on the roles of associate director and program adviser, respectively. The trio has worked for decades at Purdue to help attract and mentor students from underrepresented groups.
“Purdue’s math department has a long-standing commitment to promoting diversity, with exceptional efforts on this front by former department heads Rodrigo Bañuelos and Leonard Lipshitz, among many others,” said current mathematics department head Greg Buzzard. “This evident commitment, along with greater participation in many Alliance activities, the enthusiastic support of Purdue’s provost and the deans of the College of Science and the Graduate School, and the strong new leadership team, led to Purdue as the clear choice for the next Alliance home.“
The Alliance was founded by Phil Kutzko at the University of Iowa and has grown to national visibility in a short time. With retirement approaching, Kutzko and the Alliance board solicited proposals to house the Alliance at another institution. Purdue Mathematics will be the Alliance’s home at least until 2020.
“Ensuring the continued success of the Alliance is a huge responsibility and we do not take it lightly,” said Bañuelos, a longtime champion for diversity in mathematics. “It represents an enormous opportunity for us - the mathematics department, the College of Science and the university as a whole - to play a national role in increasing diversity in mathematical sciences and related fields.”
“We look forward to building on the many successes of the Alliance and to deepening ties with the entire Alliance community,” Buzzard said.
Writer: Tim Brouk [email protected] Sources: David Goldberg, Greg Buzzard, Edray Goins, Rodrigo Banuelos, Phil Kutzko
INDIANAPOLIS
MANUFACTURER
EXPANDS WITH HELP OF
MINORITY BUSINESS
DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
Minority businesses are playing an integral part in keeping the ‘Made in America’ product strong as the U.S. manufacturing sector continues to rise. Minority-owned manufacturing firms employ 342,000 workers and have recently grown faster than their non-minority counterparts in three areas—number of firms, employees and gross receipts.
The Minority Business Development Agency’s (MBDA) increased focus on manufacturers over the past few years is producing results. Just in the last three years, MBDA has facilitat-ed more than $3.3 billion in contracts for minority-owned manufacturing firms, making manufacturing one of the top industries for MBDA clients.
One example of this success is Hanzo Logistics, LLC in Indianapolis, Indiana. Hanzo Logistics operates a state-of-the-art warehouse and provides fulfillment management, distribution, and transportation ser-vices. Nate Ghaim, President and CEO of Hanzo Logistics, attributes the success of the manufacturing company to the collaboration with the MBDA Indianapolis Business Center.
For example, through the help from MBDA Business Center in Indianap-olis, Hanzo Logistics has been able to expand their operations. Last year, James Knight, director of the Indianapolis MBDA Business Center, facilitated a $600,000 operating line of credit as well as a $200,000 equipment line of credit to grow the business. In June 2015, Knight also facilitated a $12.5 million capital investment from Cabot Investment Group. These investments resulted in a 25% increase in revenue and enabled Hanzo to retain 69 employ-ees and hire an additional 55 new workers.
By working with the MBDA business center in Indianapolis, Hanzo Logis-tics has been able to access strate-gic business consulting and has been helped in finding secure financ-ing that allowed the company to grow in size and scale. Today, Hanzo is one of the most well-managed and tech savvy companies in Indianapolis.
MBDA is very proud of the tremen-dous achievements of minority-owned manufacturing businesses like Hanzo Logistics that help grow the national economy
Source: http://www.mbda.gov/ pressroom/success-stories/ indianapolis-manufacturer-expands-help-mdba
U.S. SECRETARY OF COMMERCE PENNY
PRITZKER HIGHLIGHTS IMPORTANCE OF
MINORITY-OWNED BUSINESSES TO
REGIONAL ECONOMIC GROWTH AND
RESTORATION IN THE GULF COAST
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker and Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) Director Alejandra Y. Castillo hosted a roundtable with local minority business leaders in New Orleans to discuss the tremendous growth of minority-owned businesses and their impact on the local and national economy. The roundtable also addressed the challenges and opportunities of doing business in the Gulf Coast as the region continues to rebuild from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and the effects of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.
Last month, the Commerce Department shared the final results of the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2012 Survey of Business Owners (SBO), which found that our na-tion’s 8 million minority-owned firms are now the fastest-growing segment of our country’s business community, and contribute more than $ 1.4 trillion to our economy. In Louisiana, the 126,000 minority firms contribute more than $12 billion to the U.S. economy.
During the roundtable, Secretary Pritzker and Director Castillo heard directly from local minority business leaders about the challenges they face and how the MBDA can help firms compete, succeed, and grow. Some of the business leaders discussed the need to help new minority firms become sustainable once they initially get off the ground. Issues including access to capital, capacity building, and the opportunities presented by technology were also discussed.
“As the only federal agency focused on strengthening the economic contribu-tion of our nation’s minority-owned businesses, MBDA works each day to ensure that minority-owned businesses grow in size and scale through our 44 business centers across the nation,” said Director Castillo. “Minority businesses are a key part of the recovery and restoration in the Gulf Coast, and the New Orleans MBDA Center has greatly impacted local businesses and workers by opening doors for contracts and procurements, facilitating financial transactions, and helping create new jobs.”
In addition to impacting the national economy, local minority business leaders are also a critical component of ensuring the Gulf Coast comes back stronger and more vibrant than ever before. Chaired by Secretary Pritzker, the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council voted last month to adopt the final rule, which allocates funding between the five Gulf Coast States through the Spill Impact Component of the Resources and Ecosystems Sustainability, Tourist Opportunities, and Revived Economies of the Gulf Coast States Act (RESTORE Act). These funds will support investments in actions and projects to ensure the long-term environmental health and economic prosperity of the Gulf Coast region. The RESTORE Act provides greater opportunity for minority businesses in Louisiana to aid in the repair of the ecosystem and build a stronger economy.
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MENTORING: A PROVEN TOOL FOR BUILDING A MORE DYNAMIC AND DIVERSE WORKFORCE
Throughout my career, mentors changed my trajectory. Through them I met successful people who were willing to listen to my ideas— and give their advice on how to turn them into great opportunities.
Every year, my primary resolution has been to “give forward” what they gave to me, and to be a mentor. You might be pleased to know that January is National Mentoring Month—a great reminder to all of us to reach out to someone early in his or her career.
This month reminds us of presidents past, of Dr. Martin Luther King, of service to others and the lasting impact we all have a chance to make in our lifetimes. And while mentoring isn’t the only solution, it is one way to build a team of fund managers and portfolio companies in the alternative investment industry that is strong and robust because of its diversity.
Take a look at this evidence:
Diverse funds out performed non-diverse competitors. Small private equity funds managed by diverse and minority investment professionals in the middle market and U.S. emerging domestic market produced better returns than the U.S. Private Equity benchmarks and Buy-Out subset from 1998-2011 according to KPMG.
Diverse teams out-innovated their peers. Companies with diversity, including inherent and acquired diversity, were 70% likelier to report that the firm captured a new market, according to the Harvard Business Review. A team with a member who shares a client’s ethnicity was 152% likelier than another team to understand that client.
The fastest growing sectors are women- and minority-owned businesses. New census data show that the rate of growth for women-owned employer firms is three times that of men-owned employer firms and the rate of growth for total women-owned businesses is almost four times the rate of men-owned business. Similarly, between 2007-2012,
the number of minority-owned businesses increased by 2.2 million, whereas the number of non-minorityowned businesses declined by 1.1 million.
Funds led by women are more likely to invest in women. Venture capital firms with female partners were 2.5 times more likely to invest in companies with women on the management team according to Babson College's Diana Project.
Younger generations recognize the value of diversity. Younger generations of venture capital investors, CFOs and administrators are increasingly more diverse than previous generations (National Venture Capital Association).
It’s up to you and me to build the team. Talented women and minorities are there to be found in less senior positions. Consider reaching out and mentoring them, and you will help improve diversity and competitiveness in 2016. You can:
Reverse the trend for women. Female partners in venture capital firms actually declined in the last 15 years, from 10% in 1999 to just 6% in 2014 according to Babson College.
Use diversity to increase the overall success of investment funds. Just 13% of venture capital partners self-identified as minorities, and of those only 1% African American and less than 1% Latino, according to the National Venture Capital Association .
Use private organizations that have built a pipeline of qualified and diversified talent. This is a cost effective way to counteract a lack of diversity: Toigo Fellows, SEO Alternative Investment Fellows, Gateway to Leadership Interns, Management Leadership for Tomorrow Fellows, and Kauffman Fellows.
I look forward to making new acquaintances in 2016 as I mentor young professionals. My colleagues, new and old, do the same. I hope you’ll join us as a mentor.
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Michele Schimpp is the Office
of Investment and Innovation's
new Deputy AA and has over 20
years of experience managing U.S.
government organizations and
start-up operations related to
global job creation, competitive
ness and economic growth.
For more information please
visit : www.sba.gov/content/
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BY: Michele Schimpp
Published: January 21, 2016
Updated: January 21, 2016
Source: https://www.sba.gov/
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Business Resources
Indiana Department of
Administration—Division of
Supplier Diversity
402 W. Washington St. Rm W479
Indianapolis, IN 46204
Phone: 317-232-3061
E-mail: [email protected]
Indianapolis Department of
Minority & Women
Business Development
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Indianapolis, IN 46204
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Indiana Department of
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Indiana Small Business
Development Center—
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1201 West State Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907
Phone: 765-496-6491
E-mail: [email protected]
Mid-States Minority Supplier
Development Council
2126 North Meridian Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Phone: 317-923-2110
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National Association of
Women Business Owners—
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310 N. Alabama St. Suite 330
Indianapolis, IN 46204
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District Office
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Indianapolis, IN 46240
Phone: 317-226-7272
Website: www.sba.gov/in
Office of Supplier Diversity Development 401 S. Grant Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907
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http://www.purdue.edu/supplierdiversity
Jesse L. Moore, Director/Catalyst Editor-in-Chief Marta Foth, Administrative Assistant
Daniel Martinez, Supplier Diversity Specialist