VIDEO: Small Business Administration, Gay and Lesbian Chamber Join PG&E at Historic LGBT Business Builder Event
SAN FRANCISCO—More than 200 representatives of LGBT-owned business enterprises came to PG&E’s San Francisco headquarters on Monday (March 2) to participate on the first stop of a nationwide LGBT Business Builder. This historic initiative, co-sponsored by PG&E, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC), is designed to remove barriers and increase access to strategic growth opportunities for America’s LGBT business owners.
The workshop provided businesses with information on the importance of being certified as an NGLCC LGBT Business Enterprise, the ways to leverage resources and information from the SBA into procurement contracts, and how to take advantage of business opportunities now available in California because of Assembly Bill (AB) 1678. This law, which went into effect Jan. 1, requires utilities to give LGBT businesses the same access to contracts as other minority, women and disabled veteran enterprises.
