2018 Broad Agency Announcement Grant Awards Listing

These programs are part of the 2018 MBDA Broad Agency Announcement, a new initiative this year. More than $13 million was awarded for 35 projects focused on Department of Commerce and MBDA priorities from resources that increase disaster preparedness and relief to programs that increase access to capital.

The full list of MBDA’s 2018 BAA grant awards:

Access to Capital

• Harbor Bank of Maryland Community Development Corporation ($400,000)
• National Association of Investment Companies, Inc. ($350,000)
• The Enterprise Center ($500,000)

American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian

• American Indian Science and Engineering Society ($233,881)
• ASIAN, Inc. ($300,000)
• Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement ($300,000)
• University of Alaska Anchorage ($300,000)
• New Mexico Community Capital ($300,000)
• Rural Community Assistance Corporation ($300,000)
• Rural Enterprises of Oklahoma, Inc. ($300,000)
• National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development ($556,609)
• Kauffman & Associates, Inc. ($300,000)
• United Tribes Technical College ($300,000)

Aquaculture

• Florida State Minority Supplier Development Council ($400,000)

Disaster Readiness

• Asociación Productos de Puerto Rico, Inc. ($273,793)
• Xavier University of Louisiana ($465,894)

Disaster Recovery

• Houston Community College ($500,000)
• Synergistic Hawaii Agriculture Council ($483,042)
• M. Gill & Associates ($500,000)

Entrepreneurship Education Program for Formerly Incarcerated Persons

• DESA, Inc. ($400,000) 
• Georgetown University ($399,865)
• J&J Monitoring ($199,990)

Global Minority Women Economic Empowerment Initiative

• Walker’s Legacy ($400,000)
• El Paso Hispanic Chamber of Commerce ($400,000)

Historically Black Colleges and Universities Initiative

• Clark Atlanta University ($499,497)
• Howard University ($359,891)
• South Carolina State University ($404,992)
• Tougaloo College ($695,412)

Research

• Research Foundation of the City University of New York ($200,000)

Space Commerce

• United States Space Foundation ($400,000)

Sustainable Business Model

• Metropolitan Economic Development Association ($382,896)

Technology Transfer and Commercialization

• Inncuvate Consulting, LLC ($400,000
• University of Louisville ($400,201)

Virtual Business Center

• National 8(a) Association ($300,000)
• The University of Toledo ($400,000)