This September marks the 25th anniversary of the United States Minority Chamber of Commerce’s work on behalf of thousands of minority business owners in the Americas.
We are grateful for the opportunity to advocate and prepare more than 37,000 members and over 10 million small minority businesses globally, which are the backbone of the United States’s private sector economy.
Our legacy in the last 25 years as the United States Minority Business Organization’s largest, most respected, and most influential advocacy and connectivity organization is the result of a remarkable combination of our members, partners, and staff. Our member U.S. companies fuel the economy and create innovative solutions that make them a global leader in innovation, imagination, and resilience.
Our upcoming business meetings will center on bolstering the competitiveness of these U.S. companies. A fresh perspective with innovations are long overdue to increase the economy.
Going global
Today, the Chamber is emphasizing the importance of going global to small businesses in America. This strong and urgent calling is paramount to securing our prosperity and global leadership. In essence, we must collectively bridge the growth and innovation divide vis-à-vis our global counterparts and safeguard our economic, industrial, and technological base, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Concretely, our competitiveness deal should cut across different events, summits, and resources available through our business hubs in Bogota, Santo Domingo, Tegucigalpa, and Mexico City. I propose that we set out operational taskings across key sectors.
We must work to secure and ensure a coherent and smart framework to enable our businesses to grow and thrive. Investments and commerce are strategic sectors that play a vital role in enhancing our competitiveness. In this context, a combination of private and public financing, alongside a reassessment of our approach to state aid, is imperative.
Our programs, resources, events, and technical assistance provide aid for our associates at the very highest levels of business relations. The Chamber has worked to achieve the goal of uniting businesses and advancing United States leadership in the region by ensuring facilitation centers for trade, investment, international cooperation, and hiring foreign labor that protect and bolster our companies across the world.
We are ready to facilitate access to Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Honduras for our members, partners, and clients. We have led many victories through our trade mission, including business tours, a matchmaking gold program and relocation, preparing the foreign labor workforce to work with U.S. members, entrepreneurship start-up programs focusing on quality business education, and much more.
By 2026, we are committed to fully building out all 10 new global chapters in Argentina, Israel, and Africa as well as five new business hubs in the United States. The more people who develop the skills needed to sustain U.S. relations — communication, listening, negotiating, honesty, integrity, diversity, tolerance, flexibility, and resilience — the better. Small businesses are the engines of our economic progress; they’re the glue and the heart and soul of our communities.
Getting our economy back means bringing our small businesses back. That’s what we’re going to do. That’s what I’m doing today. We’re going to focus. See you soon!
