How do I find a list of Minority Enterprise Small Business Investment Companies?
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Minority Enterprise Small Business Investment Companies (MESBIC)\n\n\n\nMESBICs are privately owned and managed investment firms, chartered by the Small Business Administration, that provide debt and equity capital to new, small independent businesses. Criteria for investment and size and type of investment vary from one firm to another.\n\nmoreinfo.jpg (3202 bytes) \n\n\nJohn R. Rice\nASi/Q\nOne Park Square, Suite 210\n6501 Americas Parkway. NE\nAlbuquerque, NM  87110\n(505) 247-4050\nFax: (505) 888-5244\nEmail: johnr@asiqmanagement.com\nhttp://www.asiqmanagement.com
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Have a look to the commercial chamber. They should keep such a list.\n\nKaterina
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Check their respective websites and look up their platforms.  That will give you a wealth of information.
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go to thomasnet.com or the Thomas register, it has every type of company with listings etc.
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When you look at a balance sheet, you will see an entry called "Minority Interest".  This refers to the equity of the minority shareholders in a company's subsidiaries.
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Why not list the business and give information here? Is there a website? Company name? I hate to be blind-sighted.
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There are many places. Try dyn-corp international, haliburton, brown and root, triple canopy, black water usa just to name a few. Get on the net and start searching they are out there. I spent time in the east with dyn-corp not a bad company.  Lots of luck
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The best place to start is Hoovers business database:\nhttp://www.hoovers.com/free/\n\nThis database provides access to 42,000 public and non-public US and international companies. \n\nWhen you want to dig deeper, find a library near you that has access to the subscription version. Subscribers have access to more than 14 million small to mid-sized companies.
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Small Business Association.. and try federal grants - since you are minorities.. your odds of getting a grant or loan is higher.. especially since you have a solid business plan
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http://www.sba.gov/smallbusinessplanner/plan/index.html
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Check to see if they are listed with the better business buraeu... what type of website were you looking at?
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Write to locally based companies and ask. Its the only way!
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Venture capitalists and Angel Investors really truly exist. What you need to to is go down to your local SBA office and they should be able to give you a list of them. However, to get them to invest in your company you need to have an outstanding business plan and show that you have money to front as well. They don't come easily but when they do they are "angels"!\n\nGood luck!
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You can go to the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) http://www.cfda.gov and Grants.gov http://www.grants.gov - these are two sites created by the federal government to provide transparency and information on grants. Browse through the listings and see if you can find any grant that would support your purposes. \n\nIn the instructions at Grants.gov, you have to first go to CFDA to find out the grant number that you qualify. You can search CFDA various ways (by grant number, by keyword, etc.). You can find grant programs by category -- here are the lists of grants under Home Buying/Homeownership http://12.46.245.173/pls/portal30/CATALOG.FIND_GRANT_PROGRAM_TXT.SHOW?p_arg_names=func_cat_cd&p_arg_values=ML  Check if any applies to you\n\nTo make searching easier, Housing and Urban Development HUD has a list of housing grants http://www.hud.gov/offices/adm/grants/fundsavail.cfm - though I have NOT seen any grants available for first time homeowners.\n\nEven if you buy books on "how to get grants" or list that supposedly has information on grants -- all of them are mere rehash of what CFDA has, albeit packaged differently.\n\nNote though that these grants generally support non-profit organizations, intermediary lending institutions, and state and local governments. Most of the federal grants are given to specific target groups with specific requirements (e.g. minority business owners involved in transportation related contracts emanating from DOT - Grant#20.905 Disadvantaged Business Enterprises Short Term Lending Program. Individuals especially for personal purposes are not eligible for federal grants. \n\nGrants are also often given to non profit groups or organizations involved in training or other similar activities (grant 59.043 Women's Business Ownership Assistance that are given to those who will create women's business center that will train women entrepreneurs \n\nEven SBA does NOT give out grants for starting or expanding a business. There are no grants for small businesss entrepreneur -- unless you live in a really depressed area such as Native American reservations. From the SBA website http://www.sba.gov/expanding/grants.html\n\n"The U.S. Small Business Administration does not offer grants to start or expand small businesses, although it does offer a wide variety of loan programs. (See http://www.sba.gov/financing for more information) While SBA does offer some grant programs, these are generally designed to expand and enhance organizations that provide small business management, technical, or financial assistance. These grants generally support non-profit organizations, intermediary lending institutions, and state and local governments."\n\n\nhttp://www.cfda.gov\nhttp://www.grants.gov\nhttp://gtionline.fdncenter.org\nhttp://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol66/grants.htm\nhttp://www.sba.gov/expanding/grants.html
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Go to the internet and put  www.cfda.gov in the address dialog box and hit enter.  Read all you can.  That is the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance.  It can help minorities and anyone else who wants free information on grants.  Matthew Lesko and others just copied this free information to any one, and charge a price to buy their books.
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For this type of information, you should consult your local public of college librarian.\n\nUsing a special, subscription-based database such as Hoovers, Mintel, or ABI/Inform Global, they can help you build a list of companies that meets your criteria.\n\nSo go ask your local librarian-- they get paid to help you find answers (plus, they love a challenge!).
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if you can qualify as a minority there are programs available providing you have a business plan.\n\nYou can form a C Corp, and if 51% of the officers are female(preferable over 50), Hispanic, or Afro-American, or handicapped, you can most likely get it done.\n\nYour first call should be to your local Small Business Administration. They could direct you.