Shameless Request for Votes!

We’ve applied for a Mission Main Street℠ Grant in Chase’s program that will award twelve (12) small businesses with grants of $250,000 in January 2014.   You can learn about last year’s program and listen to interviews with last year’s winners.

Abator, always a WBE, knows getting certified as diversity owned can be challenging for small businesses. And maintaining the information and supporting documents can seem overwhelming — especially if the business holds multiple certifications.  Our GetDiversityCertified.com service is designed to deliver a simple, one stop Turbo Tax-like guided solution to help: determine eligibility; make multiple applications; and manage supporting documents in a secure electronic vault.  Being awarded a grant would enable us to add: technical staff to complete the GetDiversityCertified software development, testing & launch effort; professional staff to assist small and disadvantaged SDMWVBE (Small, Disadvantaged, Minority, Women or Veteran Business Enterprise) businesses and add infrastructure to support the web site.

Please vote for us!

And there’s still time for you to comment on DOT’s proposed new rules for the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program.  Comments are due by 10/30.