- Minority Business Enterprise (MBE)
- A minority owned business that is a continuing, independent, for profit business which performs a commercially useful function, and is at least fifty-one percent (51%) owned and controlled by one (1) or more minority individuals who are impeded from normal entry into the economic mainstream because of past practices of discrimination based on race or ethnic background. Recognized ethnic minorities are as follows:
- African American
- A person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa.
- Hispanic American
- A person of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race.
- Native American
- A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North America.
- Asian American
- A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, or the Pacific Islands.
- Woman Business Enterprise (WBE)
- A woman owned business that is a continuing, independent, for profit business which performs a commercially useful function, and is at least fifty-one percent (51%) owned and controlled by one (1) or more women; or in the case of any publicly owned business, at least fifty-one percent (51%) of the stock of which is owned and controlled by one (1) or more women and whose management and daily business operations are under the control of one (1) or more women.
- Small Business Enterprise (SBE)
- A business that is independently owned and operated, in accordance with the provisions of this part, and is not dominant in its field of operation.
Small Business Guidelines (pdf format)
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