The Board of Directors is a dynamic group of business and non-profit executives that help set out the CMC’s vision and assist in carrying out it’s important mission: to be the premiere business resource and advocate as the region experiences exponential growth.

Your assistance is critical to the process of forming an active and well-qualified Board of Directors. As a result, we highly encourage you to apply or nominate a worthy individual who can help set a strong course for the Central Maryland Chamber and its member businesses.

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Small business owners in Maryland will have a third chance at obtaining a grant that could help them grow their companies starting Tuesday.

Gov. Larry Hogan announced on Monday that the third round of applications for Opportunity Zone Microgrants would be open to the public this week.

The grants range in size from $50,000 to $100,000.

The grants are distributed through the Neighborhood BusinessWorks program, which is administered by the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development, according to state officials.

The first two rounds of Opportunity Zone microgrant funding sank $1 million into 20 businesses across Maryland, state officials said.

Applications for the third round of funding will be reviewed on a first-come, first-serve basis. They will only be open as long as funds are available, state officials said.

To visit the Maryland Opportunity Zone Information Exchange or find more details on Opportunity Zones in Maryland, visit dhcd.maryland.gov/OpportunityZones.

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) today announced that they have received a grant of nearly $120,000 from the Maryland Department of Labor to expand its Registered Apprenticeship for Finance Business Partners in the state.

The funds from the grant will cover instruction-related costs for a minimum of 25 new apprentices.

Through the state’s Apprenticeship and Training Program, more than 12,000 apprentices are registered to be trained in new job skills with 3,879 employers across the state. “Since day one, Governor Hogan has been focused on utilizing common sense solutions to grow and expand economic opportunities for all Marylanders,” said Secretary Tiffany Robinson. “His steadfast support for Registered Apprenticeship has allowed Maryland Labor to not only grow the number of apprentices in our state to an historic level, but also to grow and diversify the industries and occupations that are served by our successful apprenticeship system.Our partnership with the AICPA is a continued step in the right direction.”

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Weekly Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Awareness Conversations

Can setting workforce diversity goals and posting progress reports help companies move the needle on diversity? This approach has spread like wildfire in the last two years. It’s too soon to tell whether the new fad is working, so we turned to past experience of firms that set goals and posted progress as early as the 1970s. That experience suggests that when done right, goals and regular progress reports can boost diversity even among management jobs.

The current wave of posting workforce diversity data began in the early 2010s, with a group of tech firms. Then, in 2020, prompted by the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, and by growing shareholder pressure to disclose diversity numbers, firms across the economy began to set goals and post data. By September 2021, 55% of Russell 1,000 companies had posted workforce gender, race, and ethnicity data, up from 32% in January. By then, more than 70 big companies had set public gender-diversity targets for 2025 or 2030, including Airbnb, Bank of America, Bloomberg, Coca-Cola, GE, Intel, McKinsey, TaskRabbit, and Xerox.

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