The Harrisburg Regional Chamber is dedicated to developing woman and minority-owned businesses in the Harrisburg Region. The Chamber's Business Diversity Advisory Council focuses on enhancing opportunities for women and minority entrepreneurs in the region.

The goal of Business Diversity Development Program is to enhance opportunities for women and minority business entrepreneurs throughout Central Pennsylvania 's tri-county region by supporting women and minority businesses with educational training, technical assistance, and identification of financial resources. In addition, the goal is to establish regional mentoring for woman and minority business owners and provide recognition of community and state organizations that support the viability of minority businesses. 

To learn more about the Business Diversity Initiative and Development Advisory Council please call Harrisburg Regional Chamber & CREDC at 717.232.4099

You can also visit the website of our affiliate organization, the African American Chamber of Commerce, at www.aacchp.org

Pennsylvania's Business Diversity Portal website at www.diversityinpa.com/

HARRISBURG REGIONAL CHAMBER
BUSINESS DIVERSITY INITIATIVE
MISSION STATEMENT

It is the responsibility of the Chamber to both internally and externally enhance diversity of our membership to positively impact the economic development of our region. Therefore, it is the strategic business objective of the Chamber’s Business Diversity Initiative:

• To serve as a "matchmaking" catalyst by helping to identify opportunities for women and minority owned businesses in the supplier chains of the region's entire business community.
• To build capacity of women and minority owned businesses to better meet new business opportunities
• To gain interest, understanding and acceptance of the economic value of supplier chain diversity as a "best practice" in business in our region
• To grow the Chamber's membership among diverse sectors of the business community

These objectives will be achieved through:

1. The development and compilation of a comprehensive database of women and minority owned businesses including their areas of expertise, competencies, and capacity.
2. Provide a process by which minority and women-owned businesses poised for growth can be matched with business opportunities with medium and large corporations,
3. The establishment of a Business Advisory Council representative of the diversity within the region, and
4. Development of accountability measures to heighten awareness, sensitivity and cultivate commitment to inclusion in the Chamber/CREDC’s programs, activities, products, and services.