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GMSDC Hosts Annual Meeting on December 11, Closing a Historic 50th Anniversary Year
The Georgia Minority Supplier Development Council (GMSDC) will close its milestone 50th anniversary year with its 2025 Annual Meeting & Year in Review on Thursday, December 11, from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights. The event will bring together corporate leaders, small businesses, community partners, and long-time supporters…
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The Georgia Minority Supplier Development Council (GMSDC) is the state of Georgia’s leading advocacy organization for small business development and supplier diversity. Our primary focus is simple – to certify Minority Business Enterprise firms, help them prepare to engage global supply chains, and then facilitate partnerships with corporations and governments in need of their goods and services. We also advocate on behalf of our community in the halls of government and the overall community.
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GrowForward: Investing in the People Behind Georgia’s Small Business Success
For 50 years, the Georgia Minority Supplier Development Council (GMSDC) and its nonprofit partner, the Georgia Education Foundation (GEF), have stood beside small business owners across the state, helping them find opportunity, build connections, and strengthen their communities. Behind every contract, every partnership, and every milestone is an entrepreneur working tirelessly to build something meaningful.…
GMSDC Celebrates 50 Years at Spirit of Alliance Awards, Launches GrowForward Campaign
The Georgia Minority Supplier Development Council (GMSDC) marked a major milestone Friday evening, celebrating its 50th anniversary during the annual Spirit of Alliance Awards at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis. The event honored companies and individuals who are advancing supplier inclusion and helping shape Georgia’s economy. “For fifty years, GMSDC has turned supplier inclusion into results…
Rodney K. Strong on Atlanta’s Legacy of Inclusion and the Fight Ahead
Rodney K. Strong has spent more than four decades shaping how public agencies and private companies open doors for small and minority-owned businesses. This fall, the Georgia Minority Supplier Development Council (GMSDC) will honor him with its Blue Legend Award on September 19, 2025, at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis, recognizing a lifetime of work that…
Small Business Leaders to Convene at 2025 Financial Summit in Atlanta
The Georgia Minority Supplier Development Council (GMSDC), in partnership with the Small Business Alliance, will host the 2025 Financial Summit on Monday, September 15, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. “The Financial Summit is an important gathering for small business leaders in Georgia,” said Stacey Key, Chief Executive Officer and President of the GMSDC.…
GMSDC Celebrates National Small Business Month: Honoring the Backbone of Georgia’s Economy
The Month of May is designated National Small Business Month across the nation. It is well documented how significant small businesses are to the overall economic health and well-being of any community, and the outsized impact they have on the global economy. In markets around the world, employers of just a handful of people are…
How the Community Business Development Program is Strengthening Georgia’s Small Businesses
The Georgia Minority Supplier Development Council (GMSDC), which has been serving Georgia’s business community for five decades, is celebrating its 50th Anniversary in 2025. What originated as a supplier diversity initiative to give Atlanta’s minority business community a legitimate seat at the table in corporate supply chains, has evolved into so much more over the…
The GMSDC Celebrates Women’s History Month: Honoring Women Who Shape the Past and Future
The Georgia Minority Supplier Development Council (GMSDC) is celebrating a milestone anniversary in 2025…50 years of facilitating business partnerships and stimulating the economy of the Great State of Georgia. What began in 1975 as the Atlanta Regional Minority Purchasing Council – the brainchild of a bold handful of Georgia corporations who saw economic equity as…
We Know What to Do—Now Let’s Do It
I recently addressed a room full of business owners and corporate decision-makers at a Welcome to Georgia reception to kick off the national supplier diversity conference in Atlanta. My challenge to the group was a simple question with broad implications for the future. When I first asked, “What Will You Do?”, it was a call…
Celebrating 50 Years of Supplier Diversity: The GMSDC’s Golden Anniversary
2025 marks a historic milestone for The Georgia Minority Supplier Development Council (GMSDC), as the state’s leading supplier diversity and small business development organization celebrates its 50th Anniversary. For five decades, the GMSDC has been at the forefront of economic equity, facilitating supply chain partnerships between Georgia’s small and minority businesses and the corporations and…
Nzinga Shaw’s Call to Action on Economic Equity – ‘What Will You Do?’
The GMSDC welcomed the Supplier Diversity Community to Atlanta for the NMSDC National Conference and Exchange on October 20 – 23. This annual gathering brings together thousands of corporate decision-makers, minority business owners, procurement professionals and industry experts for workshops, keynotes, panels, matchmaking and networking opportunities focused on economic equity. The GMSDC is one of…
Maria Guerra-Stoll named to Georgia Film Commission
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp recently appointed Maria Guerra-Stoll, the CEO of Atlanta’s GSB Architects and Interiors, to the Georgia Film, Music and Digital Entertainment Advisory Commission. Guerra-Stoll, also the principal of PAM Studios (Playa Azul Media) in Rome, was a pioneer in the design and implementation of the sound stages, backlots and studios that now…
Georgia Legislators to Host DEI Hearings
One of the hot topics on today’s political landscape is the concept of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, commonly referred to as DEI, an umbrella term for programs and initiatives designed to create opportunities for minorities and other historically disadvantaged segments of the population. For nearly 100 years, civic leaders, elected officials, community leaders, non-profits and…
GMSDC Announces Honorable Roger Bruce as 2024 Blue Legend Award Recipient
The Georgia Minority Supplier Development Council (GMSDC) is proud to announce that the Honorable Roger Bruce will be the 2024 recipient of the Blue Legend Award, the top individual honor at the Council’s annual Spirit of Alliance Awards (SOA). This year’s SOA gala – scheduled for Wednesday, August 28th – will be a luncheon presentation,…
Tribute to an American Business Legend Dr. William F. ‘Bill’ Pickard
Each of us is afforded but a few opportunities, over the course of a lifetime, to walk with giants who are among us. For some, that might entail meeting a Hall of Fame athlete, going backstage at a landmark concert event, shaking the hand of an admired political leader or spending time with legendary icons…
The Economic Power of DEI in Business
Did you know that emphasizing diversity is good economic policy? Much of the debate over Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in American business centers around the perception that seeking out diversity ultimately diminishes the quality of the product, the productivity of the team, or the efficiency of the operation. The lawsuit that led to the Supreme…
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