The noble aims of Project REACh will be on display on May 29-30 at the REACh Financial Inclusion Summit and CapStream product development manager Tafara Jhamba will be speaking about providing access to capital and surety bonding for minority-owned construction businesses.  As for these noble aims, Project REACh focuses on collaborative efforts to build and…

Small businesses received about 27% of federal contracting dollars in 2022. Of these contracts, 5% went to minority-owned or disadvantaged businesses. Five percent of 27% is small potatoes, right?  Not necessarily. Small business contracts were valued at $163 billion.  Five percent of that number is $8.1 billion and the set-asides that produce these figures are…

Of the more than $650 billion that the federal government contracted for in 2020 (the most recent study available), nearly $560 billion was eligible to be done through small businesses.  State contracts add billions, if not trillions more.  CapStream can help you get government contracts, but first, you need to understand three of the most…

CapStream surety specialist Michael White attended a DC-area gathering at construction firm MCN Build arranged by the Metro DC Hispanic Contractors Association.  The focus of the gathering was to help minority contractors understand and access the proliferating opportunities in school construction and maintenance. Of immediate interest was the construction of eight elementary schools in Prince…