New Outreach Effort to District’s Latino Business Community launched along with the Release of the 2008 Doing Business in Washington, DC Guide Book, Spanish Edition

The Washington, DC Economic Partnership, in partnership with the Greater Washington Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (GWHCC) released the 2008 Doing Business in Washington, DC Guide Book, Spanish Edition, at a program held at the Spanish Embassy on October 8th, to encourage entrepreneurship and business development within the District’s Hispanic community.

The program also marked the unveiling of an outreach program to inform the Hispanic Business Community about the benefits of achieving Certified Business Enterprise status. This initiative, a joint effort of the Department of Small and Local Business Development and GWHCC, is aimed at improving business resources for the District’s growing Hispanic community and is scheduled to launch in 2009.