NAMC Call to Action 08/06/26 | Minority Women-Owned Business are Facing More Exclusion – Why is Everyone So Quiet?
 August 6, 2026 NAMC Call to Action Minority Women-Owned Businesses Are Facing More Exclusion – Why Is Everyone So Quiet? The Business Community, Corporate Professionals, and Contractors Should Be Alarmed At NAMC, we stand on advocacy and the right to participate in the U.S. economy. This includes the equitable use of our taxpayer dollars. Minority women-owned businesses face heightened exclusion driven by a rollback of corporate diversity programs, severely restricted access to venture capital, and systemic lending biases. Despite launching businesses at record rates out of economic necessity, founders confront compounding financial and institutional hurdles. Financial and Funding Barriers Capital deficits: Venture capital funding for Black women-founded startups has dropped to minimal fractional shares, making traditional scaling nearly impossible without heavy self-funding or high-interest debt. Loan rejections: Loan rejection rates for Black female entrepreneurs historically run significantly higher than average, paired with stricter terms and higher interest rates. This is causing wider wealth gaps, as lower median household wealth and fewer personal assets restrict the collateral required by commercial banks. New Corporate and Network Exclusion DEI rollbacks: Corporations have retreated from supplier diversity and inclusion (DEI) programs, reducing lucrative business-to-business contract opportunities for minority women-owned enterprises and corporate employment opportunities. Network Isolation – The Buyers Are Gone Mass corporate layoffs and workplace rollbacks are pushing many minority women into entrepreneurship, not by choice, but as a survival strategy following systemic displacement. Minority women are being forced out of the labor force. We are now seeing a reversal in opportunities—the business climate is shrinking and the unemployment rate is rising. With minority women currently experiencing unemployment of over 7%, when will the alarm sound—at 10%? Government Programs Realignment City of Houston lawsuit. Programs and corporations are openly stating that they have a WBE program that does not emphasize minority women. Black women entrepreneurs have been hit exceptionally hard as U.S. companies are axing diversity programs. U.S. corporations’ retreat from supplier diversity initiatives is affecting minority women the most. Even minority women as employees are systematically excluded from many occupations. Even with higher education, this new movement is showing us that minority women are at risk. We cannot remain quiet. Please contact the NAMC national office with questions or comments. Respectfully, Wendell R. Stemley, PM / CMNAMC National President |
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