Explanation
Background: This ordinance authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to enter into a grant agreement with the Greater Columbus Convention & Visitor’s Bureau dba Experience Columbus, to provide funding to support minority businesses through the Minority Owned Business Sponsorship Program.
Experience Columbus is an accredited leading force in creating and revealing the best of the Columbus experience to the world. Experience Columbus' mission is to sell, market and promote the Destination Columbus experience to visitors. Experience Columbus seeks to rectify the disparity faced by small, minority businesses in attaining visibility in the marketplace, by launching a program to provide access to marketing resources, exposure to the community through visitor and local awareness, and networking opportunities to help these businesses continue to thrive. This program will help support up to 100 small, minority owned businesses through Experience Columbus partnerships and the scaling of marketing campaigns to expose these businesses to the community and achieve increased visibility in the community, generate profits by promoting sales through social media and seasonal gift guides and other potential opportunities for increased marketing. This program will build and foster connections between the selected minority businesses and other local businesses across industries.
Fiscal Impact: This legislation authorizes the total expenditure of up to $175,000.00 over one year from the General Fund Budget, Jobs Growth Subfund.
Contract Compliance: the vendor number is 006014 and expires on 10/5/24.
Title
To authorize the Director of the Department of Development to enter into a grant agreement with the Greater Columbus Convention & Visitor’s Bureau dba Experience Columbus to provide programming to support minority-led businesses in the community; and to authorize the appropriation and expenditure of up to $175,000.00 from the 2023 Jobs Growth S...
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