Become a Member
As a member of the Northwest Mountain MSDC, you will have the opportunity to leverage our database of hundreds of qualified MBEs in our region plus thousands more nationally. Our core purpose is to connect qualified suppliers to where they can be best utilized; your membership and presence in our network helps to facilitate that process.
Why Become a Member?
Access Certified Minority Businesses
Our certification process verifies that the minority owned business is who they say they are and qualifies them for business with our members.
Contract Diverse Suppliers When You Need Them
Saves you time and energy searching for small, diverse firms who are ready and capable to do business with corporations and public agencies
Mitigate Risk with Vetted Suppliers
Buying from our directory of certified MBEs mitigates the risk to the buyer because our MBEs have been thoroughly vetted for their business structure and capabilities.
Connect with MBEs and Corporations Nation-wide.
Unlock Your Strategic Advantage
The Northwest Mountain MSDC is committed to helping you understand, plan, and achieve your supplier diversity goals. We work with each member to help get your supplier diversity program to where you want it to be.
Learn how investing money in supplier diversity not only pays for itself, but also contributes more dollars to your bottom line. Supplier diversity helps connect the most qualified and best value supplier to your purchasing needs, every time.
What We Do
The Northwest Mountain MSDC has worked with dozens of corporations and public agencies to help further the goals of supplier diversity.
We have worked with many of the large corporations that operate in our region, but we can’t be as forthcoming about the details of those projects. Our recent public sector partners include the City of Seattle, the Port of Seattle, the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries (LNI), the Office of Minority and Women’s Business Enterprises (OMWBE), and the University of Washington.
City of Seattle Technical Assistance Program
We spent several years overseeing a technical assistance program with the City of Seattle providing in-depth support to minority- and women-owned businesses who were looking to do business with the city, helping business accomplish their growth goals and helping the city leverage its investments into increasing supplier diversity.
OMWBE Outreach & Technical Assistance
The similarity of our certification to MBE, WBE, and WMBE certifications through OMWBE has created a natural opportunity to partner with their office. We have worked with them on certification workshops and certification assistance to eligible businesses throughout Washington, and technical assistance for existing OMWBE-certified businesses.
PortGen Business Accelerator
In collaboration with the Port of Seattle, we oversaw a business accelerator program in 2022 with the goal of providing high-level education and development to a small cohort of diverse businesses that were looking to increase their capabilities and work on future Port of Seattle contracts.
Become A Member
If you are intereted in learning more about becoming a corporate or public agency member of the Northwest Mountain MSDC, complete the short inquiry form and one of our staff will reach out to schedule a meeting.
