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Henry T. (Hank) Wilfong, Jr, President
Wyllene Watson-Wilfong, Vice President
National Association of
Small Disadvantaged Businesses
5520 Waters Dr.
Savannah, GA 31406
(cell) 301-537-0297
Hwilfongjr@aol.com
BLOG= http://nasdb.blogspot.com
TO JOIN US: Small Disadvantaged Businesses- Make check payable to NASDB-in the amount of $300, for annual dues...
ASSOCIATE MEMBERS- $500 for annual dues...
JOINING NASDB
We're moving forward into Fiscal Year 2008, with great hope, a little trepidation. We've got great hope, because that is our nature. We have trepidation, because we are veterans of the struggle. We know what we're about, and what our mission is. We're not quite sure, sometimes, who the "enemy" is.
One thing we do know, though. What needs to be done-we can't do by ourselves. We're gonna need help-plenty of it.
We are fortunate to be Coalition Partners with WIPP (Women Impacting Public Policy)-they're gonna be a big help. We're well acquainted with several other minority and woman-owned business groups. Some are good, some are not. So, as we roll this boulder up the hill, we're gonna play it a little close to the vest. We're gonna build from within.
NASDB), is a Trade Association, consisting of approximately 300 minority and women-owned businesses, located throughout the United States. We are devoted to the enhancement of opportunities for minority and women-owned businesses to be able to fully and freely participate in the business of America. We do this primarily by educating minorities and women as to what they're entitled to under the law, and how to best achieve it.
We help educate the Governmental agencies, and the major prime contractors who serve them, as to their responsibilities under the Constitution and the laws enacted by the United States Congress. And, we seek to create an environment conducive to potential supplier interacting successfully with the potential customer.
Our SDB Institute of Learning and other activities, have served to make some things crystal clear, as to the myriad of problems that face small disadvantaged businesses, as they attempt to navigate the Federal Procurement system.
NASDB has been the most active and aggressive, of all the Trade Associations. While we are proud of our past, we feel our best days are still ahead of us. Much of the momentum that had been built up is gone, replaced by apathy. The lack of advocacy leadership is glaring. And, finally, there has been a loss of faith in some of the Agencies that formerly led in the inclusion of the disadvantaged.
Though we moved our base from Washington, D.C., we shall continue the struggle. We reformed the NASDB in the D.C. area, for a purpose. We've achieved much of that purpose. We've gotten a real and better feel of what it's like to live in the Center of the power base. We feel the lessons learned, the contacts made and strengthened will help us better serve our constituency. We founded the SDB Institute of Learning, as our "reaching and teaching" arm. That shall continue, and be expanded.
We came to D.C. to recapture a constituency. We came to D.C. to build an "Army", so vitally needed to support our struggle. We came to D.C. to attract more of you to come here. Not, to live, but to visit more strategically. We've re-incorporated in Maryland, to be closer to the action, and to allow us to better serve and to be more effective in our representing the interests of our member firms and the rest of the small disadvantaged business community. We will change that corporate base to Georgia.
Things don't just happen. They are made to happen. We've known that for a long time. More of you need to learn that. And, you need to learn how to deal with it. So many of you have been left out of the decision making about what's happening around you. And, it's going to continue, unless and until, you do something about it.
NASDB is the vehicle to help accomplish this....
To join is simple. You "self-certify" that you are owned and controlled by a minority/woman-owned, or one of the other "designated groups", covered under the laws. Your submittal of the $300 annual dues are indication that you support and want to join us, as a REGULAR member.
You non-designated group firms who believe in our cause, can join as ASSOCIATE members, by the submission of the $500 annual dues.
It's that simple.
The struggle has moved to a new paradigm,
Henry T. Wilfong Jr., MBA, CPA
President, NASDB
Current or Former Positions:
Three-time Appointee of Governor and President Ronald Reagan
Pasadena, CA City Councilman
Member, Bush-Cheney Transition Team-SBA Advisory Group
Member, Department of Energy, Small Business Advisory Committee
Associate Administrator Minority Small Business/Capital Ownership Development, SBA
Member, National Council on Policy Review-Black Capitalism
Member, Presidential Task Force on International Private Enterprise
Member, California Council on Criminal Justice
Member, NASA Advisory Council
Chair, NASA Minority Business Resource Advisory Committee