Central Coast Minority Enterprise Resource Affiliates (CCMERA) "helps businesses do business"! Our mission is to be a dynamic business development resource, which assists emerging, small, and mid-size entities, within the Central Coast region of California, to generate revenue and grow the enterprise. This is done through the power of creating connections, facilitating networking, inculcating knowledge, and leveraging synergies of available resources for excellence in business growth and success. To accomplish our mission, CCMERA's initiatives include facilitating educational and networking events, enabling knowledge and communication, providing support services, and expediting access to vital resources, with the purpose of helping minority businesses grow and prosper. We are a dynamic central hub for disseminating business information and connecting the dots between and among entrepreneurs, professionals, small and mid-size enterprises, and the agencies, consultants, corporations, customers, and organizations that positively impact the bottom line. CCMERA works cooperatively with all organizations, however, we exist to enhance business development, economic development, and financial literacy for African American, Asian American, Latino, Native American, indigenous peoples, and other communities of color, as well as, for women, veterans, and other underrepresented groups.

2. AGENDA
• PROGRAM
• ADVANTAGES
• PURPOSE
• PROCESS
• PEOPLE
• STAKEHOLDERS
• NETWORK

3. PROGRAM
• Central Coast Minority Enterprise Resource Affiliates (CCMERA)
is a dynamic business development resource.
• CCMERA assists emerging, small, and medium-size enterprises
within the California Central Coast region in growing the enterprise.
• CCMERA “helps businesses do business.”

4. ADVANTAGES
• Affiliate discounts – business to business (B2B), through affiliated Chambers, third
party
• Business support services – administrative, business plans, copying, documentation
development, Notary Public services, strategic plans
• Business certification and compliance services – support at Federal, State, local levels
• Directory services - online and print directory listing
• Development and Training Resources
• Events - CCMERA branded, affiliate branded
• Finance support services - credit enhancement, loan packaging, linkage with lenders
• Help desk - business 411 information line
• Human Resources – consulting, job descriptions, staffing
• Information Technology – affiliate services
• Legislative advocacy – strategic engagement at Federal, State, County, and City levels
• Marketing services – consultation, graphic design, social media support
• Mentoring - linkage with Chambers, SCORE, pairing with successful business mentors
• Networking - proprietary directory, B2B, business to consumer (B2C), Public-Private
• Research Services – empirical data gathering, information data base, targeted
research
• Virtual Resource Portal – exclusive for affiliates only, value added resource reservoir
• Workforce development – interns, students

5. PURPOSE
CCMERA’s mission is to bridge the gaps between entrepreneurs,
innovators, small businesses and key supply chain decision
makers. Our vision is to generate new “waves” of successful
business entities that flourish throughout under served
communities of color in the coastal region, while increasing
the quantity, quality, and revenue generating opportunities for
affiliate members.

6. PROCESS
CCMERA is your small business resource center, connecting you to a vast
network of qualified:
• Financial specialists
• Researchers
• Diversity suppliers
• Procurement professionals
• Business developers
• Marketing specialists
• Human resource experts

7. PEOPLE
• CCMERA intellectual capital
provides outstanding economic,
social, and cultural benefits
• CCMERA helps affiliates take advantage
of opportunities and speeds up their
business growth
“Our intent is to connect the resources
that drive wealth and success to
enterprises within the Central Coast
region and beyond. Our purpose is to
create synergies of information,
knowledge, and resources both
financial and human, through the
power of networking for excellence in
building wealth and financial security
in economic development.”
— Byron K. Ward, President / CEO

8. STAKEHOLDERS
• Affiliate Members
• Federal, State, County, and local Agencies
• Business Related Organizations
• Financial Institutions and Lenders
• Central Coast Communities
• Customers
• 8(a), WOSB, SDVOSBC, HUBZone
CONTACT
Byron K. Ward, President / CEO
(805) 984-2468
bward@ccmera.org
www.ccmera.org

9. NETWORK*
• California Black Chamber of Commerce
• Ashley Furniture
• Attain Design and Marketing Communications
• Simi Valley Ford
• Myers, Widders, Gibson, Jones, & Feingold, LLP
• Mercedes Benz of Oxnard
• Oxnard College
• Andrews & Associates CPA
• Tri Country Sentry
• Walmart
• ADP
• Union Bank
• Ventura County Credit Union
• Navy Federal Credit Union
• Comfort Realty
• Arnold Samuel and Associates
• CBL Enterprise, Inc.
• State Farm Insurance
• Farmers Insurance
• Business Resource Group
• Saalex Solutions, Inc.
• AEGIR Systems
• Visual Concepts, LLC
• Action Human Technologies, LLC
• McKenzie Systems Engineering Associates
• Santa Barbara Applied Research
• Kan-B Financial Service
• St. John’s Regional Medical Center
• NIKE
• Home Box Office (HBO)
• Washington Post
• Hampton University
• Norfolk State University
• California State University Channel Islands
• University of Southern California
• Charles R. Drew Medical University
• Susan G. Komen Foundation
• Pepsi-Cola
• MLK Memorial Foundation
• Simon & Schuster
• NAACP
• US Dept of Housing and Urban Development
• Los Angeles County Office of Women’s Health
• Howard Hughes Medial Institute
• West LA College
• California African American Museum
• The Diva Foundation
• The Holly-Rod Foundation
• ATLASEA
• Charles R. Drew Medical University
(*PARTIAL LIST)