Series 4. Philadelphia Business Services Center Records, 1981-1986.

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Series 4. Philadelphia Business Services Center Records, 1981-1986.

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These records pertain to activities of the Spanish Merchants Association Business Development Office staff who went to work for the Philadelphia Business Services Center from 1981-86, when SMA lost funding from the U.S. Department of Commerce Minority Business Development Administration to provide direct business assistance to clients. The Philadelphia Business Services Center was a non-profit corporation established under a grant from the Minority Business Development Agency by Leevy, Redcross & Co., a certified public accounting firm, to focus on minority entrepreneurs who were potential business owners. The files contain reports, descriptions of services, and brochures concerning the Business Services Center and its programs including the Philadelphia Minority Business Development Center and the Business Planning Group.

0.75 ln. ft.

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spa,

Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies Library

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Leevy, Redcross & Company.

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United States. Minority Business Development Agency

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Philadelphia Minority Business Development Center.

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Spanish Merchants Association of Philadelphia

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The Spanish Merchants Company was established by the Spanish Merchants Association of Philadelphia to distribute milk to Spanish-speaking grocers. It was the first minority milk cooperative to act as a subdealer with its own license not subject to price controls of the Pennsylvania Milk Marketing Board. Profits were paid out to shareholders in quarterly dividends. From the description of Series 2. Spanish Merchants Company Records, 1973-1984. (Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies Libra...