Meda – Metropolitan Economic Development Association

MEDA was founded in 1971 with the mission of Helping BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) Entrepreneurs Succeed. Our founders believed wealth creation is key to creating racial economic equity and that successful BIPOC Entrepreneurship is the clearest path to creating wealth. MEDA fulfills its mission by providing integrated, wrap-around services in the three areas all entrepreneurs need to succeed: Consulting, Capital, and Connection. In our first fifty years, MEDA has served more than 30,000 BIPOC Entrepreneurs.

The more than 30,000 BIPOC-owned businesses that have grown and thrived as MEDA’s clients and the tens of thousands of jobs MEDA has helped these businesses create and maintain are substantial evidence that proves MEDA’s theory of change: Wealth creation is an effective antidote to economic inequities, and successful BIPOC entrepreneurship is the most effective tool for building generational wealth and remains integral to creating the world we want.