SwMWBE Definitions

Diversity Definitions and Certifications

  • African American Owned Business
  • Business that is at least 51% owned and operated by an African American individual(s) with U.S. citizenship. African Americans have origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa.

  • Asian American Owned Business

Business that is at least 51% owned and operated by an Asian American individual(s) with U.S. citizenship. Asian is the ethnicity of an individual whose origins are from China, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Philippines, Samoa, Guam, US Trust Territories of the Pacific or the Northern Mariana, India, Pakistan or Bangladesh.

  • Hispanic Owned Business
  • Business that is at least 51% owned and operated by a Hispanic American individual(s) with U.S. citizenship. Hispanic is the ethnicity of an individual whose origins are from any of the Spanish-speaking areas of Latin America or the following regions: Mexico, Central America, South America and the Caribbean Basin.

  • Native American Owned Business

Business that is at least 51% owned and operated by a Native American individual(s) with U.S. citizenship. Native American is the ethnicity of an individual whose origins are from American Indians, Aleuts, Eskimos and Native Hawaiians.

  • Woman Owned Business

Business that is at least 51% owned and operated by a female individual(s) with U.S. citizenship.


For more information contact:
Pamela Y. McMellon-Wells

Supplier Diversity Manager

Phone: 856/225-6140
E-mail: pmcwells@camden.rutgers.edu


Last Updated: March 20, 2008

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