DIVERSITY 

Diversity & Culture Award presented to M. Davis

Diversity Committee Chair Tricia Clendening (left) and ABC Delaware 2011 Chairman Joe Swarter present 
Peggy Del Fabbro of M. Davis with the Diversity & Culture in the Workplace Award.



M. Davis was presented with the Diversity & Culture in the Workplace Award, which recognizes the company that best represents embracing diversity in all aspects of their organization. The award is presented for the CEO’s commitment and involvement in diversity and how their employees are motivated towards enhancing diversity in their organization; commitment of how people are recruited, developed and promoted; and demonstrations of how effectively and what mechanisms the company utilizes to work with diverse organizations in addition to their corporate social responsibility. 

Pettinaro Construction wins Diversity Utilization Award


 Diversity Committee Chair Tricia Clendening (left) and ABC Delaware 2011 Chairman Joe Swarter (right) present 
Steve Lex and Andrea Finerosky of Pettinaro Construction with the Diversity Utilization Award.

 
Pettinaro Construction was presented the 2011 Diversity Utilization Award. This award best defines the company that utilizes diverse suppliers and has a significant percentage of their procurement budgets spent with diverse suppliers. The recipient of the award continuously goes above and beyond to support MBE, WBE and DBE businesses as a normal business practice. The company has coached, mentored, and educated organizations so that they would have the opportunity to be successful bidders on Pettinaro Construction projects.


 

Diversity Definitions

MBE—Minority Business Enterprise—includes male and female business owners who are African American, Hispanic, Native American, Native Alaskan, Asian Pacific, Subcontinent Asian Americans (East Indian), and members of other groups designated from time to time by the SBA. Minority business status requires 51% or greater ownership by minorities as well as management and control of daily business operations, with experience or technical expertise directly related to the primary product or service of the business. 

WBE—Women’s Business Enterprise—non-minority women who own 51% or more of the business as well as management, control and technical expertise as stated above.

WWBE—an unofficial term occasionally used to differentiate between minority women and white women business enterprises (WWBE). Minority women are most often designated as MBEs (or SDBs or DBEs).

SDB—Small Disadvantaged Business—Small refers to size as determined by gross dollar revenue (variable according to SIC Code) and number of employees (fewer than 500). Disadvantaged refers to minority status and usually does not include white women.

HUB—Historically Under-utilized Businesses—coined in 1990 by the President’s Commission on Minority Business Development as a more accurate, less negative term than disadvantaged.   

DBE—Disadvantaged Business Enterprise—usually refers to minority ownership, sometimes includes disabled and residents of economically depressed areas; depending on governing legislation, may or may not include white women. Five federal agencies do include non-minority women as part of their DBE definition: Department of Transportation, Department of Energy, NASA, RTC (Resolution Trust Corporation) and USAID (Agency for International Development.)

DVBE or SDV—Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise or Service Disabled Veteran—State of California contracts include goals for disabled veteran owned businesses. Proposition 209 (a California voter’s initiative) eliminated goals on State of California contracts for minority-owned businesses and women-owned businesses.


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