16 | September 2020
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INTIMES TIMES OF CRISIS IN OF CR leaders lead and NAMC By Subcontractors USA News Provider
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he National Association of Minority Contractors Greater Houston Chapter has a mission to prepare and position deserving minority and female-owned businesses to win contracts, increase branding visibility and expand their client base through relationship development opportunities, and their efforts to complete this mission have not waivered despite the global COVID-19 pandemic. NAMC Houston has gone 100% virtual in all their communication methods. Since March, they have created and sent out over 15 webinars and now conduct all meetings on Microsoft Teams platform. With tech help from MCA Communications, NAMC Houston was able to pivot to 100% virtual in just two weeks. Some of their virtual feats
include spotlighting four of their major corporate sponsors through a Microsoft Teams presentation to members and “lunch and learn” segments conducted by Roger Pombrel, NAMC Houston Education Chair. They have adapted extremely well through this COVID-19 pandemic and have actually been able to improve communication efforts. “We no longer have to rush through traffic to get to our meeting and presentation on time and can attend several virtual presentations in a day,” NAMC Houston Executive Director Abel Garcia said. “We also have almost 100% attendance at all our NAMC meetings.” Membership growth is also exploding. From an impressive 50% in new membership increase in 2019, NAMC Houston will match that number by the end of September 2020 and expect around a 40% 2020 increase in new membership in 2020 over 2019.
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The amount of construction is so great in the Greater Houston market that we need to continue to grow our minority crafts and companies to stay up with that 2020 and beyond growth,” Garcia said. “Small companies need the advocation, education and business opportunities NAMC brings to the table to be a growing service to that minority sector.
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