About BDAG

Business Development Assistance Group, Inc. (BDAG) is a not-for-profit, 501(c)-(3) organization. Incorporated in the State of Virginia in 1992, the mission of BDAG is to help small and minority-owned businesses become more viable in American economic life through educational programs, workshops and training seminars.

BDAG encourages these small businesses, especially those owned by language minorities or new immigrants, to participate in both economic and community developmental activities so they can merge quickly and effectively into the economic mainstream.

BDAG has been recognized as a primary resource for small and minority businesses by the Fairfax Chamber of Commerce, the Arlingotn County Government Economic Development Department.

In 1992, 1993 and 1994, BDAG was the principal organizer of the "Minority Business Opportunity Fair" in Arlington, where more than 800 people attended the fair each year. As a result, BDAG was awarded the prestigious "Friend of Small Businesses Award" by the Arlington Chamber of Commerce.

About ECNA

With the opening of the Entrepreneurship Center for New Americans (ECNA), BDAG is now able to provide its service to a much wider geographical area in the state of Virginia.

The purpose of the Entrepreneurship Center for New Americans is to offer business counseling, technical training as well as business mentoring and networking for the New Americans who wish to start, stay in, and expand their own businesses in Northern Virginia.

The goal of the Center is to maximize the entrepreneurship potential of these immigrants by providing them with economic opportunities and American business knowledge and tools, so they can quickly become self sufficient and contributing taxpayers within the county, state and nation.