17 Facts About NGLCC

NGLCC was co-founded in 2002 by Justin G Nelson and Chance Mitchell.

Nelson has served as president since the NGLCC was founded, and Mitchell has served as CEO over the same period.

NGLCC provides direct links between businesses, corporate partners, government organizations and other community groups that support LGBT economic opportunity.

In early 2004, NGLCC created a "diversity certification program", making the organization a national third-party certifying body for LGBT-owned businesses.

NGLCC has a network of more than 50 local, state, and international affiliate LGBT chambers of commerce, and serves to represent their economic interests and opportunities.

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In 2017 NGLCC released its first proprietary data, the "America's LGBT Economy Report".

In 2018 and early 2019, as the leading public policy organization on behalf of LGBT-owned businesses, NGLCC won the public sector contracting inclusion of certified LGBTBEs in Orlando, Florida; Nashville, Tennessee; Baltimore, Maryland; Jersey City, New Jersey; and Hoboken, New Jersey, while advancing statewide bills in New York and New Jersey.

Since 2004, the NGLCC has offered certification to businesses owned by LGBT people.

Every summer the NGLCC holds the NGLCC International Business and Leadership Conference.

In 2010 the NGLCC began international work, eventually developing into NGLCC Global in 2013.

In November 2011 the NGLCC unveiled a new Supplier Innovation Center covering a second floor in the building that houses their offices.

The NGLCC is offering scholarships to LGBT business owners in partnership with the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, to be held at the Supplier Innovation Center.

In 2016, NGLCC helped introduce the New York State Supplier Diversity Act to intentionally include LGBT, disability, and veteran owned firms in New York State contracting opportunities.

In 2011, the NGLCC appointed a full-time position to oversee relations with affiliated chambers.

NGLCC stopped national membership options in 2011, and all membership is routed through affiliated chambers.

In 2010 the NGLCC hosted the first LGBT trade mission to Argentina, joined by U S LGBT businesses.

In October 2011 the NGLCC traveled to Bogota to lay the groundwork for a future U S certified LGBT trade mission to Colombia.