IDOT Hosting Series of Workshops for Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program

 

Springfield, Ill. – The Illinois Department of Transportation is hosting free virtual workshops as part of its continuing Building Blocks of Success series for Disadvantaged Business Enterprise firms interested in strengthening their skills, growing their business, and bidding on state projects. New and existing DBEs, as well as firms interested in becoming certified in the program, are invited.

November workshop dates and topics include: 

  • Nov. 1, 10 a.m. to noon: Expansion of Work Category Codes 

  • Nov. 3, 10 a.m. to noon: QuickBooks Part 1 – Setting up your company 

  • Nov. 8, 10 a.m. to noon: Accounting Best Practices & Financial Reporting 

  • Nov. 10, 10 a.m. to noon: Improving Your Personal & Business (D&B) Credit Score

  • Nov. 15, 10 a.m. to noon: Navigating the IDOT Website (Basic) 

  • Nov. 17, 10 a.m. to noon: Navigating the IDOT Website (Advanced) 

  • Nov. 29, 10 a.m. to noon: QuickBooks Part 2 – Performing Day to Day, Part 2

Future topics covered will include estimating and bidding, insurance, bonding, risk management, steps needed to be certified as DBE firm and more.

Building Blocks of Success will continue through April. Workshop information, including dates and times, is available through Eventbrite at bit.ly/DBEworkshops. Advance registration is required.

Questions can be directed to IDOT’s DBE Resource Center at (312) 939-1100.

As part of Governor Pritzker’s historic and bipartisan Rebuild Illinois, IDOT is helping to deliver the largest capital program in state history. In implementing Rebuild Illinois, IDOT strives to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion, including contracting and workforce participation.

Administered by IDOT, the DBE program provides minorities, women, and other eligible small businesses opportunities to participate in highway, transit, and airport contracts that are federally and state funded. For more information on becoming a certified DBE and learning more about IDOT resources that are available, visit www.idot.illinois.gov/dbe.

 
Andrea Garcia