The U.S. Census Bureau’s survey in the 1995 report on US Firms Establishments, Employment, Annual Payroll, and Estimated Receipts in Industrial Division and Enterprise Employment states that the number of minority-owned small businesses grew at a 62 percent rate, while the total number of firms grew 26 percent from 1987 to 1992. Hence, with all of demands and limitations encountered to sustain day-to-day operations, nonprofits and small businesses continue to play a significant role in impacting the economic stabilization of our country. Nevertheless, small businesses and nonprofits in distressed urban and rural areas face numerous challenges in the competing mainstream business arena. Often, they are confronted with an outsider’s lack of up-to-date, market information about the local business community and its resources; unfamiliarity with business and political protocols, relationship development and corporate culture; preconceived stereotypes of businesses, workers and/or consumers in disadvantaged areas and the limitations of potential isolation from mainstream business networks, federal contacts and funding streams. As the social, economic and political environment facing nonprofit and businesses changes, DJ Williams and Associates, LLC takes a comprehensive approach to help our clients determine realistic projections and reach desired outcomes. Each client begins with a basic, four-point foundation designed to clarify their goals, potential outcomes, direction, timelines and implementation.