Shawmut seeks to continue to cultivate a leading presence in the business ecosystem surrounding Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprises, Local Small-Business Enterprises, and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises collectively referred to as MWLBEs, particularly with the firm’s New York Metro Region. Karp Strategies is devising strategies to grow new and sustain existing MWLBE partnerships, to better position Shawmut within the MWLBE sphere so they may develop a stronger market position with regard to reaching MWLBE participation on key projects and proposals, and to identify opportunities for Shawmut to engage with a variety of business enterprises during and beyond the current public health and socio-economic crisis.