A pair of pilot programs aim to make it easier for San Diego County small businesses and nonprofits to prepare for, navigate and land government contracts.

One pilot is the Compliance, Operations, and Readiness Education (CORE) program, which helps businesses with bookkeeping and compliance support. The other is the Bonding and Underwriting Insurance for Local Development (BUILD) program, which helps participants get ready to apply for contracts, access bonding and insurance and navigate requests for proposals and government contracts.

The larger goal for both is to boost economic mobility for these entities, with a target of supporting more than 100 small businesses and nonprofits over the next year.

“The development of pilot programs like CORE and BUILD is a direct result of our commi

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