{"id":486,"date":"2025-02-06T12:47:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T17:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sw.edu\/apex\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=486"},"modified":"2025-02-06T12:47:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T17:47:56","slug":"swam-certification-2","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/sw.edu\/apex\/event\/swam-certification-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SWaM Certification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Small, Women-owned, and Minority-owned Business (SWaM) certification program is a state program of the Commonwealth of Virginia, whose purpose is to enhance procurement opportunities for SWaM businesses participating in state-funded projects.<\/p>\n<p>SWaM certification is available in the following designations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Small<\/li>\n<li>Micro<\/li>\n<li>Woman-Owned<\/li>\n<li>Minority-Owned<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Presenter: Kathy Deacon, Business Service Manager<\/p>\n<p>Southwest Virginia<\/p>\n<p>Virginia Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity (SBSD)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Small, Women-owned, and Minority-owned Business (SWaM) certification program is a state program of the Commonwealth of Virginia, whose purpose is to enhance procurement opportunities for SWaM businesses participating in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[2],"class_list":["post-486","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-apex","cat_apex"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.11 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SWaM Certification - SWCC APEX Accelerator<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sw.edu\/apex\/event\/swam-certification-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SWaM Certification\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Small, Women-owned, and Minority-owned Business (SWaM) certification program is a state program of the Commonwealth of Virginia, whose purpose is to enhance procurement opportunities for SWaM businesses participating in\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/sw.edu\/apex\/event\/swam-certification-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SWCC APEX Accelerator\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sw.edu\/apex\/event\/swam-certification-2\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sw.edu\/apex\/event\/swam-certification-2\/\",\"name\":\"SWaM Certification - SWCC APEX Accelerator\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sw.edu\/apex\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2025-02-06T17:47:56+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sw.edu\/apex\/event\/swam-certification-2\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/sw.edu\/apex\/event\/swam-certification-2\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sw.edu\/apex\/event\/swam-certification-2\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/sw.edu\/apex\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Events\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/sw.edu\/apex\/events\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"SWaM Certification\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sw.edu\/apex\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sw.edu\/apex\/\",\"name\":\"SWCC APEX Accelerator\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/sw.edu\/apex\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"SWaM Certification - SWCC APEX Accelerator","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/sw.edu\/apex\/event\/swam-certification-2\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"SWaM Certification","og_description":"The Small, Women-owned, and Minority-owned Business (SWaM) certification program is a state program of the Commonwealth of Virginia, whose purpose is to enhance procurement opportunities for SWaM businesses participating in","og_url":"https:\/\/sw.edu\/apex\/event\/swam-certification-2\/","og_site_name":"SWCC APEX Accelerator","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/sw.edu\/apex\/event\/swam-certification-2\/","url":"https:\/\/sw.edu\/apex\/event\/swam-certification-2\/","name":"SWaM Certification - SWCC APEX Accelerator","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/sw.edu\/apex\/#website"},"datePublished":"2025-02-06T17:47:56+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/sw.edu\/apex\/event\/swam-certification-2\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/sw.edu\/apex\/event\/swam-certification-2\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/sw.edu\/apex\/event\/swam-certification-2\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/sw.edu\/apex\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Events","item":"https:\/\/sw.edu\/apex\/events\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"SWaM Certification"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/sw.edu\/apex\/#website","url":"https:\/\/sw.edu\/apex\/","name":"SWCC APEX Accelerator","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/sw.edu\/apex\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sw.edu\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sw.edu\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sw.edu\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sw.edu\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sw.edu\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/sw.edu\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/486\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sw.edu\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sw.edu\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sw.edu\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}