Minority Business Enterprise
and Non Profit Financing. growing with good ideas
This just in 8/23/10, $10K in cash and in-kind services...
NBC Affiliates and StayClassy Team Up to Reward Nonprofit Organizations.
The CLASSY Awards is an awards competition recognizing the top philanthropic achievements by charities, businesses, and individuals in eight major cities nationwide: apply in Boston. The deadline is 9/17/2010.
On August 19, 2010 - Sun Life Financial announced Boston Rising Star Award winners. Big Thanks to organizations in Boston who responded to our advisory to submit a competitive response to the grant RFP. $165,000 has been awarded to three Boston organizations and students. See who won. Congrats to all!
The Massachusetts community is familar with The Boston Foundation.This page for Grant Seekers is kept up to date by the Boston Foundation. You will see new grant guidelines, a schedule of information sources and the information TBF requires from those seeking grants when you click it.
Boston Minority Business Enterprise
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ACCION offers financial service to small, very small and growing businesses. ACCION can help “bridge” the gap for business owners when the owner might need capital. ACCION provides loan and business consulting at free to reasonable participation charges.
AboutBlackBoston.com knows ACCION produces great workshops and offers financing and educational programs that can work well with your business situation. Get more info today about ACCION at the download center.TechStars.org/BOSTON offers up to $18,000 in seed capital to growing startup companies.
Another way to Fund your Business Idea
For Black business enterprises with new ideas that have yet to see the light of day, we have found an investor group who will fund your business idea. They are seeking practical, profitable plans. Check out
YCombinator (YC)
Government
Prediction: Boston area Minority Business Certification programs will receive a burst of activity from construction and industrial engineering firms during the Age of Obama.
This link is SOMWBA's business enterprise application for those seeking DBE certification from the State of Massachusetts. COMPASS is the B to B network run by a Massachusetts agency buying over $5 billion a year in contract goods and services from vendors.
The www.fbo.gov web site list about 40,000 open Federal Jobs on any given day along with links to government sites where the Obama administration reports on who is getting stimulus funding in Massachusetts.
Around town
Hey! I'll bet we can help you land a new business customer by making a referral.
Recent referrals were for a Boston College student seeking a black barber shop; a homeowner with a flooded out basement needing a large trash removal bin; a person seeking a black landscaping company; a condo association member who called to get snow removal contract quotes for a season of work; a union member in town along with 10,000 others at the Hynes auditorium who was seeking to tour a black shopping district for restaurants, fashion, gifts, etc., etc.
Our Personal 311 Service could help you make money or land a new job. Select this link for ordering.
the self-made black millionaire's business story
^^ play buttonForty students from a University in Amsterdam visited Boston to continue studying the African American influence on Boston's political history and they wanted contacts in town. There are some solid requests for business services coming in and we'd love to refer them one by one. PLEASE CLICK 311 to submit info about a minority owned business enterprise you know. Thanks!
Meet Dr. Randall Pinkett, the first African-American business owner to win Donald Trump's "The Apprentice IV" television show entrepreneur's contest, compliments of a W3 Media network // smallwall.net.
Looking straight at the camera, Dr. Pinkett explains his secrets to success.
Governor Deval Patrick's proposal to inject $1 billion into medical research and biotechnology could also be more flexible and cost effective than competing plans in California and other states. Interested? Cool! -->click this to discover how you can be part of the new Massachusetts Biotech evolution.
National Black MBA Association, Strategic Financial Partners, and the Metro-West Black Data Processing Association are actively networking in Boston. inquire!
The Black Pages of New England directory lists businesses owned by blacks, minorities and women owned business enterprises. (617)-298-3000
You will sit in antique chairs from the 1920's. The floor you walk on is solid oak. The space has a chess table for kids waiting. For some of them, it is their first time ever playing chess in a BARBER SHOP. His environment is family friendly. He spent days on a farm in Jamaica cutting hair styles for free. He learned to cut hair from barbers in Kingston at age 13. His shop has a history. During the "day" Sammie Davis Jr. and Malcom X came in for a cut!
This business is owned by Doyen. Since 1998, he has owned A-1 Barbers, 777 Tremont Street, 617.247.7337 map it at the corner of Tremont and Massachusetts Avenue.
Free Black Fine Art Screensavers for Windows Click Here for more information About Black Boston P O Box 300701 Jamaica Plain, MA. 02130. Phone 617.942.1301
Meet Sonja Ebron, social entrepreneur and CEO of blackEnergy, a national distributor of energy conservation products and an organizer of energy buying groups that help people use their utility bills to support Black communities.
If you seek investors, venture capitalists and folks you don't know but may need them anyway, we'd like to hear from you. Use this link to connect.Something Blue:
a Don Dodge piece Three kinds of companies:"VC and Angel investors put prospective companies in three buckets, and they only invest in one of them.
Entrepreneurs looking for money should think about where they fit.
The three types of companies are; Lifestyle, Cash Flow, and High Growth. When companies are just starting out it is sometimes not clear which category they will fall into."
Dodge says "this is why investors spend a lot of time studying market size data and asking questions about customer scenarios."
Don Dodge is a veteran of five start-ups including Forte Software, AltaVista, Napster, Bowstreet, and Groove Networks. Don is currently Director of Business Development for Microsoft's Emerging Business Team. He writes a daily blog, Don Dodge on the Next Big Thing.
About ICE InnerCity Entrepreneurs, Inc. is ICE - an organization for minority business owners interested in development and investment. STATE CONTRACTORS
The state office of SOMWBA certifies companies as woman owned, minority or disadvantaged business enterprises. We explain what a DBE, MBE and a W/MBE type certification means. Click here. to discover more about minority firms in Massachusetts.
400,000 African Americans visited Massachusetts (in 2003). The busiest months were April - September and said this report.
Minority Business Enterprise
Forty students from a University in Amsterdam visited Boston to continue studying the African American influence on Boston's political history and they wanted contacts in town. There are some solid requests for business services coming in and we'd love to refer them one by one. PLEASE CLICK 
You will sit in antique chairs from the 1920's. The floor you walk on is solid oak. The space has a chess table for kids waiting. For some of them, it is their first time ever playing chess in a BARBER SHOP. His environment is family friendly. He spent days on a farm in Jamaica cutting hair styles for free. He learned to cut hair from barbers in Kingston at age 13. His shop has a history. During the "day" Sammie Davis Jr. and Malcom X came in for a cut!
