Minority Business Enterprise Investors and Training in Boston.
Some larger companies pick and choose minority owned MBE certified firms carefully for collaborative vendor, bidder subcontract supply relationships.
A company building a 200 room complex in the Back Bay section called into our concierge desk for a referral to minority suppliers who offer Staples-like products.The mayor's office has created a resource site for young entrepreneurs named ONEn3 Boston. The site maintains an event calendar and showcases new companies and their business plans.Sun Life Financial is offering another round of $50,000 grants to Boston non-profits in 2011. See this page for more info.
The Greater New England Minority Business Supplier Development Council (GNEMSDC) advocates for minority business contracting. The mission of www.gnemsdc.org is to foster business relationships with certified Minority Business Enterprises (MBEs) and corporate members.
Olives Beauty Salon specializes in hair care for men, women and all ages. Salon hours are 10A - 4P Tues. and Wed., 10-6 Thurs., 10-5P on Friday, 9 to 2 on Sat. Stylists are available Sundays from 10A to 2PM.
Appointments are desirable. But if you're not running on a tight schedule, drop in Tuesdays and Thursday during opening hours.
Also branded Olives Universal Textures, the business has been serving the hair conditioning needs of people for decades. Student rates are available. For more information visit http://www.olivestextures.com or call 617.202.5772. The shop is located at 369 Washington Street, Brighton, Ma. 02135.
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 Supply Chains
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.
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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.
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the self-made black millionaire's business story
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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 ROXBURY.TV. Looking straight at the camera, Dr. Pinkett explains his secrets to success.
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
Government Contracting 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.
Greenhorn Connect is a popular Boston online hub of entrepreneurs, events and organizations.
The local GrabaDesk.com company will find desk space in a shared office you can use outside your home.
Minority Business Enterprise
Olives Beauty Salon specializes in hair care for men, women and all ages. Salon hours are 10A - 4P Tues. and Wed., 10-6 Thurs., 10-5P on Friday, 9 to 2 on Sat. Stylists are available Sundays from 10A to 2PM.
Appointments are desirable. But if you're not running on a tight schedule, drop in Tuesdays and Thursday during opening hours.
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!