Celebrating Black Business Month

August is National Black Business Month!

Join us in supporting local Black entrepreneurs by directing your purchases to Black-owned small businesses. Also, don’t miss Bay Area Black Restaurant Week from August 20-29!

Here are links to directories and resources to get you started: 

Small Business Directories:

• Bay Area Black Market

• Bay Area Organization of Black Owned Businesses (BAOBOB)

• Official Black Wall Street

• San Francisco Chronicle’s “Black-owned restaurants, pop-ups, and caterers in the Bay Area”

• WeBuyBlack Online Marketplace

• Directory of Black-Owned Businesses in San Francisco (compiled by the San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development)

• Oakland African American Chamber of Commerce (OAACC) Member Directory

• Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center’s Black-Owned Business Clients

• Pacific Community Ventures’s Black-Owned Business Clients

• FiveFifths Online Black Business Directory

• San Francisco Bay Area Black Business (SFB³) Directory

Small Business Resources:

• National Association of Black Accountants - San Francisco Chapter

• Oakland African American Chamber of Commerce (OAACC)

• San Francisco African American Chamber of Commerce

As a nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), Working Solutions has a mission to provide affordable and safe capital to support the dreams of those who have been marginalized due to race or gender.

We are committed to supporting Black entrepreneurs, most directly by implementing the goals that we created through our five-year strategic plan. These goals include deploying 60% of our capital to communities of color each year, including 20% to Black-owned businesses.