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Expanded list of black-owned businesses  in many categories

April, 2021  We have an updated list of black-owned businesses in Portland.  While  the protests have died down, things haven't changed in the inequities in our community and nation.  If you are able, please consider using  some of your stimulus dollars or the money you have saved this year by not eating out and reach out to some of the businesses in the link below.   

https://www.websiteplanet.com/blog/support-black-owned-businesses/


​Black-led Organizations and Black-owned Businesses in Portland

Black-led Organizations

  • African American Alliance for Home Ownership
  • African American Health Coalition, Inc.
  • African Women Coalition
  • African Youth and Community Organization (AYCO)
  • The Albina Vision Trust
  • BEAM Village - Empowering Black Youth
  • BeyondBlack 
  • Black Feminist Summer School: $BFKBFSSFund on CashApp
  • Black Food Sovereignty Coalition / Black Futures Farm
  • Black Lives Matter PDX / PayPal: blacklivesmatterpdx@gmail.com 
  • Black Parent Initiative
  • Black Resilience Fund
  • Black United Fund of Oregon
  • Brown Girl Rise
  • Care Not Cops Portland
  • Coalition of Communities of Color
  • Critical Resistance Portland
  • Don't Shoot PDX
  • Ebony Collective CDC: PayPal info@ebonycollectivecdc.org
  • Ethiopian and Eritrean Community Resource Center
  • Going Home II
  • Humans of Color Movement Alliance
  • JOIN — Connecting the street to a home
  • KairosPDX
  • Oregon Black Pioneers
  • Ori Gallery
  • PDX Bail Fund
  • Portland African American Leadership Forum
  • Portland Community Reinvestment Initiatives (PCRI)
  • Portland NAACP
  • Red Door Project
  • Right to Health
  • Q Center
  • Self Enhancement, Inc.
  • Umoja Kijana Shujaa / enlace
  • UniteOregon
  • Urban League of Portland
  • WomenFirst Transition and Referral Center

Here are Black-owned commercial print shops that we encourage you to support and where you can purchase social justice signs and t-shirts, among other things:
  • Good Green
  • Mimi's Fresh Tees
  • Taylored Tees
  • Umbrella Screenprinting

You can also support black-owned businesses in the Portland-Metro area (everything from movers to restaurants to clothing stores). The list was put together by SEI (Self Enhancement Inc.), which is a great local non-profit that provides an array of services and enrichment primarily for black youth & families.  

https://www.selfenhancement.org/black-business

The Willamette Week also came out with this list of local black owned restaurants: 

https://www.wweek.com/restaurants/2020/06/02/these-black-owned-portland-restaurants-are-offering-takeout-and-delivery/

You can find more listings of businesses owned by people of color at Portland in Color and Mercatus.

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  • Upcoming meeting
    • Zoom instructions
  • get involved
    • Ways to get involved
    • Neighborhood Leaders
    • Work for climate change
    • Work with the legislature
  • Black Lives / Diversity matters
    • Support BLM Businesses and Organizations
    • Entrepreneurs of color
    • Rep. Bynum - How oppression happens in Oregon
    • NDTC - How to support BLM
  • past meetings
    • 12/1/22 Dana Haynes
    • September 2022 - Hear from our local candidates
    • August 2022 - Standing up to the Supreme Court
    • July 7: Our Featured Speaker - you
    • June 2, 2022 How do we govern well?
    • April 2022 - CD6 forum
    • March 3, 2022 - Washington County candidates
    • February 2022 - K-12 public education: Build Back Better
    • January 2022 Healthcare
    • past meeting notes
    • July 2 meeting
    • MAY 7 - FESTIVAL OF THE LAST MINUTE
    • May 2021 - Eitan Hersh - Politics is for Power
  • covid -19 resources
    • Making a difference locally
    • School ventilation
    • Risk reduction for school return
    • local businesses to support
    • CoVid-19 resources
  • WHO WE ARE
    • Links
    • Purpose