Power Forward Small Business Grant

As a business services and consulting agency, Black Owned Bos. (pronounced "boss") creates spaces to amplify, incubate, and support. Black Owned Bos. officially launched in March 2019 as a platform and resource to highlight and lift Black owned businesses, places, spaces and the people moving the culture forward.

Boston Professional Sound Inc. is a full-service production company specializing in providing audio, video, lighting, and interactive technology solutions to the hospitality industry, corporate events, trade shows, and other live events in Boston and surrounding areas. Our team’s long-trusted expertise in audio and visual technology allows us to serve clients in a variety of industries, from the planning stages all the way through to completion

Our job at Brown Suga is to bring creativity back into the community through the innovative, picturesque products we display. Our paperie strives to manufacture high quality products, to bring smiles and warm the hearts of those who receive our stationery products.

Brown and Coconut is a sister-owned and operated skin care company that is dedicated to crafting premium, plant-based formulas. Our passion for skin care is evident in every product we create, as we meticulously select each ingredient to ensure the highest quality and avoid any known irritants. Our unique blends of botanicals and clays are carefully crafted to deliver a luxurious and effective skin care experience that you won't find anywhere else.

As a small mental health practice founded and led by an LGBTQ woman of color, we are dedicated to creating a safe, welcoming, and affirming space where everyone feels understood and supported. At Connecting to Greatness, we offer a unique approach to therapy by utilizing counseling and coaching techniques. Experience the power of compassionate care that empowers you to thrive and live your most authentic life.

Americans are struggling to pay their debts, and savings are dwindling. Constant's software empowers borrowers to self-manage their loans and settle debts online, bypassing uncomfortable encounters with their bank or credit union.

Destiny African Market is a dual African grocery store and catering company offering the full African food experience through raw foods, ingredients, and specialty variety items. At Destiny, food is our love language and everyone is considered family. We're creating accessibility to African food by importing hard-to-find food products and satisfying the acquired tastes of the Black diaspora in Massachusetts and beyond!

Dr. Dee Dee Dynamo LLC is an education and wellness company dedicated to educating, elevating and empowering children to be the healthiest versions of themselves so that they can live a life without limits. Through diverse books, workshops and STEM based educational materials that focus on building resilience and positive mindset practices, Dr. Dee Dee Dynamo creates an effective vehicle for integrated learning and development .

Hair It Is Barbershop is a vibrant unisex salon based in Boston that originally opened for business in 1995. The business was founded by Neil Decoteau who hails from the island of Trinidad & Tobago. This Caribbean-based shop specializes in haircuts, shape-ups, designs, shaves, braids, and loc maintenance. Continuing the legacy, Danny Decoteau assumed ownership in 2011 and over the past decade continues to push the shop’s boundaries, invested in its growth.

Hillside Harvest is a Caribbean inspired sauce and condiment company, crafting delicious sauces that celebrate the Caribbean traditions of Flavor, Freshness, and Fun!

Lovie's Farm, a 13.5-acre family farm in Middletown, Connecticut, is expanding its offerings in Spring 2024 to include hemp production, along with its existing farm fresh eggs and local produce. Committed to fostering a community-oriented and inclusive environment, the farm provides opportunities for land leasing and farming education, with a focus on increasing access for marginalized communities.

Modern Connections brings people together by pushing the edges of visceral movement through collaboration, education and creating spaces for individual and collective reflection. We offer weekly low-cost public adult dance classes; host interdisciplinary workshops; cultivate partnerships with public, private, and government entities; and choreograph thought-provoking performances to create access to movement and cultivate belonging for people who may not consider themselves dancers.

Moms in Power is a transformative business dedicated to empowering women on their unique journey in motherhood. Through the use of healing affirmations, strategic goal-setting, and specialized tools, we focus on building self-confidence, fostering self-development, and renewing faith within women. Our mission is to create a supportive community that enables women to navigate the challenges of motherhood with strength and resilience, ultimately revealing and restoring their power.

MoonRock Enterprises is a trucking company located in Rhode Island. We operate Regionally and Nationally transporting goods from manufacturers,warehouses to different facilities. As a multi-lingual company, with fluency in Spanish, Portuguese, Cape Verde creole,our goal is to grow providing excellent and reliable services to our customers as we support minority owned trucking companies that have difficulty navigating different aspects of the transportation industry, due to language or ability to find freight services to keep their business compliant and thriving.

Salvaged Roots Hair and Beauty, Inc. is a natural hair salon and beauty brand founded by Shanita Clarke. The beautiful flagship salon is in the heart of Dorchester, Ma and provides beyond quality service, ambiance, and aesthetic to the people of the community. Artisan made Salvaged Roots products are sold both in salon and online, including the best-selling Revive and Crown Oils, Whipped Body Butter and Loc Bombs™.

Sweet Teez Bakery, started in 2016 by a local mom in the Dorchester area, Teresa Thompson Maynard grew up in Codman Square where she is now raising her own children. Growing up with various food allergies and now raising kids with the same allergies the she realized a simple peanut can make the search for a good dessert near impossible. After purchasing countless baked goods and worrying about the ingredients, Teresa set out to open a bakery in order to meet her customers nut-free needs and delight their taste buds.

Skilled real estate agent, author, mother, and advocate, Tayla Andre is a decorated professional across many fields. She seeks to empower individuals and families with the education and confidence they need to successfully navigate the home buying process and create generational financial freedom. She lends her knowledge to broad audiences as well as her local Boston community through a myriad of inclusive materials aimed at educating, motivating, and emancipating listeners and readers from the fear of the unknown.

Anchor’d Inc is a premium home decor and organic wellness boutique that aids in the post-trauma care of victims and survivors of sex assault, domestic violence, and exploitation. Each purchase creates a post-trauma essentials care package for local and national womens safe homes. Owned and operated by survivor-philanthropist, author, and speaker Shabranae Patton and her husband Myron Patton.

Boston Innovation Outlet (BIOCo) is a creative solution company specializing in urban strategy. We create marketing campaigns, branding collateral, produce food demos and commercials, plan events (large&small), and youth empowerment programs.

Distinguish Catering is New England’s premiere boutique catering business providing an elevated farm-to-table afro-soul dining experience, delivering an exquisite flare to food culture with innovative flavors and cooking techniques from liberian culture infused with soul food cuisine and giving each customer a distinguished experience from palate and soul.

We are Hangry The Donut Bar! We are a home based bakery, serving up BOMB handmade gourmet donuts! We aren't just your average donut; we go from passion fruit all the way up to French toast or cookie butter donuts.

InnoPsych empowers leaders to cultivate emotionally safe work cultures that result in thriving organizations and people. Driven by a mission to disrupt racial inequities in mental health, we offer culturally responsive emotional wellbeing solutions that support organizations' recruitment and retention of diverse talent. While our signature programming focuses on emotional wellness, emotional intelligence, mindfulness, racial stress, and burnout, we offer a wide range of emotional wellbeing products and services.

Tracy Skelly is a mom, former educator, food justice advocate and the founder of The Little Cocoa Bean Company. Little Cocoa Bean Co. is a baby care and feeding business that aims to combat childhood hunger, malnutrition and food insecurity. They produce baby food inspired by global favorites with ingredients from around the world and they manufacture kits to help parents prepare their own fresh baby food at home. Little Cocoa Bean Co. is a social enterprise and their mission is to ensure that all families have access to fresh, whole foods because the consumption of nutritious meals in the first few years of life is a social determinant of health.

Live Like A Local Tours Boston is a series of walking tours that give people a chance to explore the food, history and culture of Boston's Roxbury, Dorchester and Jamaica Plain neighborhoods. Live Like A Local Tours makes an immediate impact by creating a business model that uses some of the revenue from providing tours to circulate dollars back into the neighborhood

In 2010, Cyndi Prince created LooHoo Wool Dryer Balls‚ aireusable, locally sourced, environmentally friendly dryer balls that gently soften clothes, reduce dry time and replace toxic dryer sheets. LooHoo has since expanded her celebrated product line to include all-natural pet toys and laundry bags and thoughtfully curated gift boxes.

TJ Douglas is the Founder of the Progressive Wine Company and The Urban Grape, a full-service beverage retail and e-commerce store, and gifting and events company based in Boston, MA. The Urban Grape’s proprietary Progressive Scale, developed by TJ, has created a welcoming atmosphere for wine lovers to learn about and shop for wine in an accessible, customer-service focused environment. Founded with the 2021 vintage, Progressive Wine Company is TJ's latest venture aimed at creating accessibility to, and inclusion in, the wine industry.

Opened in July 2020,R + J Texas Style BBQ started as a mobile smoker and evolving into a brick and mortar location. The Idea to open the restaurant came from her kidsafter Regina relocated from Texas with her family and her sons always wanted her to open a restaurant. “Soul food is cooking from the heart…learned from her family and says it is not something you can teach"

At RepHAIRations, we provide a welcoming environment to shop and appreciate textured hair and all the ways we choose to style it. We are committed to supporting and elevating other Black-owned businesses in every aspect of our own busness. Our store is a gathering place, a hub for connection where we celebrate us.

Revive Therapeutic Services is a culturally diverse mental health and psychiatric facility. We provide high-quality, customized, and affordable solutions for every patient. Live life more productively and feel better with our services. Our team consists of Psychiatrists, Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioners and Licensed Therapists. We focus on mental health and wellness, specializing in a variety of conditions including depression, anxiety, bipolar spectrum disorders, ADHD, PTSD, life transitions, addiction and, mood disorders.

City Sealcoating is a company that specializes in all kinds of asphalt maintenance and asphalt construction. Services include sealcoating, line striping, crack sealing, paving and snow plowing.

Cupcake Therapy is tree nut-free and peanut-free cupcakery that bakes made-to-order cupcakes. Cupcake Therapy bakes with premium ingredients, organic when possible, and many of their cupcakes can be made dairy-free/vegan. Their goal is to make the best-tasting desserts that almost anyone can enjoy, regardless of dietary restrictions

Elegant Stitches is a family-owned custom embroidery and screen-printing company that supplies branded apparel and promotional products for public and private sector employees, teams, and community groups.

Firecode Design offers Fire protection installation and inspection services such as fire sprinklers, fire extinguishers, fire alarms and first suppressants. They are a one-stop shop when it comes to fire safety.

In Shape Incentive provides a wide range of training, fitness and nutritional services.

Oasis Transport is a warehouse and logistics company providing trucking, van courier and storage services.

Paws & Purrfection Company provides essential pet supplies and delivery to the local community.

Playa Society is a sport-inspired streetwear brand that prioritizes women and promotes both gender equality and social justice.

Rock City Pizza is a quick service pizzeria that offers a wide variety of take out food.

Shana Bryant Consulting works with small businesses and nonprofits to create memorable moments through education training and curated experiences.

Spark FM Online is a digital radio platform that was created to empower and amplify the underserved voices of the community.

SweeTy’s Treats is the neighborhood bakery that supplies the tastiest cupcakes, brownies, cheesecake cups, and custom cakes for weddings, baby showers, gender reveals, bridal showers, birthday parties and more.

Beraka Juice is a juice shop and popup juice bar serving organic cold-pressed juices, cleanses, acai bowls, smoothies, and other healthy foods.

Rooted in Romans 12:2 “do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,” our mission is to serve our community by transforming lifestyles into healthier ones. We aim to achieve this mission through the food we serve in a welcoming and phenomenal guest experience, through events and by hosting workshops.

Our commitment to our guests is to provide the highest quality of nutrition for a healthy lifestyle, and that is using organic ingredients

This small burger bar serves gourmet patties & toppings, plus kale drinks, smoothies, salads & more.

  Coils to Locs, founded in 2019 by a cancer survivor and natural hair blogger, supports hospital cancer centers and medical hair loss salon’s ability to provide access for all of their clients regardless of hair type by offering contemporary, high quality, coily, curly synthetic wigs. Coils to Locs now has partnerships with 6 hospitals/salons.

ManeHire, founded in 2018, was created with two goals in mind: to make it easier to hire great people and to enable clients to exceed their marketplace goals. ManeHire also offers workshops on soft skills and resume building.

Pope Productions, Inc., founded in 2014, provides a full scale experience for all storytelling needs. Pope Productions includes videography, editing, writing and production for short form storytelling. Kristen started the "On-Air Academy" to provide a positive narrative of black people in communities across the country through training, coaching, and placing black journalists in newsrooms. To date the On Air Academy has coached and trained more than 300 entry level and aspiring journalists.

The mission of SheChefs, founded in 2013, is to provide mentoring and guidance to young women from urban settings who aspire to be exceptional within the culinary arts.

After being laid-off from her job in the HR industry in 2002, Karen had her second daughter and opened Small Steps Daycare. Small Steps accept all state-issued vouchers; homeless, DTA, DCF, and teen programs. Small Steps’ ultimate goal is to provide affordable childcare, prepare all children to enroll in kindergarten, while in a safe and healthy learning environment.

The Nurse’s Office, a primary care and walk-in center founded in 2017, provides primary care and walk-in services, including on-site lab work, for acute, non-life-threatening injuries and conditions, including sprains, strains, lacerations (cuts), fevers, colds, flu, other viruses, stomach bugs, and food poisoning.

The Vegan Nest, founded in 2017, is a collective committed to celebrating a healthy, natural, holistic and compassionate lifestyle. Rooted in biblical principles of gentleness, mercy and love, The Vegan Nest Cafe is passionate about compassion and shares that with its nesters through recipes and services.

Seeing growth in the craft beer industry and recognizing the absence of local beer in Springfield, MA, Raymond Berry Jr. founded The White Lion Brewing Company with community in mind in 2014. Today, White Lion is proud to call 1500 Main Street in downtown Springfield its home.

Yamacu is a West African fusion beverage company that offers delicious locally handcrafted fresh ginger drinks.