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Oregon’s Black-owned businesses create books, brews, food, candles. Here’s an easy way to find them By Janet Eastman, oregonlive.com
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Black-owned companies are spotlighted on the Built Oregon Marketplace in celebration of Black History Month. These makers, who have invented food, books and captivating products, can arrange a pickup at their shop or a delivery to your door.
The builtoregon.shop site also makes it easy to find up-and-coming small businesses by region.
The virtual Built Oregon Marketplace is open to makers across the state and is part of Built, a nonprofit with 150 business experts who volunteer to support the growth of the state’s consumer product industries.
Oregon’s Black-owned businesses create books, brews, food, candles. Here’s an easy way to find them
Updated Feb 17, 2021;
Posted Feb 14, 2021 Black Superheroes Matter Artbook is the original illustration series by Northwest Portland-based artist and storyteller Steven Christian.Steven Christian
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The builtoregon.shop site also makes it easy to find up-and-coming small businesses by region.
The virtual Built Oregon Marketplace is open to makers across the state and is part of Built, a nonprofit with 150 business experts who volunteer to support the growth of the state’s
consumer product industries.
Storyteller, artist and designer Steven Christian participates in the Built Oregon Marketplace and has his portfolio of work displayed at his Iltopia Studios in Northwest Portland.
Last-minute Valentine’s Day gifts that look well planned: Cooking classes? Flowers, chocolate, wine are ready for pick up or delivery
Updated Feb 11, 2021;
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Yes, it’s time to panic if you don’t yet have a plan for Valentine’s Day on Sunday, Feb. 14. Fortunately, you can contact Oregon makers who have invented food, books and fashionable looks with a Pacific Northwest flavor and arrange a pickup at their shop or a delivery to your door.
The new, Built Oregon Marketplace is an easy way to find up-and-coming small business owners by region (builtoregon.shop).
If you’re in southern Oregon, may we suggest you stop (or shop online) at a culinary corner of Central Point that has world-renowned Rogue Creamery’s organic, handmade cheese shop, award-winning Ledger David Cellars Le Petit Tasting Room and Lillie Belle Farms Artisan Chocolates (with its killer and we mean it chocolate zombie bunnies and ghost chili-infused candies)?
How to support local Portland and Oregon businesses this holiday season without leaving your house
Updated Dec 11, 2020;
Posted Dec 11, 2020
Crafty Wonderland usually draws thousands of people to its annual holiday market at the Oregon Convention Center, but opted to go virtual this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Stephanie Yao Long/The Oregonian LC)LC- The Oregonian
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It would be an understatement to say that 2020 has been a tough year for Oregon retailers.
Many are still struggling to recover since being forced to briefly close at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, while others have shut their doors for good. More than half of 60 small businesses surveyed in September by Bricks Need Mortar, which advocates for independent Portland retailers, reported that their sales were down 50% to 90% compared to the same time last year.