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Communication is Key
While most states have MWBE-specific business resource centers, those centers have been unable to conduct in-person outreach during the pandemic. Cities have moved online New York City’s Department of Small Business services offers courses and pro-bono legal assistance in multiple languages, but now offers the services on their websites and through scheduled appointments with specialists.
NYC’s Immigrant Business Connection offers information to people starting new businesses in the city and is accompanied by a website that can be translated, via drop-down menu, into over 100 languages. The project is a collaboration between the New York Public Library and the city’s Department of Small Business Services.
MCKEES ROCKS From the Grand Canyon to Cleveland, and California to back home in McKees Rocks, Black Forge Coffee House is doing what it can to help devastated concert venues.
Black Forge Coffee created its own Save Our Stages blend of java, available for $25 a bag, with proceeds given to independent concert sites whose employees are out of work due to the pandemic.
Believing the mission needed to be spread coast-to-coast, Black Forge owner Ashley Corts bought a van and hit the road, selling Save Our Stages (S.O.S.) coffee in pop-up fashion, outside of concert venues, tattoo shops or other small businesses that welcomed her.
James Hill Pittsburgh City-County Building lit for Pride Month Nearly nine months after Pittsburgh City Council voted to create its LGBTQIA+ Commission, Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto announced appointees to the group designed to address challenges facing LGBTQIA+ residents and visitors.
On Feb. 8, Peduto named the people chosen for the LGBTQIA+ Commission, who will be introduced to Pittsburgh City Council on Feb. 9. The city originally put out a call for applicants to join the Commission in July 2020. “This is a strong and impressive group, and will be extremely helpful in informing policies on LGBTQIA+ matters across city government,” says Peduto in a press release.