The Bay Area Organization of Black Owned Businesses (BAOBOB) Directory strives to empower the Black community by supporting Black business and custom helping keep our dollars within our communities.
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This month, we celebrate women in business! Today we highlight Deborah "Debbie" Allen - wife, mother, actress, dancer and choreographer. Debbie has her very own dance academy in Los Angeles, California, Debbie Allen Dance Academy. She has put 40+ years into her career, and we are so excited to see what else she brings!
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Running your business isn't always a million dollar operation. There are many ways that you can run your business that won't break the bank. Narrow your focus, make the most of the space you have and focus on the quality that you business gives.
What are some ways you run your business for little to nothing? Leave a comment below.
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Thank you! Thank you! Thank you to our speakers, judges and djs! You brought so much knowledge and fun to our Anniversary Celebration!
Our marketplace was full! We would like to thank all of the vendors that participated in this weekend’s event!
Don’t forget, our marketplace is open until the 28th! So you haven’t missed out!
This weekend was amazing! We had great events and a great time! We would like to thank all of our Sponsors for helping this come together!
RSVP now for tonight. Listen during your commute, while your making dinner or in your ears whatever your evening routine. Be in the room to hear from Board of Equalization Chair, Malia Cohen.
FREE REGISTRATION (required) | MORE INFO
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/san-francisco-phoenix-rising-black-history-month-2021-tickets-139698900171
Body + Mind Wellness - Up next is Yoga with Yoga Love
There is still time to join us! https://hopin.com/events/babob5
Join us for #BodyCharge with King Theo of OHaLiving.
There is still time to join us. https://hopin.com/events/babob5
There is still time to REGISTER for the Body+Mind Wellness event with Treina Alexander! Don’t miss out!
REGISTER TODAY at https://zcu.io/Anqz
Again - the marketplace is still open and our vendors are waiting for you! Don’t forget to “hop in” to see all of the GREAT, AFFORDABLE products they have prepared for you!
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Make sure you register for tomorrow’s Body+Mind Wellness event! And thank you to OHa Living and Mad.Lines for sponsoring this event!
REGISTER TODAY at http://baobobstore.com/
REMEMBER that the marketplace is open ALL WEEKEND. Stop in at the booths to get some GREAT, AFFORDABLE products!
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Warming up the internet stage for day 2 #NAMEYOURSELF @fingersnapsmediaarts Getting Down to Business @purposedpartner and taking it Beyond The Pivot @uptimacoop @attacheforbusiness @oakstop @discoveredinberkeley @vibemap @thesmbx ... last night lit you up, today we're bout to put it to work! ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿
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Meet A Vendor - AIMA the DRMR! Made in Oakland, CA. with love and deep reverence, Be Light invites you into an intentional space. Each piece is a one-of-a-kind, hand wrapped by Aima the Drmr , in the beautifully vibrant and colorful Ankara fabric. Give the gift of light and color.
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Meet A Vendor - Women of the Black Panther Party! Check out their completed but amazing Facebook & Kickstarter fundraising campaigns and let’s keep that energy going forward.
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Meet A Vendor - GreenLeef Wellness ! We are an experienced collective of cannabis artisans, healers, wellness practitioners and just good people from Oakland CA who care about the world, the environment and the people who live in it.
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Meet A Vendor - SharpeCookie GH! SharpeCookie GH is a custom African print line that never duplicates. We use a different print each time for a particular style. Custom items will be labeled. For these options, select your fabric from our swatches under the outfit.
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Meet A Pitch Judge - Trevor! Trevor Parham, founder of Oakstop, is an award winning artist, entrepreneur, and investor. He is the Founder of Oakstop; a Black owned and operated business that uses commercial real estate as a platform for economic development and community empowerment by providing workspace, meeting/event space, and creative space for entrepreneurs and communities of color.
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Meet A Vendor - Public Bank East Bay! Public Bank East Bay will invest public financial resources of participating jurisdictions to meet the needs of local communities.
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Meet A Vendor - @publicbankeastbay! Public Bank East Bay will invest public financial resources of participating jurisdictions to meet the needs of local communities.
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#BAOBOB #BAOBOB5 #BAOBOBAnniversary #AnniversaryCelebration #NameYourSelf
Spending a few hours organizing your social media can free up twice that amount of time in your busy schedule. Getting Down To Business ™ events always put the WORK into workshop, so come prepared to walk away with something crossed off your to-do list.
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Meet A Vendor - Lisa Gaines! Lisa Gaines is originally from the east coast and has resided in the Bay Area for over 30 years. She feels her purpose on the planet is to reveal to women their true beauty and to support them in connecting to their natural brilliance so they can confidently live their best life and embrace their own life purpose. As a trained color analyst and personal stylist, she loves facilitating life-changing transformations for her clients.
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Meet A Vendor - Exotic Linx! Exotic Linx’s work includes semi-precious stones, wood, shells, leather and fabric. I love to re-create pieces that have been forgotten or discarded and you may see that many of my pieces include re-claimed materials.
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Meet A Sponsor AND Speaker - Maddy Cliff! Maddy is a writer, musician and educator born and raised in Seattle. Currently based in Oakland, she’s spent the past ten years teaching literary arts workshops to local youth. She’s taught on college campuses, within locked-down facilities and even as far away as Uganda!
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Meet a Vendor - BRASH! They are an in your face, on your skin, never compromising quality and always affordable brand. They specialize in making you feel and smell as fly as you are.
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Meet A DJ - Fingersnaps Media Arts! Fingersnaps Media Arts in the heart & soul of the Mission District in San Francisco, envisioned and founded by DJ Lamont. Fingersnaps Media Arts is an educational and artistic space to converge and partake in exploring ones passion; Learn to DJ, record a mix, formal talks, workshops and symposiums, DJ entertainment services, DJ memberships, co-working, artist showcases, community gatherings, and lite-relevant retail. The mission, the impetus of Fingersnaps Media Arts; Create. Educate. Be Inspired!
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Meet A Sponsor - OHa Living! OHa life system principles are practiced daily through a series of actions and activations. #BodyCharge is a daily sunrise activity used to align the mental, physical and spiritual beings.
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Meet A Vendor - Toss and Throws! Toss and Throws is based in Oakland, CA. Specializing in handmade Pillow covers, Throws, Cross body bags and Two way Tops, artisan Cheryl Wilson uses cotton Mud Cloth from Mali Africa to create one-of-a-kind pieces.
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With pandemic losses, societal friction, economic implosion, what can our living leaders tell us about this moment from their long view? They’re here now… let’s listen with @ourblackyear
This keynote conversation will be broadcast live! Tune in and listen for FREE or get tickets to join at the townhall level and contribute to the discussion with the link in our bio!
#BAOBOB #BAOBOB5 #AnniversaryCelebration #KeyNote #TuneIn #GetTickets
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Meet A Sponsor - Afro Urban Society! Afro Urban Society is a leader in diverse Black and Pan African art & cultural experiences. We specialize in multifaceted events, and experiences that provide opportunity for connecting people, sharing ideas, and creative exploration.
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Meet A Vendor - The Healing Place Apothecary! THP company is excited to provide jobs and entrepreneurial exposure to local youth and people of color in an environment where quality education and employment opportunities can seem out of reach. The Healing Place Apothecary prioritizes our support of economically healthy and vital communities.
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Meet A Workshop Presenter - Ebbie Blanca! EB is an entrepreneur, an author, a life agent, a poet, a seer of the invisible realms of the heart, mentor, a mother, a friend, a spokesperson for a generation that has lost their voice, a champion of standards of excellence, and a breath of fresh air in a world of moral staleness.
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Meet A Sponsor - SMBX! SMBX is a team of recovering bankers, financial engineers, and technologists working around the clock to democratize small business finance.
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Meet A Vendor - The Lemonade Bar! The Lemonade Bar specializes in fresh squeezed lemonade and organic handcrafted frozen lemonades. We work out of the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Area. Our creative team loves to create many new flavors to excite the palate of many. You can find us at farmers markets, weddings, graduations, parties and more. We pride ourselves in using organic locally sourced ingredients from farmers within our community.
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1721 Broadway, Ste 201
Oakland, CA
94612
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Major Announcement! Step 1: Watch the Video Step 2: Click this Link: https://beta.baobobdirectory.com #blackownedapp #mobileapp #mobiledirectory #freedownload #supportblackbusiness #supportblackownedbusiness #supportblackownedbusinesses #baobob #bayarea
We are highlighting #blackbusinessdads on Father's Day. First up is @exclusiveshoesrich! 🖤❤️💚 #baobob #blackbusiness #blackdirectory #supportblackbusinesses #supportblackowned #supportblackownedbusinesses #blackowned #blackfathers #blackfathersmatter
A word from YaVette here at BAOBOB! #baobobdirectory #reflections #allaboutthebusiness
Out here at the Ashby Flea Market that isn't... the management have closed it this weekend and possibly for months to come. Vendors are taking issue with the plan. so much to say but this brother captures it all... the Ashby Flea Market has been a Bay Area institution, especially for Black owned business, for nearly 40 years. #supportblackownedbusiness #startnowdontstop #ashbybartfleamarket #vendorlife #iamblackbusiness #berkeley
Sending big love to all of our members, collaborators, and partners in 2018! Happy New Year to all, and we look forward to continuing our work together in 2019!🎇 ❤️🖤💚 #baobobdirectory #supportblackbusiness #happynewyear
Meet BAOBOB member Desiré J. Forté, owner of Damn Good Teas. Her business is quenching thirsts and healing generational trauma sip by sip. 🍵🍃💪🏿 #iamblackbusiness #supportblackbusiness #baobobdirectory #damngoodteas #TeaLady
Meet BAOBOB member Robynn Glover-Holloway, owner of Nunu's Desserts. Her business is bringing back memories one moist and delicious bite at a time. 🍰✊🏾❤️🖤💚 #iamblackbusiness #baobobdirectory #supportblackbusiness #nunusdesserts #blackbakers
This holiday season, BAOBOB is lifting up Black businesses through our #iamblackbusiness campaign! Check out a message from our Founder and CEO YaVette Holts. ✊🏿❤️🖤💚
Dont sleep on the importance of b2b connection. Today's @lifeisliving vendors pre-event gathering was the time to share experience, collaborate and get clear. There's not much better than being prepared. A big shout out to all, but especially to our youth vendors, flexing. #inspired #collaboration #lifeisliving #oakland #westoakland
Another economic reality is possible -- one that values community, sustainability and resiliency instead of profit by any means necessary. Niki Okuk shares her case for cooperative economics and a vision for how working-class people can organize and own the businesses they work for, making decisions for themselves and enjoying the fruits of their labor. Today's #BayAreaBlackFriday challenge BAOBOB highlights one of our local food cooperative Mandela Foods Cooperative, get your grocery shopping on! #ShopBlack #SupportBlackOwned #LeadByExample #BayAreaBOB #ComeUndertheBAOBOBtree #legacylove #yams #greens #sweetpotatopie #givethanks
Still feeling lifted by the beautiful people – all y’all!! – that made Life Is Living 10 such an amazing day. We want to give a special shout out to the 60 #vendors who brought the marketplace to life, kept bellies full all afternoon, and did all that with early morning load in and litter free load out late in the day. Salute to you and the commitment it took to maneuver with the date change and come out smiling. Thank you for your thoughtful notes and photos, keep ‘em coming!! The Youth Speaks, BAOBOB, CultivateEAD production trio is a testament to team work done well and we give thanks. Giving thanks, too, for our peeps Keta Price, Sidney Cain, Dominique Dickerson, Lori Shepherd, Jourden Moore, Jonathan who came through so early, ready to help keep the vendor registration process smooth. If you missed it, rest assured there are plenty opportunities to participate in BAOBOB projects and events! Jump on our email list to stay up on things. Visit www.BAOBOBdirectory.com to sign up. Life Is Living was a beautiful day with no shortage of beautiful business in the marketplace. #BAOBOB #itsaboutthebusiness #youthspeaks #cultivate2sustain #LIL10 #vendorvillage #oakland
Its Black Restaurant week and this heat wave got us like...its Time to Grub! #notcooking #heatwave In partnership with @blackrestaurantweek BAOBOB will be highlighting each of the delicious restaurants participating until November 5th and scoping out new locations to host the BAOBOB Preferred Member Mixers #bizopenmic For the tix and the list of participating restaurants check out www.bayareabrw.com for more details. To learn about becoming a BAOBOB member check out www.baobobdirectory.com/members and keep an out for the upcoming re-launch!
Vendor Call for 10th Annual LIFE IS LIVING FESTIVAL...A Free celebration of Oakland life through #hiphop, intergenerational health and artistic expression. Applications due in just 2 days on September 22, 2017.
BAOBOB Preferred Member Mixer- Enssaro
The Power of a strong Black Economy is cyclical!!! BAOBOB will provide a visible platform/services for Black Businesses to continue to thrive/develop. This in turn creates "Black Space" for the community to dwell which uplifts a high level of customer service and communal morale. Over time a strong wealth system, an economy, a Black ecosystem will develop with the capacity to support, fund, advocate and give back to the Black community! BAOBOB Directory Official Launch 11/1/15
Together we are more POWERFUL than we think!!!! BAOBOB Directory Official Launch >>>>>>> 11/1/15!!! #BuyBlack #BayArea #BlackWealth #BlackSolidarity #BlackStewardship
How do we create an empowered Black economy? BAOBOB will launch it's Black Biz Directory on Nov.1st!!! More than a directory we are revving up for our crowd funding campaign with a goal to raise 70k! By meeting this goal we will staff BAOBOB and tap into resources and a support network for the Black Businesses throughout the Bay Area!!! We are apart of the #BuyBlack movement and THIS is our answer to the question!
United Democratic Campaign - Oakland, CA
1721 BroadwayNational Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO)
1629 Telegraph Ave, Ste 200Oakland School for the Arts (OSA) Theatre Dep
530 18th StOakland Parks, Recreation & Youth Development
250 Frank H Ogawa Plz, Ste 3330Resources for Oakland's Active Retirees
388 19th St
Oakland Regional Benefits Office - VBA
1301 Clay St. 1400N
Cambodian Community Development, Inc.
1909 International Blvd