Black Chamber of commerce of greater Kansas City

08/20/2025

FYI

Join us on Thursday, September 4th for our next FREE Master Class 📈 Financial Modeling with Damon Thompson 📈

Register now: https://startupspace.app/v2/dynamic-survey/view/210/1953

This Master Class will focus on all things FINANCE including:

✅ The importance of having sound financial projections
✅ Evaluating your price points
✅ How to track your revenue and operating expenses on a monthly basis
✅ Creating a profit and loss statement, balance sheet
✅ Breakeven analysis

Financial Modeling Master Class Details:

📅 Thursday, September 4th
🏬 In-person at BUILD
🕕 6 – 8pm
💲 FREE
📖 Facilitated by Damon Thompson

Register today to project and protect your financial future 👊🏼

08/20/2025

EVERY DAY IS 816 DAY Black Chamber of commerce of greater Kansas City!!!

Shout out to Bizzy Benton, Mr. Kansas Kansas City

816 Day is HERE and the celebration is on! 🙌🏾🔥

Kansas City, today we show out for the culture, the flavor, the music, and the people that keep our city moving 💯❤️

There's something for everybody! There's food, entertainment, vendors, and a kids zone. We want to see everybody today district!!

Check out our page for all the details.

Let’s make this 816 Day one to remember!

08/20/2025

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08/20/2025

STRONGER TOGETHER KANSAS CITY CLOSE THE GAP BUSINESS ACCELERATOR, an initiative of Black Chamber of commerce of greater Kansas City

Q1 Fellows:

Catina K Taylor
Isaiah Colbert
Darrell Jonson
Angelo Wright
Dayonne Nicole

H**P recently hosted an AMPup educational event with our partners, the Black Chamber of Commerce and Stronger Together KC! 🎉 Stronger Together is a Black Chamber of Commerce program designed to bring resources together under one umbrella to support black business owners and introduce youths to entrepreneurship and certificate-based educational opportunities. We love partnering with them and look forward to a long and rewarding relationship!

Attendees:
Cecilia-Ananya Belser-Patton
Executive Director
Black Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City, Inc.

Dreams Kansas City—Catina Taylor

Dscover Ur Dzine—Angelo Wright (not pictured) & Darrell Johnson

Play Event Co—Isaiah Colbert

Mirror Mirror Books—Dayonne Richardson

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08/20/2025

Black Chamber of commerce of greater Kansas City BELIEVES IN THIS MISSION!!!!

We want to help in any way we can The Kansas City Defender.

Last week, the last full service grocery store for miles surrounding 31st & Prospect closed its doors, plunging thousands of poor and Black folks further into an already existing food desert.

But rather than waiting on City Hall for a solution, The People have decided to fight back.

Today, The Defender, KC Black Urban Growers, the Ivanhoe Neighborhood Association, and every major Black farm in the KC metro, are uniting to launch the Hamer Free Food Program, a first-of-its-kind Black-led mutual aid program that distributes fresh produce from Black farms straight to Black families within a one mile radius of 31st and Prospect at ZERO COST.

WANT TO VOLUNTEER OR RECEIVE A FREE FOOD BOX? FILL OUT THIS 30 SECOND FORM: https://forms.gle/QwzkKBCWH211aW2T9

What is the Hamer Free Food Program?

Named in honor of Fannie Lou Hamer, often heralded for her Black liberation & civil rights activism, she is less known for her pioneering role in founding the Freedom Farm Cooperative in 1969.

The Hamer Free Food Program purchases produce directly from Black farms including: Young Family Farm KC, Global One Urban Farming, Sankara Farm, Ophelia’s Blue Vine Farm, and Pearl Family Farm, and the program is coordinated by KC Black Urban Growers, Ivanhoe, and The Defender.

In our September-October phase one rollout, we will deliver free boxes packed with nutrient-dense produce to 50 households within a mile of 31st and Prospect, prioritizing Black elders and neighbors facing mobility barriers after the Sun Fresh closure.

The Defender raised funds to purchase food directly from Black farmers at a fair rate for our phase 1 rollout. This enabled our program to schedule purchases of roughly 667 pounds of fresh produce for direct distribution, while injecting direct reliable cash-flow into Black growers’ income.

SEND THIS FORM TO SOMEONE WHO WOULD SIGN UP FOR A FREE FOOD BOX, MUST LIVE IN 1 MILE RADIUS OF 31ST & PROSPECT

Fill out this 30-sec form: https://forms.gle/QwzkKBCWH211aW2T9