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Ramadan Abdul-Azeez, the organization's newly elected president, is eager to increase membership and modernize the chamber's operations during the volunteer position's three-year term.

The grocery is the first phase from HANDS (Hope Arts Networking Diversity Service), a group of community investors (including Simmons), that will be bringing back a restaurant (but organic and healthy) and a salon in its subsequent phases.

Believe it or not, the secret sauce to business exposure lies within your local black chamber of commerce. With membership pricing that's affordable for all, joining a black chamber of commerce is definitely worth considering as another way to drive consumers to your establishment.

Positive company culture is a crucial ingredient of success for many companies. But achieving said culture is not always easy. Thankfully there are available programs such as Employee Resource Groups (ERG) that are primed for creating a culture where employees feel valued. ERGs have been around since the 1960s – spurred by black employees who […]

Google launched an initiative last year which provided merchants the option to add a Black-Owned Business attribute to their profile.

Looking for members to fulfill initiatives People who care about diversity and inclusion in Fort Wayne should not let the name of the Black Chamber of Commerce deter them from getting involved, the group’s new president told the Fort Wayne Rotary Club on Monday. Clifford Clarke, a former information technology director at Ivy Tech and […]

About 10 years ago, several black leaders in the Fort Wayne business community saw the need for a greater organization to help close the income and wealth gap, particularly for African Americans.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (Fort Wayne's NBC) - The Fort Wayne Black Chamber of Commerce is producing a second directory of Black owned businesses and organizations in the area.

The COVID-19 year has tested the four regional Chambers of Commerce and reinforced guiding principles inherent to their missions. The unique characteristic that bridges the four regional Chambers of Commerce (the Fort Wayne Black Chamber of Commerce, Greater Fort Wayne Inc., the Greater Fort Wayne Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and the Regional Chamber of Northeast […]

Legacy One Real Estate to build new offices. Linda Golden was among the first entrepreneurs to take up residence when the Atrium co-working space opened in 2016.