How We Are Building Collective Economic Empowerment

Since our founding in 1993 IBSA have always had a formal activity to help increase the marketing opportunities for local small businesses.

We created our online Black Business Directory (Ujamaa Club) Directory to actively promote businesses listed and for government & corporate buyers to help them grow the capacity of local small businesses to do business with them.

Considering the nature of our work and the problems we work to address, we must go the extra mile for the business interests of those owned by Americans of African Descent.

Below is our offer to help expand information, services and opportunity to those businesses supporting their local Black Business Development Organizations we support. We do this because when we work together, it’s hard to diminish the presence and success of our collective work & responsibility.

IBSA Membership Affiliations:

Join the Heartland Black Chamber

(50% Off: Discount w/Special Code)*

Greater Baltimore Black Chamber

(50% Off:Discount w/Special Code)*

Black Entrepreneurs of the Flint Hills

(50% Off: Discount w/Special Code)*

Request Business Listing Discount Code Here:

https://ibsa-inc.org/contact

Pay to list your business here… Ujamaa Club Directory Listing: $150.00/yr

*Payment to list in our online business directory is not associated with your regular Membership payments to the above IBSA Affiliate.

Attend the Events & Activities of These Organizations 

• Share information you hear about or learn from others to help our ​collective businesses, organizations, families, youth and neighborhoods we live 

• Form a quarterly local Black Leadership Committee to meet and discuss localized issues (the bad & good) ​in a timely & professional manner

BUSINESS

Register your business with local government procurement departments 

• Topeka 

• Shawnee County 

Register your business with the State of Kansas and specific government procurement departments 

• ​KS Dept. of Children & Families (DCF) 

• ​KS D​ept. of Transportation / Local Opportunity Programs

Register your business with your local housing authority 

• Topeka ​Housing Authority 

• K​ansas C​ity K​ansas Housing Authority  

Register your business with your local Unified School District​, Colleges & Universities 

• Topeka​: Topeka Public Schools-USD 501, Washburn University 

• K​ansas C​ity, K​S​: Unified School District 500, KCK Community College 

Register your business with your local hospitals 

• S​tormont Vail

• St. Francis

•  (Colmery O’Neil VA Hospital) Initial Contact: For inquiries regarding contracting, vendor registration, or to reach the appropriate procurement officer, call 785-350-3111, ext. 52912 

Register your business with your local public library 

• Topeka ​& Shawnee County Public Library 

IBSA, Inc. is a tax exempt Kansas Not-For-Profit Corporation founded in 1993 and supported by the community. The organization provides public policy research, analysis and advocacy to address current and ongoing policy inequities.

To directly support those we serve in the community we have always provided structured youth/adult programs, services and activities to assist in their growth & development.

For over 33 years we have helped or referred students, job seekers and small business owners to resources we don’t provide, and can make formal introductions to employment & business opportunities with government or corporations.

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