The National Black Business Information Clearinghouse (Black BIC) is a free web portal that provides critical business information to support the startup and growth of Black-owned businesses. The Black BIC is a collection of business-related articles, videos, local resources, demographics and tools that help Black entrepreneurs successfully start and run a business.

Special features of the Black BIC include:

• Small business and Black community information
• Articles on the most pressing issues for small businesses: Money, Markets, Management and Technology
• Online training videos for self-paced learning
• Demographics data to understand potential markets
• Tools, templates, podcasts and blogs
• Dynamic search of 300+ top business web sites selected by business editors
• Online connection to local and national resources, organizations and associations

The Black BIC is part of the National Business Information Clearinghouse (BIC), a family of customized business information web sites that target small and minority-owned businesses across the country and around the world. These include:

• Hispanic BIC – multi-lingual business resources and community information for Hispanic entrepreneurs offered in both English and Spanish.
• Asian BIC – multi-lingual business resources and community information for Asian entrepreneurs.
• Women BIC – multi-lingual business resources and community information for Women entrepreneurs.

The BIC is a non-profit organization that is committed to creating wealth in communities by providing key information on topics critical to the success of small business: Money, Markets, Management and Technology. The BIC supports the startup and growth of small and minority-owned businesses by enabling access to timely business information, online training and best practices, resulting in a more vibrant business community.

Development of the Black BIC has been funded by Our World, Our Family, Western Union’s $50 million, five-year initiative to empower communities around the world, and supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Labor.

Please click here to see the Board of Directors.

For more information regarding the Black BIC, please contact: