Black Brand celebrates National Bosses Day

PORTSMOUTH, Va. — Wednesday is Nationwide Bosses Day, and one group in Portsmouth is celebrating the event by ensuring some Black companies homeowners are getting the popularity they deserve. 

The Black Model’s “Good Firm Tour,” a parade to shock three space Black companies with micro-grants, took to Portsmouth streets on Wednesday. 

At every cease on the Black Model’s “Good Firm Tour,” they handed out checks to well-deserving enterprise homeowners.

Tim Armstrong with Bloom Coworking obtained a type of checks.

Armstrong mentioned, “Simply to have somebody to say thanks and to affirm what we’re doing, I’ll inform you it pays off.”

The occasion is simply forward of Black Diamond Weekend, Virginia’s largest Black enterprise convention.

Though the convention isn’t till subsequent month, Blair Durham, co-founder of Black Model, says native companies want assist now.

Durham mentioned, “It’s is our manner of reminding companies that you simply don’t must go in alone. In actual fact, you’re seen. You might be valued on this neighborhood.”

Organizers handed out three checks price $1,000 to the bosses at Bloom Coworking, Laborious Instances Skate Store and Thyme on The River in Portsmouth.

Durham mentioned, “I’ve seen small companies translate one thousand {dollars} to 10 thousand {dollars}. So, the sky is the restrict.”

To bosses, like Armstrong, this shock was greater than he bargained for.

“We work laborious each single day,” he mentioned. “Our ‘why’ is to vary lives. So we’re attempting to try this each single day with the individuals we contact.”

Black Diamond Weekend will run from Nov. 7 to the ninth.