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Celebrating 2 years, Black Excellence! returns to San Diego’s hip, historic, City Heights neighborhood for this Young Black & N’ Business Festival, one of the largest celebration of its kind in San Diego. This festival attracts over 250+ attendees. A multi-generational celebration, the festival offers food, music, award ceremony, history and interactive activities for children and families. YB & N’Business Fest! includes live performances from San Diego’s hottest talent, and appearances from San Diego’s prominent black city officials like Monica Montgomery. This event attracts over 30 vendors, more than 30 volunteers and is strongly supported by the City of San Diego and San Diego County.
If you are interested in reserving a vendor booth please email us at olasewere1@gmail.com. Please let me know if you have any additional questions or concerns.

An annual family friendly daytime event and mixer for San Diego’s Young, Engaged, and Serious Entrepreneurs! Say YES! TO THE FEST!
About this Event
Through out the year Young Black & N’ Business hosts events, workshops, and promotions that connect the greater San Diego Region with its diverse and eclectic civic minded business community.

#yesfest2019

This annual event is highly attended and supported by both the local community and its dignitaries.

#ybnbfest

High quality vendors with limited in demand items will be in attendance showcasing the diversity in culture that San Diego has to offer.

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Shop with our vendors or relax in the Beer Garden at this family friendly event located in the heart of City Heights.

#themarathoncontinues

Join us for our special award ceremony where we present the 2019 Young Black & N’ Business Essay Contest finalist with a brand new HP Laptop!

Sponsorship opportunities are available.

This is the official launch of Café X: By Any Beans Necessary, a worker-owned cooperative coffee shop in San Diego, CA. We are not your average coffee shop. Book clubs including non-Eurocentric literature; poetry readings; peer-to-peer language mentoring; writing programs and exchanges; a loan-to-own and lending program for books; organic coffee obtained through direct relationships; and so much more – will all be amenities available to Café X: By Any Beans Necessary visitors. This project celebrates the richness of our culture, using it as the foundation of our mission and purpose. By doing business differently, we maximize the creative freedom of our member-owners, address whole person and community wellness, and keep money flowing within our community.

A portion of proceeds from food and beverages will benefit our two co-located nonprofit organizations Urban Restoration Counseling Center and Open Heart Leaders.

BCA Chat n’ Chew

We will also hear from representatives from hoMEwork, a program designed to introduce formerly incarcerated women and men to careers in the building trades. hoMEwork outreach includes monthly dinners as a forum to hear from the trades and create associations with the leaders.

hoMEwork also offers a weekly life skills class, designed to ensure these women and men have the needed skills to deal with inherent adversity that come with being back in the free world, including how to handle issues that will arise in a job site.

For more on hoMEwork, see this interview with KUSI from earlier this year: https://www.kusi.com/program-helps-those-with-felony-convictions-find-jobs/

All visitors are welcome, but if you need to join our club, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/bNv6LNnV74VxeNtf7 and pay or renew dues via Venmo (sdlabordemclub) or Paypal at sdlabordemclub@gmail.com. Dues are $10 per year.

We hope to see you at our meeting on October 13!

Please join me and Councilmember Monica Montgomery for a fundraiser to elect Kenya Taylor to San Diego Board of Supervisors, District 2.

We are honored to co-host a fundraiser for Kenya. She will bring a much-needed and fresh perspective to the Board of Supervisors and serve all of San Diego County.

WHEN – Sunday, September 29th, 2-5pm
WHERE – Signature Hair Salon

To RSVP or DONATE go to: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/gjwandmm4kenya
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Suggested donations:
$25 Friend
$50 Grassroots activist
$100 champion
$250 supporter
$500 trailblazer
$850 co-host

Political contributions are not tax-deductible. The County of San Diego campaign regulations permit only personal individual contributions of $850 per individual, per election. Spouses may contribute $1,700 per election, per couple, if both spouses sign the check or credit card form. It is unlawful to be reimbursed by any organization, business, or individual.

Want to know where all the black owned business in San Diego are? Well there’s an App for that!

Come celebrate a milestone with us, The Black San Diego App.
We will have live demos, how to navigate the app, important features, and how you can get involved with the app.

An evening of fun all while mixing with the BSD community.

Ticket price includes entry, wine flight, and raffle ticket.

Raffle prizes are from Black owned businesses

Join us October 20 at the beautiful historic home of Adrianna and James Ladd. Their home was built in 1887, the same year that National City was incorporated!

The campaign kickoff fundraiser will feature special guests Mayor Alejandra Sotelo-Solis and Councilmember Mona Rios.

Bring your family, contribute what you can, and help us make history as we support Marcus Bush for National City Council!

Come learn more about candidate and her platform. Light refreshments will be available.