Where are the minority-owned businesses in Boulder County?

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Updated: May 24, 2023

Updated: Feb 23, 2020

This article has been updated to include the Equity Solutions Boulder County Black-owned businesses directory which recently published.

We were asked to create a list of black-owned businesses in Boulder County. We actually began working on this more than 6 weeks ago prior to being asked.

The problem is, there is a small handful of black-owned businesses in Boulder County that we are aware of. After speaking to a few of them, we are not sure all of them want to focus on this and we won’t publish their name in a list without their approval.

This begs the question; why we do not have more black-owned business owners in the area? Why they don’t always feel comfortable highlighting their skin color in Boulder County?

So we set our sites on making a list of all IBPOC owned-businesses. This expands the pool into our Hispanic, Native, Asian as well as Black business owners. Now this list grows to well over 500. This is a large list to compile with Minority-owned businesses in our region and will take more than a day or two for our full-time staff of to compile, as we need to call each one to give us the okay to be listed.

In the meantime, we are able to bring you these resources for supporting local minority-owned businesses.

There used to be a organization that was keeping a running list, but it is now defunct. However, with this update Travel Boulder has created an article of some of the local black-owned businesses in Boulder County. but it is limited to just 5 businesses. You can find a more comprehensive list of minority-owned businesses through Boulder SBDC (Small Business Development Center).

Minority Business Database

From the Stealth Projects website:

We are building a list of Colorado Based businesses owned or managed by Black folks. This list in being curated by Equity Solutions which is owned by a Black person as well. We are collecting this data so that we can better connect with each other and that individuals and organizations that are in Colorado can better support our community.

To learn more about the Stealth Project or to include your business, click here.

Other resources for supporting Boulder County & State-wide Minority-owned businesses:

303 Magazine compiled this extensive list of black-owned businesses and organizations in the Denver Metro, but as we can see the majority of the list is just that, Denver.

DenverBlackPages.com

Black in Denver

Colorado Black Chamber of Commerce

Support Black Owned

MyBlackColorado.com

Minority Chambers & resources to get involved with:

Latino Chamber of Boulder County

Asian Women in Business

Boulder Asian Pacific Alliance

Boulder Small Business Development Center-Minority-owned businesses of Boulder County

Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade Minority-owned business database

Resources for the Native American & Indigenous Community