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Who We Work With

A national Black business directory developed by the U.S. Black Chambers, and now, with the support of American Express, the first national certification exclusively for Black-owned businesses.ByBlack is designed to provide Black entrepreneurs a way to reach new customers and get access to valuable business resources.

Support ByBlack

American Express is committed to backing the success of Black and minority-owned businesses by providing access to funding, resources, and tools to help you further your growth.

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To Our Corporate Supporters

Your corporate commitments support the use of the ByBlack Platform to find and spend dollars with Black-owned businesses across the nation. If your company is interested in supporting Black-owned business with ByBlack, contact us.

United States Black Chambers Inc.

Verizon

Local Chambers

Uber

Anheuser-Busch Foundation

Molson Coors

Professional Golfers’ Association of America

American Petroleum Institute

US Bank

Microsoft

MGM

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What is ByBlack?

The U.S. Black Chambers, Inc. and American Express are proud to present the newly enhanced ByBlack Platform. The platform is an extensive national Black business directory developed by the U.S. Black Chambers (USBC). And now, with the support of American Express, it also includes the first national certification exclusively for Black-owned businesses. ByBlack is designed to provide Black entrepreneurs a way to reach new customers and get access to valuable business resources.

How is American Express involved in ByBlack?

American Express is providing resources and investment to the U.S. Black Chambers, Inc. to enhance the ByBlack platform and launch the first national certification exclusively for Black-owned businesses. This certification is offered at no-cost. American Express is also using ByBlack to continue to expand its diversity-supplier commitment while also helping encourage other companies to do the same.

Why are the U.S. Black Chambers, Inc. & American Express collaborating on ByBlack?

ByBlack is part of both the efforts of the U.S. Black Chambers, Inc. & American Express’ to support Black-owned businesses. American Express is committed to providing access to capital and financial education to at least 250,000 Black-owned small and medium-sized businesses in the U.S. by the end of 2024, as part of a $1 billion action plan to enhance diverse representation and promote equal opportunities for colleagues, customers and communities. To learn more about our efforts visit https://www.americanexpress.com/backingchange. To learn more about the USBC’s efforts to support Black-owned businesses visit https://www.usblackchambers.org or call (202) 463-8722.

What types of businesses join ByBlack?

ByBlack hosts an extensive national directory and sponsors the first national certification exclusively for Black-owned businesses. Any Black-owned business owner can create a business profile that becomes publicly searchable after our team verifies its information. To onboard your business to ByBlack’s directory, you may begin your application Navigate to “/signup”.here. Certification is available to eligible onboarded businesses — specifically those that specify at least 51% Black ownership and have been founded over a year ago.

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