Harlem Gal: The Harlem Business Alliance is taking applications for business plan competition

The Harlem Business Alliance is holding their Annual Business Plan Competition once again. This year is their fourth year for the competition. The HBA competition is designed to support small business ventures in the Harlem area. The competition’s participants need to meet the following requirements; be at least 18 years old and a legal resident or U.S. citizen; live in Upper Manhattan and have an interest in establishing a for-profit start-up business in Harlem; or be an owner of an operating for-profit business located in Upper Manhattan with maximum annual gross revenues of $500,000. This competition provides the grand prize winner with $5,000.

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Caribbean Life: Harlem Business Alliance honors six

The Harlem Business Alliance is “Leading the Way through Partnership” literally. This mantra is not just a slogan but HBA’s core philosophy. For 31 years, HBA has served as a strong and tireless advocate for the business community in Harlem.

The HBA hosted its 31st Awards Celebration on Dec. 8.

HBA Awards Celebration Chair Maurice Grey said, “We gather tonight with our friends, colleagues and family members to honor Arthur Barnes, Michael Garner, Carol Griffin, Joe & Sheron Barnes, and Jackie Rowe Adams, for their distinguished achievement in business, the arts and public service. We celebrate these six talented leaders of our community, who are shining examples of success through diligence.”

The Chairman’s Award was presented to Arthur Barnes (National Jazz Museum in Harlem), Government Service Award to Michael Garner (Metropolitan Transit Authority), Entrepreneur of the Year Award to Joe & Sheron Barnes (Mobay Uptown Restaurant),Community Service Award to Jackie Rowe Adams (Harlem Mothers Save), Business Person of the Year Award to Carol Griffin (Griffin Real Estate Group).

Through the creation of strategic partnerships with the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone, NYC Department of Small Business Services, City College, Columbia University, Minority Business Leadership Council and support from City Councilwoman Inez Dickens and Senator Bill Perkins, HBA has leveraged these resources to promote the creation, preservation and businesses in Harlem.

Read More at: https://www.caribbeanlifenews.com/harlem-business-alliance-honors-six/

NY Amsterdam News: Harlem Business Alliance’s 31st awards celebration

The Harlem Business Alliance (HBA) is “Leading the Way Through Partnership.” This year, HBA honored Arthur Barnes, Michael Garner, Carol Griffin, Joe and Sheron Barnes and Jackie Rowe Adams for their distinguished achievements in business, the arts and public service.

Sitting, L to R: Regina L. Smith, HBA executive director; Jackie Rowe Adams, Committee Service Award winner; and Sheron Barnes, Entrepreneur of the Year Award winner. Standing, rear: HBA board members and the other awardees

Read at NY Amsterdam News: http://amsterdamnews.com/news/2011/dec/21/harlem-business-alliances-31st-awards-celebration/

NY Beacon: Harlem’s top restaurateurs Joe & Sheron Barnes feted by Harlem Business Alliance

By Audrey J. Bernard
Lifestyles & Society Editor

The Harlem Business Alli-ance, Inc. (HBA) which serves asan advocate for the preservationand retention of Harlem’s busi-ness community celebrated its38th annual gala on Thursday,December 8, 2011 in the FacultyDining Hall at The City CollegeOf New York on 138th Street &Convent Avenue. The event fea-tured a lovely reception followedby dinner and an awards cer-emony honoring outstandingcommunity leaders. The galaevent honored Arthur Barnes,National Jazz Museum (chairmanaward); Michael Garner, Metro-politan Transit Authority (gov-ernment service award); CarolGriffin, Griffin Real Estate Group,(business person of the yearaward); Joe & Sheron Barnes,Mobay Uptown Restaurant, (en-trepreneur of the year award);Jackie Rowe Adams, HarlemMothers Save, (community ser-vice award). HBA was foundedin 1980 by a group of prominentHarlem business leaders, and in-corporated in 1990 as a class 402501(c)(3) corporation. HBA hasworked diligently to establishHarlem as an economically self-sustaining community. Over theyears, HBA has developed cohe-sive public/private partnershipsto assist existing and emergingbusinesses, community residentsand youth. The high level of par-ticipation by HBA’s board andmembers enables the non-profitorganization to impact the qual-ity of life in the Harlem commu-nity and to make the collectivevoice of our membership a valu-able part of the decision makingprocess at the local, state and fed-eral levels. HBA’s membership isdiverse and representative of themost influential minority ownedbusinesses in the New York CityMetropolitan area. Major insti-tutions and corporations operat-ing in and around the Harlem com-munity also share membershipwithin HBA. Collaborative effortswith local and out-of-state orga-nizations occur regularly. Forthirty one years, HBA existed fromthe financial support of its mem-bership and fundraising activi-ties. Walter J. Edwards, CEO, FullSpectrum of NYC, LLC, is HBA’schairman of the board. (PhotoCredit: Seitu Oronde)

Read at NY Beacon: https://hbany.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/2011-annual-celebration-beacon-article-pg141.pdf

NY Daily News: A Harlem fire extinguisher business that started in the basement of a restaurant is hiring, training and growing

Putting out a fire requires speed, skill and guts.

You can say the same about starting a small business in New York City during the recession. Harlem entrepreneurs Londel Davis Jr., 40, and Keith Pearson, 47, know how to do both.

Four years ago, Davis and Pearson, who became friends while serving on an army base in Baumholder, Germany, in the 1980s, launched American Fire Control, a company that sells and services fire extinguishers.

They set up their fledgling business in the cellar of Londel’s Restaurant, a Harlem eatery owned by Davis’ father, Londel Davis. They knocked on the doors of local businesses in the neighborhood, carrying around fire extinguishers in a $25 luggage cart.

“We didn’t start on the ground floor, we started in the basement,” Davis said.

Today, the vets have two storefronts on Adam Clayton Powell Blvd., five vans, and 13 employees, five of whom are Harlem residents.

With the Apollo Theater, the New York City Police Department and the New York City Housing Authority as customers, sales will reach between $500,000 and $600,000 this year, more than double what they were in 2010.

Davis credits drive and salesmanship for the company’s staying power. “The key is dedication, determination and drive,” he said. “You don’t have to be a genius.”

Read More at:  https://www.nydailynews.com/news/money/harlem-fire-extinguisher-business-started-basement-restaurant-hiring-training-growing-article-1.990320

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