Lake Street Council is pleased to partner with The Black Women’s Wealth Alliance on the Black Prosperity on Corridors (BPOC) initiative. The BPOC is sponsored by Sunrise Banks and additional partners include the MN Better Business Bureau and Baker Tilly. Other partner organizations in this initiative are Neighborhood Development Center, and West Broadway Business & Area Coalition.

The BPOC was created to provide Historical African American business owners located on West Broadway, University Ave (St. Paul) and Lake Street corridors with culturally specific services and resources such as education, equity capital, tools and relationships to support the needs of their business success. African American businesses offer a range of products & services vital to the local economy and must continue to be supported through long term prosperity.

Learn more and apply. Applications close Sunday, May 22 at 11:59 pm.

UPDATE - MAY 19, 2022

The following BPOC events are canceled:

• BPOC Close Application Date: Sunday, May 22, 2022 - (there will not be a closed application date, we will accept applications until grant funds exhaust, and for the Bootcamp registration.) .

• BPCO Award Announcement Date: June 6th, ,2022 - (there will not be an award announcement- the granting process will be on a rolling case by case approach until funds are exhausted. We will track all grantees and continue to work in partnership with granting partners. Please send us the name and phone number of your representative to work with us on granting review & decision making so that we may include them into the process ).

•  Partners EC Grant orientation, review & decision-making tools: May 25th, 2022 -(orientation canceled- we will meet with each applicant one to one). 

• Partner meetings and final decisions: June 2nd, 2022 (meeting canceled- we will work with granting partners as grantees apply for funds). 

•  BPOC Participant Orientation (partners & businesses) Thursday, June 9, the 2022  6pm-7:30pm ( canceled- this orientation was established in support of applicants which is no longer needed due to other changes). 

• BPOC Celebration Date:  Monday July 18, 2022, 5:00 pm (canceled- given the format of the BPOC we no longer need a graduation ceremony).