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What's Next? | Black Business Month at The Exchange at Beverly Gray
On this episode of What’s Next?, we focus on The Exchange at Beverly Gray. For some time now, the Exchange has been serving as an...
Dec 13, 20231 min read

Ignite Labs to use Black Founded Platform to help catalyze growth in Western New York
“We offer an incubation program, followed by acceleration workshops. Then we provide mentorship and coaching. And finally we connect...
Dec 13, 20231 min read

Growing podcast studio opens in bigger space in the Exchange at Beverly Gray
"We needed more space and we needed something that was a bit more conducive to the type of quality we were looking to put on with our...
Dec 13, 20231 min read

Highlighting important resources available during Black Business Month
With August being National Black Business Month, we're learning about the support local Black businesses receive from The Exchange at...
Dec 13, 20231 min read


The Exchange at Beverly Gray Celebrates National Black Business Month 2023
Join us each week as we celebrate black-owned Buffalo businesses! See below the lineup of free, community events The Exchange will be...
Jul 7, 20233 min read

Insight: The Exchange at Beverly Gray
Shantel Coleman of the Martin Groups sat down with serial entrepreneur and The Exchange's Executive Director, Derrick Parson. Derrick...
Feb 9, 20233 min read


East Buffalo Small Business Working Capital Grant Program
As part of her Juneteenth announcement, and in response to the May 14, 2022 racially motivated mass murder of 10 persons at Tops Friendly...
Feb 9, 20232 min read


Laura Lees BBQ
Laurletha came to The Exchange wanting to continue the legacy of her grandmother Laura Lee Sander in the form of a cooking business. This...
Feb 8, 20231 min read


We Are Nuts
In 2006, Pearl Omphelius and her son Kody started selling the candied nuts they’d been making forever as a side hustle, selling at...
Jan 5, 20232 min read
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