IMPACCT Brooklyn rapidly deployed Project ReStart in response to the COVID-19 lockdown on small businesses in March 2020. Project ReStart focuses on Black, women, and people of color-owned entities in Central Brooklyn. (Click here or click the thumbnail above to watch a short video on Project ReStart!)
Jumping into action, IMPACCT Brooklyn collaborated with the Small Business Legal Relief Alliance (SBLRA) spearheaded by the law firm Stroock, Stroock & Lavan and BOCNet, a New York-based community development financial institution. Together we help to provide legal counsel, support, technical assistance and much needed access to capital for these businesses to survive during and after the pandemic.
IMPACCT Brooklyn raised financial resources with help and support from our partners at Goldman Sachs, Donor-Advised Fund and the Citi Foundation, to supplement the need for commercial rent relief and ongoing technical assistance for a small, but significant cohort of Black-owned businesses. We continue to collaborate with others like the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce to provide on-the-ground support and to distribute over 15,000 packages of PPE and sanitizing products, along Washington and Flatbush avenues and other surrounding commercial corridors.
Black Business Month was founded to support and encourage African American-owned businesses in our communities. IMPACCT Brooklyn has helped Black-owned businesses throughout Central Brooklyn with financial and technical assistance for over twenty years. During the ongoing pandemic, we launched our Project ReStart Assistance Program and we encourage you to support our small business partners in Brooklyn, including:
- Al’s Men Shop – 1108 Fulton St
- Alhamdullellahi Barbershop – 1176 Fulton St
- Aspire 2 Dance – 1195 Bedford Ave
- Ava’s Lifeline – 745 Dekalb Ave
- BCakeNY – 702 Washington Ave
- Brooklyn Perk – 605 Flatbush Ave
- Dr. Cuts – 620 Flatbush Ave
- East Coast Barbers – 662 Flatbush Ave
- Ebaata Skincare – 495 Flatbush, C21
- Idalia’s Salon – 402 Prospect Place
- Jus Fishy – 555 Flatbush Ave
- Kreations Family Corp – 696 Flatbush Ave
- Law Office of Melissa E. Bonaldes – 1 Dock 72 Way
- Les’ Blooms Floral – 65A Fenimore St
- Little Miss Muffin ‘N’ Her Stuffin – 768 Washington Ave
- Nu Wave Kultural Kreations – 712 Washington Ave
- Nurish – 637 Washington Ave
- Ode To Babel – 772 Dean St
- Peaches Shrimp & Crab – 285 Grand Ave
- Pooch Purrfect – 789 Washington Ave
- Roar Consulting – 495 Flatbush Ave
- Sensory Street Pediatric Occupational Therapy – 1055 Bedford Ave
- The Gentlemen’s Factory – 495 Flatbush Ave
- Tracie’s with Style Hair Studio – 620 Flatbush Ave
- Trendy Tripping – 495 Flatbush Ave, 2nd Fl
- Yanatiba – 714 Washington Ave
Got an idea for a small business, but you’re not sure how to get it off the ground? Need help expanding? Contact Dale Charles & the IMPACCT Brooklyn Economic Development team and find out what we can do for you.
