Celebrating Black History Month
It’s Black History month and to celebrate, we wanted to give our Black clients their flowers and shout out their incredible work. As a Black-owned company, Viscera Studio is focused on working with similarly aligned passion-driven, and diverse-led businesses and organizations that are building and growing organizations that are impactful in our community. We hope that you can use this as a directory of businesses to choose from for upcoming opportunities
Ayodele Nzinga, illustrated by Cia Gould
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DescriptionBAMBDCDC & Lower Bottom Playaz
Ayodele Nzinga is a multi-hyphenated artist. She is Oakland’s first Poet Lauriet in addition to being a brilliant actress, producing director, playwright, dramaturg, performance consultant, educator, and community advocate. She is the director of the Lower Bottom Playaz, Inc., Oakland's oldest North American African Theater Company and founder of Lower Bottom Playaz Summer Theater Day Camp. She is co-founder of Janga’s House a Black Women Arts collective and a founding member of BlacSpace Collective. She is the Executive Director of the Black Arts Movement Business District Community Development Corporation, of Oakland, (BAMBD CDC); and founder and producer of BAMBDFEST International Biennial a month-long arts and cultural festival animating the Black Arts Movement Business District in Oakland.
AyodeleNzinga.com text goes here
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The California Minority Counsel Program (CMCP) is a California 501(c)(6) non-profit mutual benefit corporation, dedicated to promoting diversity in the legal profession by providing attorneys of color with access and opportunity for business and professional development.
CMCP is the only state-wide organization that brings business lawyers of all races together as members and colleagues, regardless of the type of organization in which they practice, for the purpose of achieving diversity and inclusion within law firms and in-house law departments, and in the outside counsel spend of corporations and government agencies.
CMCP.org
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Cuzzins Children Clothing is a San Francisco-based, woman-owned clothing business providing employment and sustainability to women in villages in Enugu, Nigeria. Clothing sales provide resources for purchasing goods and services such as washing machines and refrigerators for women and their families. Every original design from Cuzzins Clothing commemorates an important figure in Black history and culture.
https://www.cuzzinsclothing.com
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We buy and preserve real estate to keep tenants of color in our community, to remove housing from the speculative market, and to address the root problems associated with poverty concentration and neighborhood disinvestment.
We recruit real estate investors to divest from Wall St., to invest in our communities, and to help us accumulate collective wealth. Our model empowers existing residents to build equity and assert control over neighborhood change, while mobilizing the resources of newer residents that want to live in inclusive and equitable communities (most of us want this!).
https://ebprec.org/
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With over 35 years of combined expertise in Biopharmaceuticals, Hill & Hill QA works collaboratively with clients to guide quality management strategies. Our team possesses the experience to devise customized solutions to specific quality management issues and can provide stage appropriate strategies to meet regulations within the biotech, pharmaceutical and medical device fields. We understand that every situation is different and pride ourselves in working with our clients to find the most compliant solution for that situation.
https://hillhillqa.com/
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In The Black is a creative and entrepreneurial marketplace providing Black-owned businesses with access to affordable retail space in the historic Fillmore District. In a former check cashing outlet, at the bustling corner of Fillmore and Geary, In The Black is carving out a new path focused on Black community empowerment, wealth building, and prosperity. Black entrepreneurs can engage with In The Black by subleasing space on a long-term basis, and via pop-ups, event activations, and selling products on the marketplace’s e-commerce website. In The Black will provide affordable retail space to hundreds of Black-owned businesses over the next decade.
https://intheblackshop.com/
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A San Francisco Legacy Business, IXIA is a full-service flower company creating bespoke, one-of-a-kind, flower arrangements. Experiencing an IXIA arrangement is a journey into the sublime, known for it’s branches, tree trunks and driftwood, each arrangement is designed to surround you and appeal to your senses. Mosses, stones, succulents, pods and other forms borrowed from nature create a palette of texture. And wherever you look, you see tradition blend with innovation, in designs that range from fresh takes on the familiar to the artfully exotic. For over 36 years, IXIA has created sculptural floral arrangements that reflect the wonder of the natural world. Our passion is evident in everything we create, from the smallest arrangement to the largest installation, and in art pieces that last an evening or a lifetime.
ixiasf.com
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Pulse Check 101 offers robust emergency response certification training to corporate organizations and individuals. Our training goals focus on providing teams, individuals, and organizations with the right, practical, and life-saving safety interventions.
https://pulsecheck101.com/
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PURPLE RAINA Self Care is a suite of hemp CBD-infused self-care and grooming products that soothe sore muscles, while providing skin health and aromatherapy benefits.
These versatile products are created to be used from head to toe, and offer daily rituals invoking the 7 Chakras inherent to yoga, meditation, massage, and aromatherapy. Regardless of gender, ethnicity and age, adults desire the healthiest, most vibrant skin, hair, and scalp individually possible. PURPLE RAINA Self Care seeks to appeal to our collective humanity, by focusing on our common need for daily grooming and self-care on a physical, mental, and spiritual level. Going beyond traditional concepts of gender and beauty, PURPLE RAINA promotes “mindful self-care and grooming.”
Purpleraina.com
If you’re a Black-led business or organization looking for a studio with cultural competence and experience designing for fellow People of Color, contact us.
