Black-Owned Businesses Your Law Firm Can Support (a running list)

Are you a law firm that wants to financially support Black-owned businesses? Below is a brief list of ways you and your law firm can do so. Do you have more to add? Email us or comment and we will add it to our list.

Client and/or Staff Gifts

• Seventh and Oak: Candles
• BIPOC Box: Box of branded corporate gifts all made by small businesses and BIPOC-owned makers in North America
• A Different Booklist: Toronto-based book store. While they are only offering in-store pickup at the moment, you can still check out their Black History Month 2022 booklist for ideas if you do not live in Toronto. 
• Mary’s Brigadeiro: Box of Brazilian chocolate
• Jonah’s box: Self-care box
• Charmberries: Box of chocolate covered strawberries
• Blooming Flower Bar: Flowers  
• Bracken Cove: Cards

• WordsAndWondersCA: Cards
• FranMurray.co: Baked goods

Planners

• Hustlers Agenda
• The Success System 

Branding, Marketing, and Business Development Services 

• Beaver Marketing: Marketing and website design
• Mammothic Design: Digital marketing agency

• Designed by Az: Branding and website design

• Banki Designs: Design, branding, and social media packages
• Pitch Better: Small businesses development 
• Ad Meliora: Personalized strategic communication services for women and people of color entrepreneurs
• She Empowers:  Consulting and marketing company that focuses on helping B2B SaaS and eCommerce businesses
• SASS Marketing Agency: Full-Service Marketing Services for BIPOC Businesses
• Top Writing Services Inc.: Marketing consultation and business writing services
• Group 3737: Business incubator for people of diversity
• Monique Bryan: Personal brand development

Other Services

• The Black Canadian Guild of Virtual Assistants: Virtual assistants and social media managers.  

• Nola Designs: Interior design for office spaces

• Assured Parcel: On-demand delivery service in Brampton and Mississauga
• Lee's Spotless Cleaners & Organizing Services Inc: Office cleaning and/or organization (Brampton) 
• Makeshift Workspace: Coworking space and virtual office (Vancouver)
• BOMCAS MEDIA: Photography and video production services (Edmonton)
• My Dope Tee: Custom branded clothing

• We Print What you Want: Printing services for business cards, custom apparel, stickers, labels, flyers etc.
• Black Femme Legal: "Black Femme Legal is an award-winning workplace toolkit for Black queer women, femmes and gender diverse folks across the 2SLGBTQI+ spectrum in Ontario needing workplace-related support." 
• Samantha Clarke: Lawyer turned photographer
• DF Media Productions: Video production services

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Other Buy-Black Directories

• Afrobiz.ca (Canada-wide)
• Narcity (Canada-wide)
• Canadian Black Chamber of Commerce (Canada-wide)
• The Black Market (Canada-wide)
• Unite Prosper (Canada-wide)
• ByBlacks.com (Canada-wide)
• Digital Alberta (Alberta)
• Simon Fraser University (British Columbia)
• Black Owned Toronto (GTA)
• Black Execs (GTA)
• Blog TO (GTA)
• The Black Business Initiative (Nova Scotia)
• Black Owned Manitoba (Manitoba)
• Black Cultural Society (PEI)

Other Resources for Lawyers and Law firms

• Moving beyond diversity and inclusion. Some suggestions to work towards equity in the legal profession by Sana Chaudhry

• In their shoes. Stories of systemic racism from the legal profession by Seema Pandher, Alexandra Heine & Steven Lumbala

• Black History Month: We need to talk about Black labour by Rebecca Amoah