Commerce partnership supports Carl Maxey Center in strengthening Black-owned businesses?
The Carl Maxey Center is one of Commerce's Small Business Resiliency Network partners supporting Black-owned businesses in the greater Spokane area.
 The?Carl Maxey Center?and?Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center?co-hosted February's Black Business Expo to showcase new community businesses and foster relationships.?
The Carl Maxey Center serves Black-owned businesses by creating space for new entrepreneurs, establishing economic stability, and lifting up businesses to promote growth and expansion.
?We?re here to bring stability to the Black community,? said Amos Atkinson, the Carl Maxey Center?s business and workforce development program coordinator. ?We?re hoping the community really gets behind this push to uplift lives.?
There?s a lot of creativity and passion in the Black community.?Vendors at the event ranged from brand new to established and regionally recognized.
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