IBSA Online

Business Networking at its BestAlliance of Black Business OwnersMission:       People helping people build businesses and jobs.       Facilitate the learning, discussion and collaboration of people building businesses.

Audience:       Anyone interested in starting or buying a business.       Anyone needing help with their existing business.       Anyone with experience starting, owning/operating . . . → Read More: An Entrepreneurs Network

News Release:
 
Government Stimulus Package Contracting Forum
 
Date:                    Thursday, February 11, 2010
Time:                    7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Where:                 Topeka/Shawnee County Public Library
                             1515 SW 10th Ave | Topeka, KS 66604
Room:                   Marvin Auditorium 101C
 
The aim of the forum is to share timely information regarding the many subcontracting opportunities that are currently being bidded out; as well as information on future contracting and procurement activities using funds . . . → Read More: Government Stimulus Package Contracting Forum…

Kansas to Celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Annual event to feature Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little of the University of Kansas 

Topeka, KS – Governor Mark Parkinson and the Kansas Commission on African American Affairs will host the Governor’s Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration on Thursday, January . . . → Read More: Kansas Governor’s Annual Dr. King Celebration

UNEMPLOYMENT AND JOB CREATION

The Challenge of the Green Economy

in the Urban Core Community

The World wants Black America to project success, but what we are really seeing every day is fewer Jobs and more Despair!

                  Economic                       Community                Human Resource                 Development —————– Development ————-  Development . . . → Read More: A Discussion on Kansas Regional Unemployment and Job Creation Strategies

 
Getting on the FastTrac | Topeka Capital-Journal, The | Find …
Dec 22, 2006 … Grays, founder of IBSA Inc., a provider of career counseling and enterprise … of the sales tax revenue went to minority business people. …

Company suing JEDO likely to meet deadline | Topeka Capital …
Aug 5, 2004 … W. Lazone Grays, president of . . . → Read More: Who Is Lazone Grays?

Now that we have the facts to back up the claim, the question becomes "what are we going to do about it"?
 
 

Blacks hit hard by economy's punch
34.5 percent of young African American men are unemployed

By V. Dion Haynes

Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Joblessness for 16-to-24-year-old black men has reached Great Depression proportions — 34.5 . . . → Read More: 34.5 percent of young African American men are unemployed!!

In order to succeed and combat the competitive online world, you need to maintain a good reputation online. A good reputation does not only require a good website design but a lot more to build confidence, to grow sales and ultimately leads to better revenues and higher profitability.

In today's Internet buzz nasty rumors, wrong opinions and . . . → Read More: 7 Tips to Maintain Your Website Reputation