To support the resiliency and growth of Black-owned small businesses, LISC and Nielsen Foundation have teamed up to provide technical assistance and small grants that can help entrepreneurs surmount the ravages of COVID and historic racial inequities. Part of the funding is earmarked for business development organizations (BDOs) that work with Black businesses based in centers of Black American culture—the Crenshaw district in LA, Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, St. Paul’s Rondo neighborhood, and Chicago’s South Shore.