WHY DO WE EXIST?

• Because the Black business community needs a controlling philosophy by which black communities will achieve greater self-sufficiency and because Black-owned businesses are key to the success of this movement. 

• Because the Black business community has a need to offer Black people new ways of seeing, thinking and behaving in all areas of business. 

• Because the Black business community needs a self-empowerment plan that presents new strategies for black Milwaukee’s intellectual, economic, and civic development. 

• Because the Black business community must have a plan to alter certain unacceptable behaviors among blacks towards one another. 

• Because the plan must be exclusive and call for a broad range of economic strategies to improve conditions within the Black business community, including the establishment of commitments and covenants to the community of Black business within the network.