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AABLC Black-Owned Business Directory African American Business Leaders Council · a division of the Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce

Community Impact Dashboard

The directory that measures what it moves.

Most Buy-Black directories list businesses. Ours reports the data behind them, verified, current, and open to the community it serves.

272 verified Black-owned businesses across Lehigh & Northampton counties
87Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber members
22industry categories
25communities across two counties
100%verified to a 7-point standard

The economic map

Where the Black economy of the Lehigh Valley lives and works.

Every listing is tagged by industry and community, so the directory doubles as a live map of local Black enterprise, from the barber's chair to the boardroom.

Businesses by category

Leading 10 of 22 industry categories, by verified listings

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Businesses by community

Leading 10 of 25 communities, by verified listings

Allentown, Bethlehem and Easton anchor the directory, with a growing footprint into the boroughs and the Poconos.

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Verified and current

A directory is only as good as the day it was last checked.

Every business is confirmed against a 7-point standard before it is listed, and every listing carries a dated freshness stamp so the public knows exactly how current it is.

100% Verified listings All 272 businesses confirmed against a 7-point standard.
94% Carry a photo 256 of 272 listings show the business, not just a name.
171 Published hours Listings with hours a customer can act on today.
Dated Freshness stamp Every listing shows the month it was last verified.
Black-owned confirmed Real, reachable business Named category Community located Current contact Photo where available Dated re-verification
Measurement · now live

The number no other local directory can show yet: dollars that stay.

The directory now feeds the Dollar Router, the measurement engine that turns Buy-Black from a slogan into a number. It is live today, and circulation data accrues as the community connects its spending to the businesses on this list.

Dollars circulated

Spend routed to verified Black-owned businesses, counted as it moves, not estimated after the fact.

Accruing now

Businesses supported

How many of the 272 are actually receiving routed community spend, tracked business by business.

Accruing now

Local jobs held

The employment these businesses sustain, the deeper return on every dollar that stays in the Valley.

Roadmap

Honest framing: we do not publish a dollar total we cannot yet stand behind. The engine is live and the numbers are being built the right way, from real transactions, so that when this dashboard reports circulation, funders and press can trust every digit.

Free for the businesses. Built by the community.

There is no fee to be listed. The AABLC Black-Owned Business Directory is verified, maintained, and measured as a public asset for the Greater Lehigh Valley, and it grows every week.

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