WIBO

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245 West 17th Street, 11th Floor
New York, NY 10011
212-684-0854
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Description:

The Workshop in Business Opportunities (WIBO) began in 1966 in response to the absence of economic power in the African-American community. The founders, a Midtown marketing consultant and a Harlem attorney, felt that economic, political and social equality could be achieved most quickly and effectively by training and assisting minorities to build growing prosperous businesses.



WIBO's first sixteen-week workshop, How to Build a Growing Profitable Business, opened in Harlem on March 5, 1966. Fifteen students enrolled, fourteen graduated and eleven either started businesses or expanded existing businesses. Word of WIBO's success quickly spread and within five years, WIBO workshops were being conducted in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, New Jersey and Westchester.



WIBO's mission is to enable small business owners and budding entrepreneurs from underserved communities to obtain financial success by starting, operating, and building successful businesses that develop economic power, provide jobs and improve communities.

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