CHANGE THE NARRATIVE. CHANGE THE DOLLAR. CHANGE THE FUTURE.
Blackout Black Friday™ transforms the biggest shopping weekend of the year into a moment of intentional economic power.
Support businesses. Build connections. Circulate opportunity. Strengthen communities.
ONE CHOICE.
A RIPPLE OF IMPACT.
Blackout Black Friday™ turns individual decisions into collective momentum. When consumers intentionally support participating businesses, the economic impact travels beyond a single purchase.
You
Choose.
Instead of treating Black Friday as simply another shopping day, consumers make an intentional choice about where their dollars go.
Businesses
Grow.
Participating businesses gain visibility, customers, connections, and opportunities to grow through a movement designed to direct attention toward them.
Networks
Connect.
Consumers, entrepreneurs, creators, organizations, and community leaders become part of a connected ecosystem through ConnectWork™.
Communities
Strengthen.
More connections create more opportunity, stronger businesses, and a foundation for future generations.
CHOICE
BUSINESS
NETWORK
OPPORTUNITY
BBF IS NOT ABOUT ONE PURCHASE.
It's about what happens when millions of choices move in the same direction.
PUT YOUR DOLLAR
IN MOTION.
Discover businesses, creators, entrepreneurs, and community builders participating in Blackout Black Friday™. Every intentional purchase can become part of something bigger.
Featured Fashion Brand
Discover apparel, accessories, and products created by entrepreneurs building culture through commerce.
EXPLORE BUSINESS →Featured Food Business
Support local food entrepreneurs while discovering restaurants, chefs, caterers, and community favorites.
EXPLORE BUSINESS →Featured Beauty Brand
Discover beauty professionals, creators, salons, products, and entrepreneurs serving their communities.
EXPLORE BUSINESS →Featured Creative Studio
Meet photographers, designers, artists, media creators, and entrepreneurs turning creativity into opportunity.
EXPLORE BUSINESS →NO MATCHES FOUND
Try another business name or category.
Is your business part of the movement?
DON'T JUST
JOIN THE MOVEMENT.
HELP BUILD IT.
Blackout Black Friday™ gives businesses an opportunity to be discovered by consumers who are intentionally choosing where their dollars go.
Your business becomes more than a listing. It becomes a connection point inside a growing economic network.
GET DISCOVERED
Put your business in front of consumers looking for participating businesses.
BUILD CONNECTIONS
Connect with entrepreneurs, creators, organizations, and potential partners.
AMPLIFY YOUR STORY
Share what makes your business unique with the wider BBF community.
GROW THE NETWORK
Help create a stronger ecosystem of opportunity and community commerce.
COULD BE
HERE.
Add your business to the BBF ecosystem and become part of the network.
FIVE DAYS.
ONE MOVEMENT.
From Black Friday through December 1, consumers, businesses, creators, and communities come together to turn intentional spending into collective momentum.
START THE BLACKOUT.
Make your first intentional purchase. Discover participating businesses and begin circulating your dollars within the community.
FIND A NEW BUSINESS.
Discover an entrepreneur, creator, restaurant, service provider, or brand you haven't supported before.
SHARE THEIR STORY.
A purchase is powerful. A recommendation can be even more powerful. Share a participating business with your network.
CONNECT WITH PURPOSE.
Introduce a business owner to a customer, creator to a brand, or organization to a community. One connection can create another opportunity.
TURN MEMORY INTO MOMENTUM.
Gather. Reflect. Celebrate. Give. December 1 is the moment when the economic blackout becomes a celebration of community, legacy, and possibility.
CHANGE THE
NARRATIVE.
CHANGE THE
DOLLAR.
CHANGE THE
FUTURE.
Don't just watch
the movement.
ONE CHOICE
CAN TRAVEL.
When one person chooses to support a business, that choice can create income, opportunity, relationships, jobs, and new possibilities. When thousands make that choice together, the impact becomes a movement.
SUPPORT
Your purchase gives a participating business another opportunity to grow.
CIRCULATE
Dollars spent intentionally can continue moving through families and communities.
CONNECT
One customer can become a relationship, a referral, or a new opportunity.
BUILD
Repeated choices can help create stronger businesses and stronger communities.
YOUR DOLLAR HAS A DESTINATION.
Blackout Black Friday™ asks a simple question: What happens when we become more intentional about where our money goes?
We believe the answer begins with one person, one business, one purchase — and grows through connection.
START THE RIPPLE.
DISCOVER.
SUPPORT.
CONNECT.
Discover businesses, creators, entrepreneurs, and community organizations participating in Blackout Black Friday™. Every intentional connection creates another opportunity for the movement to grow.
Your Featured
Business
Showcase your business, products, and story to consumers looking to intentionally support participating businesses.
Black-Owned
Marketplace
Discover products and brands from entrepreneurs helping build the next generation of community commerce.
Local
Entrepreneurs
Find professionals, service providers, and entrepreneurs ready to connect with customers and build meaningful relationships.
Creators &
Artists
Support musicians, artists, photographers, designers, creators, and storytellers shaping today's culture.
Community
Brands
Find clothing, products, lifestyle brands, and entrepreneurs creating products with purpose.
Your Business
Could Be Here.
Join Blackout Black Friday™ and put your business in front of consumers looking to support the movement.
JOIN THE DIRECTORY ↗
BUSINESSES
NEED
CUSTOMERS.
CUSTOMERS
NEED
CONNECTION.
PUT YOUR BUSINESS
ON THE MAP.
Join the BBF directory and become part of a growing network built around connection, commerce, and community.
EVERY BUSINESS
HAS A STORY.
Blackout Black Friday™ is powered by entrepreneurs, creators, families, and community builders who are creating opportunity every day.
Built With
Purpose.
Behind every product is a person. Behind every storefront is a dream. And behind every growing business is a community of people who chose to believe in it.
Blackout Black Friday™ creates a platform where those stories can be discovered, shared, and supported.
01
More Than
A Business
Local businesses create jobs, relationships, experiences, and opportunities that reach far beyond their doors.
READ STORY ↗
02
Built By
Connection
Collaboration between businesses and communities creates possibilities that no individual can build alone.
READ STORY ↗
03
Creating
What's Next
Today's entrepreneurs are helping create the businesses, jobs, and opportunities that future generations will inherit.
READ STORY ↗We don't just want people to buy. We want them to believe.BLACKOUT BLACK FRIDAY™
YOUR STORY
DESERVES TO BE SEEN.
CONNECT
WITH PURPOSE.
ConnectWork™ brings businesses, consumers, creators, and communities together so opportunity can move through the network.
FIND YOUR PLACE IN THE NETWORK.
THE DAY
THE MOVEMENT
COMES TOGETHER.
December 1 is more than a date. It is a moment to remember the courage that changed history — and to ask what we can do with that courage today.
From Black Friday to December 1, every connection, every business supported, and every action taken helps carry the story forward.
BLACKOUT BLACK FRIDAY™
CHANGE THE DOLLAR.
CHANGE THE FUTURE.
One purchase. One connection. One decision at a time. Together, we can build something bigger than Black Friday.
