JLMN Inc Annual Holiday Market Supports Black Owned Businesses

Junior League Montclair-Newark, Inc. Annual Holiday Market Supports Black Owned Businesses

Montclair, NJ (JLMN) December 3, 2020 - Small businesses are an essential part of the U.S. economy and the coronavirus pandemic has disproportionately affected small black businesses during these tough economic times. To address this disparity the Junior League of Montclair- Newark is focusing their Annual Holiday Market on a selected number of local Black businesses from the surrounding communities.
“It has been proven that this type of local support provides valuable business exposure in the local community and in some cases becomes an essential lifeline to local businesses staying afloat”. Said JLMN President Heather LeClair.
The JLMN Holiday Bazaar will provide these business greater exposure to our members and will feature the following selected businesses: Bisa Butler Fine Art, Celebrity Chef Lance Knowlings, Celebrations From the Soul, Grand Moving Services, Chez Bebe, Daddy's Greek Potato Pie, Linto, JamNetworkTV, Nitjuan Designs, Ritta Books and SteelMclean Products. Final list will be available at https://www.jlmn.org/?nd=Holiday_Market

The 2020 “JLMN Holiday Market” promotions will occur throughout the holiday season, run across the JLMN Nonprofit’s marketing and social media channels inclusive of Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and its main JLMN.ORG website. In addition, a number of local articles and press releases will be promoted on local news sites to benefit the selected businesses. CCMinton - JLMN Sustaining Member stated “This increased exposure is intended to help these businesses gain additional exposure in the local community but also across the national, international community of Junior Leagues.”

For more information please visit www.jlmn.org and click on Holiday Market.

About Junior League Montclair Newark - JLMN
The JLMN is a supportive, amazing organization of women whose mission is to promote voluntarism, develop the potential of women and improve the community through trained volunteers. Our reach is magnified by the training that we receive with the JLMN, which we then bring to every other organization that we work with in the future. Our members include business owners, working mothers, professional women and stay-at-home moms from diverse backgrounds – and all are volunteers working together to build a better community. The focus of the JLMN is to provide support, advocacy and awareness of the plight of children and youth people within and who have aged out of the foster care system.

About Association of Junior League International - AJLI
While the local Junior League Montclair-Newark is focused on promoting voluntarism and developing the potential of women & improving the surrounding Montclair- Newark community. It’s parent organization, the Association of Junior League International (https://www.ajli.org/) was founded in 1901 by social activist Mary Harriman, The Junior League has evolved into one of the oldest, largest, and most effective women’s volunteer organizations in the world, encompassing more than 125,000 women in over 290 Leagues in four countries.