BOOM Concepts is a creative hub based in Pittsburgh dedicated to the advancement of POC and LGBTQIA creative entrepreneurs.  BOOM Concepts serves as a space for field building, knowledge sharing, peer to peer mentorship, and storytelling.  These actions provide a way for creatives to successfully navigate between nonprofit and for-profit sectors as a way to practice contemporarily while having some control their career trajectory.  Our action based strategies are inspired by examples of creative place-making and cultural space keeping projects such as Project Rowhouse (Houston, TX), Eastside Cultural Center (Oakland, CA), Stony Island Arts Bank (Chicago, IL), and AS220 (Providence, RI).