Oct 3, 2022 | Entrepreneurship, Investment
Foot Locker, Inc. is dedicated to supporting Black Entrepreneurs through its Leading Education & Economic Development (LEED) Initiative that boasts a $200 million commitment to the Black community. To date, the company has pumped nearly $54 million into...
Sep 12, 2022 | Higher Education, Investment
North Carolina A&T, the country’s biggest historically Black college, received about $7 million a year in donations in the early 2010s before a multiyear fundraising campaign raised that to an average of about $15 million annually from 2017 to 2019. Then the world...
Aug 29, 2022 | Business, Investment, Women
Morning Insider Lauren Victory shares a story about women of color not only empowering women of color – but also investing in them. “I like, you know, going room by room, corner by corner,” said Janeen Harrell piecing through drawings of a...
May 31, 2022 | Higher Education, Investment
Earlier this month, the graduates of the historic Wiley College were given a pleasant surprise. More than 100 students in the 2022 graduating class won’t have to worry about paying their final balances to the Texas-based HBCU after an anonymous...
May 31, 2022 | Investment, Women
It wouldn’t be the first time The Enterprise Center’s West Philadelphia headquarters has been a site where Black folks from the area have broken barriers into spaces previously reserved for white folks. As told in Matthew Delmont’s “The Nicest Kids in Town,” when the...
Apr 25, 2022 | Business, Entrepreneurship, Investment
An ambitious new initiative supported by community organizations and government leaders to promote the successful development of Black-owned businesses in the Portland region was announced on Monday, April 25. The Black Business Association-Oregon has hired Lance...
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