WE'RE EMPOWERING WOMEN
with our WE 360° program

This multi-week program, offered at no charge to participants, is specifically designed to help women of color overcome barriers in entrepreneurship.

What barriers? To start with, Black women entrepreneurs receive less than 1% of venture capital, are three times more likely to be denied loans, and receive lower loan amounts even when approved. Of 17% of new businesses begun by Black women, only 3% go on to become mature businesses. Yet the desire is there: Black women-owned businesses are up by nearly 30% compared to pre-pandemic levels. (Data courtesy of Black Women in Food) 

​In the spring of 2020, we launched our inaugural WE 360° program for women entrepreneurs of color to help them take their businesses to the next level... or to start one. Our 2020 workshop series each sold out within a day, as did our two 2021 spring workshop series... and now we're into 2022! See our 2022 dates.

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​How you can help

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​If you are a woman entrepreneur of color, please consider volunteering to speak to our WE 360° participants as a commencement speaker! Contact CJ, our women's and youth programs director.

Sponsor an individual woman entrepreneur of color to attend this workshop series! Click here.

​Organizations, sponsor this program! Contact LaVanda, our executive director.

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Keisha Smith, our WE 360° business growth coach

Whether you’d like to start, grow, or sustain a business, you’ll come away from this multi-week virtual series with the knowledge, tools, and confidence to do it!

Currently held via Zoom, space in each workshop series is limited to 10 women to enable personal attention and high-quality interaction.

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