Covid required everyone to pivot … including us. For this year's Emerging Leaders program each participant was sent a toolkit with all the materials they needed for class to ease the transition into a virtual classroom.
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Join us on 10/15 for Inspire Enterprise’s Black Business Owners Forum! This event will help you BUILD capacity to increase revenues, LEARN how to get access to #capital, and DEVELOP key relationships through networking. Register today → https://t.co/vXtHUW8WEE @inspiretovision
Great to see @WellsFargo has dedicated a grant program for technical assistance as part of its $400M #OpenforBusiness small business recovery effort. For nonprofits, application launched today and are due Oct 23. https://t.co/xZUbv4xHTW
"Embrace fear and uncertainty... Write down what it is that the 'Great Pause' is creating for you and what are the fears that you are experiencing as a result?" - Brenda Anderson, lead expert for #InteriseStrong session: People First. #SmallBusiness#InclusiveEconomy
John Allcott, Managing Director at Edgetech Instruments, shares why he is 1 of 25 #entrepreneurs participating in this week's national #InteriseSTRONG cohort: "Very enlightening to hear what other people do, how other people approach problems, & learn from that" #InclusionMatters
.@AZCardinals use their star power to #SolveIt & spotlight & support locally-owned restaurants. "Locally-owned restaurants are the heart and soul of a community," Cardinals owner Michael Bidwill said. https://t.co/VUshMZ31Rw
Class in session! #InteriseStrong#SmallBusinesses now LIVE with first cohort of 1-week online program for Interise alumni. 200 more businesses will be served in April. This is what Interise does best — Close gaps in business knowledge, know-how, networks for #InclusiveEconomy!
In less than 1 hour, we have received 102 applications for #InteriseStrong! More than ever, it's critical for small businesses across #race and #place to have business knowledge, know-how, & #peer networks to navigate uncertainty & survive financial shock. https://t.co/fQzwLMsGmP
"Congress allocated just $10 million to @USMBDA out of the $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief bill. The MBDA connects minority-owned businesses with the capital, contracts, and markets they need to grow, but yet it received not even 1% of coronavirus relief assistance." #SolveIt
Another insight from our Panel: “Black dollars stay in black communities on avg 6 minutes. Money is not circulating.” -@mamapree81, Organizational Alignment Lead @ABEPMN
Kathleen Porcena of @BerkshireBank on our Patient Capital Models for Diverse, Small-Scale Manufacturers, “You can’t tackle procurement the same way you tackle local business development.” #Interise2020
.@thejacquijones, CEO of @OneDegreeMMM presents a new definition to the term “Stakeholder” to help ultimately answer the question “What does help look like?”— especially when it comes to the unspoken side effects of entrepreneurship. #Interise2020
.@davidedgertonjr leads #SolveIt Talk with @MichaelEPorter Value Chain: Different from the supply chain - that’s materials going upstream down to your customers. Value chain includes EVERYTHING that is needed by your company to be successful. Similar but different. #SolveIt
Two POWERFUL quotes from @CherylMckissack CEO of the oldest black owned architectural firm. 1) Take EVERY advantage & opportunity to overcome EVERY obstacle 2) Power brokers are decision makers that can MAKE things happen #BlackGirlMagic#solveit#smallbiz