Displaying items by tag: Mentorship

With the help of a $300,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the HBA has launched The Lillian Project to help low-income, African American women in Harlem become entrepreneurs. TNJ Senior Editor Sergie Willoughby recently spoke to Gina Ramcharan, project director of The Lillian Project, and Regina Smith, exec. dir. of the HBA, to find out...

Two longtime D.C. entrepreneurs, Tony Cord and Michel Daley, have offered a new pathway toward opportunity....

A Spelman grad is making her mark as one of the top UNIGLOBE Travel International franchise owners. The U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Columbus District Office has announced the winners of its 2016 Small Business Awards competition, and Elizabeth Blount McCormick, president and co-owner of UNIGLOBE Travel Designers, was named the...

As CEO of ChemicoMays L.L.C., Leon Richardson has worked with more than 20 different minority businesses from a mentoring perspective over the last 10 years.“I work with 250 minority suppliers as co-chair of the General Motors Minority Supplier Council. I a...

Miami will be the first city outside of New Orleans to have a bricks and mortar office for PowerMoves, a national initiative to increase the number of Blacks, who own high-tech, venture-capital backed companies. PowerMoves will bring its pitch competition, boot camps, networking events and fellowships, as well as provide space for entrepreneurs to...

This famous investor got his start sweeping up in a Queens bodega after school. Now, he's a best-selling author....

Shawn Prez isn't your typical CEO. He also isn't the average business owner....

Mike Muse, CEO of the record label Muse Recordings, is leading the conversations around the country on the business of music, pop culture and its intersection with politics. For years he has been connecting youth and millennials through his work with President Barak Obama, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, and New York Mayor De Blasio to name a few....

A study of 100 American cities, facilitated by Measure of America (an initiative of the Social Science Research Council), found that segregation is still affecting…...

Moziah Bridges is the founder of Mo's Bows, bow tie and men's fashion accessories company....