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By: Alesia Bani KEY INSIGHTS: Leading search engines like Indeed, LinkedIn and Glassdoor dominate the digital hiring market, but Black founders say…
By: Alesia Bani KEY INSIGHTS: Lack of job training and high rates of unemployment for formerly incarcerated people contribute to the high…
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Several Black-owned businesses based in Philadelphia received multi-million dollar investments in 2022.
Support organizations like 1Philadelphia,…
By: Alesia Bani
In October The Plug attended the Black and Brown Founders Chroma Conference in Philadelphia. The theme of the 2022 event: money. Founders, aspiring…
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Philadelphia has allocated over $200 million to violence prevention this year to address soaring gun violence; there…
By: Alesia Bani KEY INSIGHTS: The Black Squirrel Collective recently completed the first phase of its accelerator to train Black and brown…
By: Alesia Bani KEY INSIGHTS: The Connect is focused on attracting and retaining Black and brown talent in Philadelphia by creating a…
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New organization Philadose is working to destigmatize psychedelics and psychedelic therapy through its social club, networking events…
By: Alesia Bani Key Insights: The Innovation League is a program developed by Coded by Kids to encourage careers in innovation and…
By: Alesia Bani KEY INSIGHTS: Black Innovation Alliance partnered with Google to give away a total of $50,000 to five Black-owned businesses.…
By: Alesia Bani KEY INSIGHTS: Sixty-seven percent of charitable giving in 2021 came from individuals rather than corporations and foundations, with millennials…
By: Alesia Bani KEY INSIGHTS While femtech funding is on the rise, reaching $1 billion in 2021, SheMatters founder said raising for…
By: Alesia Bani KEY INSIGHTS: Philadelphia-based REC Philly is expanding its creative incubator space to Miami with a recent $2 million investment…
By: Alesia Bani | Published on: Nov 29, 2022
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$11 million from the PAsmart initiative is being allocated to 26…
By: Alesia Bani | Published on: Nov 22, 2022
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1Philadelphia celebrates two year anniversary with an Innovation Weekend in the…
By: Alesia Bani | Published on: Nov 03, 2022
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Philadelphia’s Operations Transformation Fund is a $10 million grant to support…
By: Alesia Bani | Published on: Oct 21, 2022
Startup accelerators are a tool for founders and entrepreneurs to gain access to mentorship,…
By: Alesia Bani | Published on: Oct 18, 2022
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Mentor Connect is a mentorship program for entrepreneurs in Philadelphia powered…
By: Alesia Bani | Published on: Aug 04, 2022
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In 2021, 2,710 tech talent jobs were added in Philadelphia, but…
By: Alesia Bani | Published on: Sep 08, 2022
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Visible hands launched its second accelerator cohort to support 51 underrepresented…
By: Alesia Bani | Published on: Sep 15, 2022 Key Insights: Philly Startup Leader is launching a blockchain accelerator for Philadelphia-based founders. UPenn’s Wharton School…
By: Alesia Bani | Published on: Sep 20, 202 Key Insights: Philadelphia is a hub for food innovation with the new Philly…
By: Alesia Bani. |. Published on: Aug 18, 2022 Key Insights: Philadelphia ranked 27th on a list of cities dubbed as…
By: Alesia Bani |. Published on: Jun 15, 2022
Advancing Minorities’ Interest in Engineering (AMIE), a nonprofit coalition of corporations, government agencies and…
By: Alesia BaniPublished on: Sep 13, 2022
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This year’s Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs accelerator is focused on immersive technology startups.
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By: Alesia Bani
Published on: Jun 28, 2022
Business owners, scholars and ambassadors gathered at the African Business Roundtable at Temple University last week…
By: Alesia Bani | Published on: Aug 16, 2022
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Stimulus closed an oversubscribed $2.5 million seed round with Black Ops…
Show Me The Money BIPOC Media Still Waiting On Ad Spend
By Madhusmita Bora
The Chicago Defender, founded in 1905, featured the…
By: Alesia Bani Published on:Jun 27, 2022
Several female founders gathered at Coffee Cream & Dreams, a Black woman-owned coffee shop in the Fairmount…
By: Alesia Bani Published on: Jun 27, 2022
Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM) at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) has expanded…
By: Alesia Bani Published on: Jun 29, 2022
Key Insights: Cheyney University of Pennsylvania is developing a biotech incubator project for cell…
Here’s a roundup of the biggest Lively-HOOD-related topics of conversation recently on WURD Radio. Syreeta Scott, owner of Duafe Holistic Hair Salon,…
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All throughout Black History Month, Andrea Lawful Sanders highlighted Black entrepreneurs under age 20. Here are those interviews, in case…
The community-grounded accelerator program will provide $10K in grant funding and training to Philadelphia-area media entrepreneurs of color
Applications are now open…
No Seat At the Table Corporations Vowed to Diversify Their Boards So much for the racial reckoning This story is a collaboration…
Philly Shipyard Inc. (PSI) is seeking talented applicants for its 3-year apprenticeship training program! Select applicants will learn the welding skills needed to successfully contribute to the construction and…