Walker’s Legacy, a quarterly lecture series dedicated to furthering the interests of business women of color, is teaming up with Comcast and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund to sponsor a series of events highlighting women of color in tech. The lecture series will feature multicultural women who have successfully forged a career path in the […]
The U.S. population is aging, and so is the American workforce. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one out of every five American workers today is currently over the age of 55. By 2020, that number will be closer to one in four. Further, while the overall rate of on-the-job injuries […]
Are you an entrepreneur in search of seed money to expand your business? Are you georgraphically flexible and not afraid of a little (OK, a lot) of snow? If so, you might want to take a look at the latest competition from 43North, an accelerator program that invests $5 million each year in innovators who […]
The NYC Department of Small Business Services is sponsoring a series of free entrepreneurial training courses for minority and women-owned business in the five boroughs of New York. Known as FastTrac®, the series features courses aimed at both emerging and established businesses with the goal of helping them reach their next level of success. FastTrac® […]
In virtually every state in the U.S., workers compensation laws protect employees, providing them with paid medical care if they are injured on the job and replacement wages if they are unable to work. But in today’s growing gig economy, the rights of so-called gig workers, including the right to workers comp, are increasingly unclear. […]
The city of Memphis, Tennessee, is joining forces with FedEx and several other public/private partners to offer 75 black entrepreneurs in the region help in growing their businesses. The partners in the initiative include FedEx, Regions Bank, and the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City,an organization that promotes urban prosperity throughout the United States. The […]
It’s mid-May, and young people all over the country are starting to flock to various workplaces looking for summer jobs. Many have already secured employment, while others are still searching for the perfect gig. But since young people are typically more concerned about making money than they are about whether a workplace is safe, many […]
Historically, access to capital has been one of the most fundamental challenges for MWBEs. Despite robust financial assistance programs in states like New York, women and minorities continue to have less access to traditional financing than white male entrepreneurs. And while the lending gap narrowed to some extent in 2018, many MWBEs still find it […]
