Showing posts with label women. Show all posts
Showing posts with label women. Show all posts
Black women struggle to fund startups
From the trunk of her Toyota Corolla, 53-year-old Charmaine DaCosta delivers her Jamaican limeade to grocery stores and delis in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
"I do my own delivery, make the product and I [watch] over every process," DaCosta said of her beverage company Limation. "All the financial responsibility falls squarely on me."
DaCosta is one of many minority female entrepreneurs driving the market -- it's the fastest growing demographic launching businesses. And in fact, minority women lead over 25% of the 8 million female-owned businesses in the United States, according to the Center for American Progress.
The challenge for most African-American women isn't the entrepreneurial spirit, it's having sufficient access to funding and venture capital, according to CAP, a Washington D.C.-based think tank.
via CNN Money
HER Story - Santana Lipscomb (a video series by World Wide Women Group)
HER Story is a video series by World Wide Women Group and it focuses on telling the everyday story of what women in the world are faced with. This video features Santana Lipscomb, who is a seminary student at Regent University and she talks about the challenges of repairing an estranged relationship with her father, as well as following her calling of being in seminary school. Powered by The Rebel Society.
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