We are a 501(c)3 nonprofit group of black business owners, entrepreneurs, and professionals who want to see the disadvantaged community flourish by helping the youth in this community become equipped with financial literacy and business development. We have come together with one single goal and that is to recreate group economics and change the trajectory of the urban landscape, by educating, encouraging, and creating financial freedom as well as business owners. By doing this we foster the opportunity for urban renewal within the community.
We Are Business Professionals with a Goal and Plan
At this time we have nine board members who are devoted to improving the economic development and group economics within the minority community.
We provide several ways to assist youth in learning how to get a wealth of information about financial literacy, business development, leadership and much more. However, we have changed how we teach this information to keep the youth from being bored. By taking the old antiquated way of learn out of the picture, our youth are responsive and engaged.
Our teaching methods are not like most. We prefer the hands-on approach. For example, we believe that it is important for youth to see role models who look like them encouraging change. Therefore, we look for minority professionals who are connected to the community to come in and teach our youth for them to look up to in the future.
Our methods are not traditional at all. Through games, song, history, art, science, technology, mathematics, engineering and any other avenue, we capture and maintain the attention of our youth allowing them to learn in a free form environment where they are able to engage while learning the information being taught.
Provide You with the Tools
Aside from education, we are creating opportunities for parents and young people to have the tools needed to become financially literate, business-minded, and community-aware. We understand that when tools are provided to become financially stable, parents are more likely to invest in the future of their offspring, and generational wealth can be accomplished.
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Board of Directors
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Advisory Board
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Kimberly Jefferson
Kimberly Jefferson is a whirlwind of positive energy and warmth, her smile radiating infectious enthusiasm
Chris Hendricks
Believer. Thinker. Innovator. Mold & Statistic Breaker. Husband. Father. I don’t fit into your box…
Ronald French
Owner of French Investments About Ron Ron French moved from Canton Ohio in 2000 to