PR maven Colette Phillips launches $250,000 fund to help small businesses owned by people of color
The nonprofit GK Fund will dole out $10,000 grants to entrepreneurs
By Jon Chesto Globe Staff,Updated February 17, 2021, 6:55 p.m.
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Colette Phillips has launched a nonprofit aimed at helping small businesses owned by people of color.
Colette Phillips, Andre Porter, and Michael Benezra got the idea to launch a fund for small businesses owned by people of color in 2019, before the pandemic and the George Floyd protests threw the issue of racial equity into stark relief.
Now, after the most tumultuous year in recent memory, their idea seems even more timely.