The World Bank today approved $200 million to help the Government of Ghana increase access to broadband, enhance the efficiency and quality of selected digital public services, and strengthen the digital innovation ecosystem in Ghana to help create better jobs and economic opportunities. Digital is one of Ghana’s best-performing sectors…
Black Innovation Alliance and Village Capital Launch Project to Build Infrastructure for Founders of Color
Black Innovation Alliance and Village Capital Launch Project to Build Infrastructure for Founders of Color
Resource is the first-ever country-wide project to support entrepreneur support organizations led by and focused on entrepreneurs of color.
Published 04-07-21
Submitted by Moody s Corporation
San Francisco, CA and Washington, DC, April 7, 2021 /CSRwire/ Black Innovation Alliance and Village Capital today announced R
esource, the first-ever country-wide project in the United States to support entrepreneur support organizations (ESOs) led by and focused on founders of color.
ESOs face record demand, declining resources and are chronically underestimated, underappreciated and underfunded. Through this project, local accelerators and incubators will provide the contextualized support the founders need to grow and scale.
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San Francisco, CA and Washington, DC, April 7, 2021 /3BL Media/ Black Innovation Alliance and Village Capital today announced R
esource, the first-ever country-wide project in the United States to support entrepreneur support organizations (ESOs) led by and focused on founders of color.
ESOs face record demand, declining resources and are chronically underestimated, underappreciated and underfunded. Through this project, local accelerators and incubators will provide the contextualized support the founders need to grow and scale.
The goal of the project is to create a stronger entrepreneurial infrastructure to support founders of color across the United States. It will do so in two ways:
December 23, 2020 |
Africa
ImpactAlpha Editor
Dmitry Fotiyev
ImpactAlpha, Dec 23 – Emerging market entrepreneurs have to thread the needle when pricing their products and services: too low, and they won’t generate the revenues and profits they need to grow; too high and they’ll price themselves out of the very population segments they are targeting for impact.
In Senegal’s capital of Dakar, even before COVID-19 hit, one may have noticed the remnants of colorful fast-casual food service points that are now closed down and gathering dust.
Tangus, an innovative street food service, aimed to be a hygienic improvement over local neighborhood canteens. The outfit secured numerous locations around Dakar in 2016 and, with much fanfare, commenced serving a mixture of local and Western on-the-go meals.