It's difficult for anyone to triumph in business. Everybody has to make their own way. But women and minorities sometimes are trailblazers as well as entrepreneurs, figuring out how to break into industries where they face added difficulties: others' skepticism and, sometimes, discrimination. The things that might have stopped them simply made them work harder. Long Island Business News talked with a trio of African-American, Hispanic and female business people about their experience as entrepreneurs. Here are their stories. Henry Holley
Three California African American business people describe the obstacles to business even with affirmative action. Without these programs, new Black entrepreneurs will find it difficult to maintain viable companies. Nonwhites are moving away from fairness as the attacks on affirmative action increase.
Based on the group's commitment to the community, youth and education, the Pittsburgh Club of the NANBPWC donated $1,000 to the school to purchase books for their new library. Working with the Propel School enables NANBPWC to continue with its mission to promote and protect the interests of African-American business and professional women; to serve as a bridge for young people seeking to enter business and professional careers; to improve the quality of life in our communities by preparing the next generation of community leaders, entrepreneurs and professionals by passing the torch to youths with scholarships and other activities. CONTRIBUTING TO THE FUTURE-Students and Propel School administrators happily receive a contribution from the Pittsburgh chapter of the National Association o...
Optimism runs high among African-American entrepreneurs. That makes people like Jim Thompson more likely to start a business than his white counterparts, who tend to fear failure, new research shows.
Know the business you are in, know the game and know people," said [Ruth Byrd-Smith], director of the Allegheny County Minority/Women/Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Department. Noting that the NANBPWC is a valuable group to be involved with, she encouraged the crowd of approximately 150 to build their own destiny. "See yourself in the role you want to be in. Dream and believe in yourself. Never think you can't do something," she said, ending with [Mary McLeod Bethune]'s quote. The Sojourner Truth Award is the NANBPWC's highest award presented annually. In terms of Walker's contributions to community life as an educator, administrator, adviser and officer in the various organizations in which she participates, the Pittsburgh club considers her service comparable to Sojourner Truth's....
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African American business people and entrepreneurs are demonstrating ways to enhance their success in getting sales via trade show exhibits. In addition to the normal series of annual mainstream trade shows, there are shows targeted towards African American businesses. Such events as the Business-to-Business Expo run by Black Enterprise magazine help these business people create new links to distributors. What is critical is that the right trade shows are selected since exhibit costs thousands of dollars. It is necessary, also, to establish contact with businesses, whose contracts are sought, before the trade show to insure that networking is effective and productive at the shows.
The cohort of Black business people and politicians who pass for African American leadership is at an impasse. Our leaders have failed to produce economic development models for inner cities and poor Black enclaves that benefit the people who live there. Not only is the Black leadership class unable to create jobs at living wages for the hundreds of thousands of Black families that desperately need them, they can't even describe to the rest of America how such a thing might be done. They dare not acknowledge the acute shortage of low and moderate-income tousing or publicly question programs that exacerbate that shortage. Black leadership has proven powerless to prevent the nationwide imposition of separate and grossly unequal education, the disastrous application of high-stakes testing...
Comerica was delighted to be a sponsor of the Freedom Institute's Power Economics Luncheon," said Rhonda Davenport, Comerica Bank first vice president and co-chair of Comerica's African American Business Initiative. "I think the title was appropriate. In order to have freedom, people must be empowered. Economic empowerment is so important and must stay at the front of our mind. All of our decisions about future progress should include our youth. "The national threat is not in Iraq. It's not in the Middle East. It's right in our own backyard," [Susan Taylor] said. "We are each other's keeper. The best thing we can do for our community is to stand strong for ourselves." "God doesn't want you to look down on one soul, unless you're reaching down to pick someone up. It starts with us," sh...
There long has been a need for viable black magazines in Milwaukee to document African-American life and offer hope to young people, but few have had the capital and business acumen to pull it off. Publishing is a tough business to break into. Research shows that 60% of new magazines fail within their first year.
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