Low Interest Small Business Loans for NYC Entrepreneurs
If you’re a NYC-based business – a startup, growth-stage business, or needing a boost after the pandemic – our NYC Small Business Opportunity Fund is a trusted, affordable way for you to invest in your business.
The NYC Small Business Opportunity Fund is made possible through public-private partnerships with Goldman Sachs’ One Million Black Women, Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, Community Reinvestment Fund, USA (CRF), local Community Development Financial Institutions(CDFIs), and small business service centers.
Call 888-SBS-4NYC or visit SBSOpportunityFund.nyc for questions or help with your application.
- No minimum credit score required
- Loans up to $250,000 at 4% fixed interest rate
- Free business support
- Easy to apply
- No application fee
The NYC Small Business Opportunity Fund is made possible through public-private partnerships with Goldman Sachs’ One Million Black Women, Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, Community Reinvestment Fund, USA (CRF), local Community Development Financial Institutions(CDFIs), and small business service centers.
Call 888-SBS-4NYC or visit SBSOpportunityFund.nyc for questions or help with your application.
Pay Ownership Valuation Inequalities | The Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center
Workbooks for Small Business Owner
Three organizations, the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center, Fair Pay Workplace and Penn State University, and KPMG have come together, thanks to the generous support of the Wells Fargo Foundation, to build this set of interactive tools to empower you – at the earliest stages of your company – to think consciously about pay and pay principals – starting with yourself.
Fair compensation strikes at the heart of human dignity. You, as a business owner, have a unique opportunity to set up fair pay and compensation practices from the beginning. How do you want to align your values and build wealth for yourselves, your families, communities, and the world?
Fair compensation strikes at the heart of human dignity. You, as a business owner, have a unique opportunity to set up fair pay and compensation practices from the beginning. How do you want to align your values and build wealth for yourselves, your families, communities, and the world?
After recession, a Black business boom
Black entrepreneurs who expanded during covid now face the challenge of labor shortages, supply chain delays and inflation
May 2, 2022
The rib joint and whiskey bar that Terri Evans opened in the South Loop of Chicago with her 401(k) savings drew mostly tourists and convention-goers — until the coronavirus pandemic and stay-at-home orders swept the country beginning March 2020. Evans worried about keeping her 12 full-time employees on the payroll.
“When things went dark, they went really dark,” said Evans, 47. “It was time to get creative and a little scrappy.”
She decided to start a new business delivering food and liquor to the city’s boating community, spread among Chicago’s 10 harbors in Lake Michigan.
“When things went dark, they went really dark,” said Evans, 47. “It was time to get creative and a little scrappy.”
She decided to start a new business delivering food and liquor to the city’s boating community, spread among Chicago’s 10 harbors in Lake Michigan.
Presidents Message:
Here we are in 2022 still feeling the effects of Coivd-19 and the Omicron variant. Businesses are faced with the difficult reality that this pandemic has made it nearly impossible to plan for the future. Entrepreneurs are moving fearlessly forward yet they remain anxious. These pervasive challenges and systematic barriers continue to have an impact on African American female entrepreneurs.
Our goal in 2022 is to be intentional and laser focused on helping our businesses to stabilize and increase their income. Our annual Who’s The Boss Business conference is scheduled for Saturday June 11th, this year’s theme is “RESET”. We will assist you in ushing in a pathway forward that will: build your resilience, strengthen your resolve and empower you to think in new ways.
The mental health of our women entrepreneurs continues to be a concern for us. Last year through a partnership with Healthfirst we developed a nine (9) part mental health series on Zoom. Leading doctors and health professionals covered the following topics: Stress & Isolation, Sleep Disorders, Racism, Suicide, Guilt, Gender Bias and the Stigmas around mental health for people of color. We have uploaded select videos here on our website.
We will continue to engage community nonprofits and financial lenders to provide grants along with low to no interest loans to assist in the equitable recovery of our women business owners. We also encourage you to become a vocal advocate in your own small business recovery. Engage with local leadership through phone calls, emails and community board meetings etc. Advocate for additional resources and service. Together we can usher in CHANGE.
Princess Jenkins
President
Our goal in 2022 is to be intentional and laser focused on helping our businesses to stabilize and increase their income. Our annual Who’s The Boss Business conference is scheduled for Saturday June 11th, this year’s theme is “RESET”. We will assist you in ushing in a pathway forward that will: build your resilience, strengthen your resolve and empower you to think in new ways.
The mental health of our women entrepreneurs continues to be a concern for us. Last year through a partnership with Healthfirst we developed a nine (9) part mental health series on Zoom. Leading doctors and health professionals covered the following topics: Stress & Isolation, Sleep Disorders, Racism, Suicide, Guilt, Gender Bias and the Stigmas around mental health for people of color. We have uploaded select videos here on our website.
We will continue to engage community nonprofits and financial lenders to provide grants along with low to no interest loans to assist in the equitable recovery of our women business owners. We also encourage you to become a vocal advocate in your own small business recovery. Engage with local leadership through phone calls, emails and community board meetings etc. Advocate for additional resources and service. Together we can usher in CHANGE.
Princess Jenkins
President
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Wow... Words can not express how grateful how blessed I feel to have had the opportunity to share the space with such dynamic individuals at the Who's the Boss: Women in the Black Conference. Both women and men believing that with commitment, knowledge and hard work.... realizing your dream is possible. Your conference was a wonderful networking experience! |
"Truly I am excited and so grateful for the invitation to your Women in the Black conference. I am thankful to you for thinking it not robbery to invite my father and I to be among positive and extraordinary women. No one would have imagined that eighteen years ago that the seed that you planted would yield increasing wealth for a community and generations to come! |
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PAST WINNERS OF THE TOP PITCH
Desiree Patton of Desiree By Designs
Yvonne Thevenot, Executive Director/Founder of STEM Kids NYC
Atinuke Akinwunmi CEO of PURh2O
Yvonne Thevenot, Executive Director/Founder of STEM Kids NYC
Atinuke Akinwunmi CEO of PURh2O
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