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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?

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.

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.

I left the conference full and ready to make moves. The resources offered coupled with the networking was phenomenal. Thank you for allowing me to share my dreams with you. From listening to my pitch to stopping by our table to sharing words of encouragement... I feel blessed.

I am most grateful that The Shoe-B allows me to continue our work in Haiti. A percentage of the sale of each Shoe-B goes towards the Survival Kit Drive for Haiti initiative"

- Vicki Sylvain | Creator/Owner | The Shoe-B

Your conference was a wonderful networking experience!

- Ivoire Lloyd

"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!

As you pour into more young entrepreneurs, I pray you see and reap the harvest of your labor and greater manifestations of the work that you do for others. May continual blessings of favor and prosperity be upon you and the women connected to Women in the Black and The Brownstone"

- Imani Perlie