Nationwide -- The Wish Local Empowerment Program is a $2M fund Wish that is dedicated to giving roughly 4,000 Black-owned businesses financial support. Businesses choose how to best utilize the funding, but suggestions include keeping your workforce employed, paying rent, or connecting with new customers.
It is no secret that Black businesses in America have suffered a tremendous loss during this recent pandemic. Chamber development and leadership development plans and strategies must work in parallel together to foster business growth in the Black Community in a sustainable manner many years into the future. Corporate support of diversity initiatives in the Black community will continue to play a vital role in leveling the playing field in America.
“As President of the Long Island African American Chamber of Commerce, Inc. we have seen the direct correlation between chamber development and leadership development in the business sector as an opportunity to not only return businesses to prior levels, but help them to fuel their growth to the next level,” says Phil Andrews, President – Long Island African American Chamber of Commerce, Inc. – New York State’s largest Black Chamber of Commerce and the New York District Office of the United States Small Business Administration.
