Women’s Entrepreneurship
ASCENDUS
Ascendus is a nonprofit community development financial institution with a mission to empower low-to moderate-income business owners with access to capital and financial education. Ascendus’ New York City Small Business Lending and Financial Education for Women Program will empower women entrepreneurs with the knowledge and means to grow their personal financial health, support their families, and create employment opportunities for other women in New York City.
Custom Collaborative
Custom Collaborative trains, mentors, and advocates for and with no/low-income and immigrant women to build the skills necessary to achieve economic success in the sustainable fashion industry and broader society. Their Training Institute, Business Incubator, and Worker-Owned Cooperative Development programs equip women with tangible skills, from garment design and production to business management, fostering their expertise and confidence to excel in various fields, especially within the fashion industry.
Hot Bread Kitchen
Hot Bread Kitchen’s mission is to create economic opportunity for women and gender-expansive people, immigrants, and people of color through job skills training, food entrepreneurship programs, and an ecosystem of support in New York City. Funding will support HBK Incubates, a food entrepreneurship program that supports the leadership development of women of color in New York City by advancing their small businesses.
Staten Island Chamber of Commerce Foundation
The mission of the Staten Island Chamber of Commerce Foundation is to support and advance small business and business technology development in Staten Island through charitable, educational and commercial revitalization programs. The Leading Ladies Collective inaugural cohort will bring together 12 women-owned business enterprises in Staten Island for a series of leadership development programming.
Welcome to Chinatown
Welcome to Chinatown’s mission is to amplify and address the critical needs of the Chinatown community and its API entrepreneurs, through a robust offering of community and capacity building initiatives, grants, and resources. Their Coach, Connect, Invest, Innovate program will provide curated programming to women small business owners and entrepreneurs in Manhattan’s Chinatown community.