One of the distinguishing features of the Foundation for Community Driven Innovation Equity in Entrepreneurship program is our focus on the fundamentals of small business ownership - like tonight's session on basic accounting tools, resources and best practices, led by FCDI CFO Steve Willingham. There were some great questions and conversation around the topic, too. We're excited about this new group of early and next stage entrepreneurs and honored to share a small part in their journey!
Equity in Entrepreneurship
职业培训和指导
Tampa，Florida 46 位关注者
FCDIs Equity in Entrepreneurship program seeks to bridge the race & gender equity gap in early stage entrepreneurship
关于我们
The Equity in Entrepreneurship program, or EquinEnt, aims to help bridge the race and gender equity gap in early stage entrepreneurship to help create more inclusive pathways to the Tampa Bay startup ecosystem . Hosted at the nonprofit Foundation for Community Driven Innovation‘s AMRoC Fab Lab at University Mall (soon to be RITHM at Uptown), Equinent participants have access to a dedicated community of mentors with expertise across a wide range of business fields, as well as rapid prototyping and fabrication resources and tools at AMRoC.
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https://equinent.org
Equity in Entrepreneurship的外部链接
- 所属行业
- 职业培训和指导
- 规模
- 2-10 人
- 总部
- Tampa，Florida
- 创立
- 2018
- 领域
- entrepreneurship、entrepreneurship education、mentoring、small business development、women owned business和minority owned business
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Congratulations to Equity in Entrepreneurship alum Ora Tanner for the well-deserved Tampa Bay Business Journal Tampa Inno award recognition of her and her great company Black Unicorn Education! We're excited to have Ora joining us as a guest speaker for this week's Equinent session, too.
CEO@Black Unicorn Education?? | 2024 Tampa Bay Inno Award Honoree ?? | Tech-Education-for-Social-Impact Leader | EdTech Entrepreneur | Community Collaborator & Connector | Keynote Speaker ??
?? ?? ?? ???????? ???????? ??????????!!!!!?? ?? ?? Black Unicorn Education has been named a 2024 Tampa Bay Inno Award honoree by the Tampa Bay Business Journal! The Inno Awards showcase startups and entrepreneurs elevating Tampa Bay as a growing innovation hub and who are helping shape the tech ecosystem in the region. I am jaw-dropped to be recognized for our work to bring AI education to communities across Florida by such a prestigious organization. I am so proud of all the other honorees including my colleagues in the EdTech category Brandy Jackson of Scoutlier by Aecern and Marlee Strawn of Scholar Education. I am GRATEFUL HUMBLED & HONORED to be one of 30 honorees! I am proud to represent my family, my company, my community (East Tampa REPRESENT!!! ??????), and most importantly-- the Kingdom of God! Big shout outs go to: ? Theresa Willingham of AMRoC FabLab who helped me launch my company through her Equity in Entrepreneurship program; ? @Tiffany Watson of All Aboard Financial who is an amazing accountant and recommended me for the award; ? My Coach and Mentor, Sophia Ruffin Wilson, for all of her wisdom and insights in helping me develop for my calling in the technology field through her mentoring program, Company of Copacetic Leaders. I am in AWE at what God continues to do in my life! I will always give Him all the glory for the great things He does for me! ???? ***One more shout out: To my son Bentley Tanner who has been the most AMAZING videographer ever!!! Check out some of the behind-the-scenes he captured from the photo shoot we did in preparation for the award ceremony! #blackunicorneducation #MassiveInnovation #tampabayinno Tarneisha Peters Stephanie McNeal BBIF Corporation to Develop Communities of Tampa, Inc. (CDC of Tampa) Ernest Coney Jeffery Alex James Johnson, Ph.D., Lynn Kroesen, CEcD Shawn M. Ferguson University of South Florida Bartow Community Redevelopment Agency Black Innovation Leaders of Florida Mirajo Collective Florida Inventors Hall of Fame Jamie Spurrier Soaring City Innovation Partnership The 502 Project Tampa Bay Business & Wealth Magazine Girl Scouts of West Central Florida The Tampa Innovation Project Blacks in Technology - Tampa Bay Tampa Bay Latin Chamber of Commerce South Tampa Chamber
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If you or someone you know is an early-stage entrepreneur or interested in exploring the possibilities of small business ownership, the Foundation for Community Driven Innovation Equity in Entrepreneurship program is a great way to learn the basics, become acquainted with the local small business community, and earn some seed funding in the process. Orientation for our Fall 2024 session is Friday Nov. 8, at 6:30 pm at AMRoC FabLab . Visit Equinent.org to sign up! Thank you to the Florida Business Development Corporation and Truist for helping make this program - heading into its 5th year! - possible.
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Congratulations to our 2024 Summer Equity in Entrepreneurship grads! We're excited to see Rebecca Paone, MBA's Care Collective, Johnann A Jackson's Boujippie, Ulisses Martin's Gangs to Riches, and Jimmy Flint-Smith's Life After Death productions take flight. Look for their stories soon and sign up for our next LaunchPad session at Equinent.org
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Thank you to Pedro Ocasio of Truist for another great Financial Health and Wellness session for our Equinent program participants! Truist has been a founding program partner, providing not only funding for the last four years, but a vital personal investment of mentoring support. One of the distinguishing features of the Equity in Entrepreneurship program is our signature focus on the importance of managing money well at all levels, but most crucially at the personal level, and how careful budgeting can lead to healthy credit ratings, and ultimately healthy business finances. If you want to be part of our next cohort in the fall, to learn how to get a healthy foundational start for your business idea, visit Equinent.org to learn more and sign up for the next session.
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Tomorrow - Wednesday, August 7 at 9 am - our final summer session presenter, Johnann of #Boujippie, presents! Join us in person at the Hillsborough Entrepreneur Collaborative Center in Ybor City or watch live on 1 Million Cups Tampa at https://lnkd.in/gCpM9Atk!
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Great 1 Million Cups Tampa presentations today by Equinent summer session entrepreneurs Ulisses Martin and Jimmy Flint-Smith ! Enrollment is rolling with our next session starting in Nov. Thanks to support from Truist, participants can earn up to $1000 in seed funding for their new business and will learn everything from the fundamentals of the business model canvas to small business finance essentials and how to share their story effectively like Ulisses and Jimmy did this morning during their 1 Million Cups Tampa capstone presentations. Visit Equinent.org to learn more and register for the next cohort. Equity in Entrepreneurship is a program of the nonprofit Foundation for Community Driven Innovation.
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Our last formal session for our summer cohort looked at social enterprise as a valuable business model differentiator. We started with a couple great videos from program mentor Tony Selvaggio of eSmart Recycling, an exemplary social entrepreneur, and then got a great impromptu presentation from Theo Boomsma, also a talented social entrepreneur and founder of Iot Lab Suriname and Julie Sundar, founder of Codettes Foundation and one of this year's Chevron Fab Fellowship winners, doing part of her Fellowship at AMRoC FabLab where the Equinent program is hosted. They shared some insights and ideas around fine tuning business niches and inspired some great discussion. Next week, two more of our awesome entrepreneurs head to 1 Million Cups Tampa to share their stories. Join us in cheering them on!
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Rebecca Paone, MBA's 1 Million Cups Tampa presentation about her company Care Collective was fantastic this morning! We're looking forward to our next EE presenters next week. Some of them took the opportunity to run practice presentations with Entrepreneur Collaborative Center staff this morning, too. Congrats, Rebecca and all our great EE entrepreneurs for bringing all their hard work together with such focus and dedication!
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Our summer session entrepreneurs take to the 1 Million Cups Tampa stage over the next few weeks, starting with Care Collective this Wednesday, July 24! You'll also get to hear about the work being done at AMRoC FabLab , where the Equity in Entrepreneurship program is held. Watch live in person at the Entrepreneur Collaborative Center in Ybor City starting at 9am or tune in on 1 Million Cups Tampa on Facebook Live!
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