Harlem Business Alliance Launches Incubator for Black Women EntrepreneursYork
(DNAINFO) Dartunorro Clark | August 11, 2016 — The Lillian Project aims to help black women in the world of small business.
A new program is hoping to boost the number of African-American women business owners in Harlem.
The Harlem Business Alliance recently launched the Lillian Project, which aims to give native-born African American women, who fall within the low-to middle-income bracket, a shot at opening their dream business.
Gina Ramcharan, the director of the project, said the organization worked with the Michigan-based W.K. Kellogg Foundation, which provided $300,000 to create an incubator for prospective minority entrepreneurs.
She said the proposal was out of the box for the foundation, because it generally works with child welfare issues.
“Their focus is on children and the welfare of children in this country,” Ramcharan said. “But one of the ways to help children out of poverty is to help their parents out of poverty.”