From left, JWC Foundation founders Melody Short, Rasheeda Creighton and Kelli Lemon. The foundation, which offers resources to black entrepreneurs to start and grow their businesses, plans to launch a new accelerator program in September. (Photo courtesy of JWC Foundation)
Shortly after bringing their incubator program under the umbrella of a new nonprofit, the founders of Jackson Ward Collective are rolling out another new black-owned small business support program.
The collective’s Community Business Academy accelerator program is slated to launch with its first class in September. The program is intended to teach black business owners or aspiring black business owners the basics of running their own show with training on topics like marketing, financing and bookkeeping.
“It’s a 12-week program that fills the gap of programming for helping folks understand what it really takes to run a business. That’s something that the…
