BlackNorth BEGIN

Empowering Black entrepreneurs to launch and grow successful businesses! Due to systemic barriers, Canadian Black entrepreneurs struggle to access the funding and support they need to succeed, and resultingly, Black-owned businesses are only half as likely to reach the maturity stage compared to white-owned businesses. Given these unacceptable facts, we decided to build the Black Entrepreneurship Growth and Innovation Network (BEGIN). BEGIN is an entirely free ‘one-stop-shop’ directory of resources and tools Black entrepreneurs can use to build their businesses. The platform that exists today is only ‘Wave 1’ of our long-term vision and will be followed by future releases that will continue to expand on the best-in class offerings we already provide.