DC business using grant to empower Black women entrepreneurs [Video]

WASHINGTON — D.C. gave out more than $600,000 in retail grants to small businesses last week, helping one business uplift Black women entrepreneurs in the process.

The Blackbone Project is one of at least 64 businesses that received a $10 thousand grant from the District during Small Business Week.

“What we do is we take Black women-owned businesses and build them from the ideation phase, all the way up until their business is on track to hit a million dollars. And so they don’t leave with us with a million dollars, but they’re on track to do a million dollars in revenue based on the education we give them, the certifications they’ve received… and [we] just give them all the tools they need to succeed, how to be grant ready, how to provide access …