Majira Project

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🫶 Join us in our effort to help close the racial wealth gap in America and in pursuing our vision of economic justice for Black, Latinx, and Indigenous communities. Your contribution will help us reach our fundraising goal of $100k by the end of the year to continue empowering our inspirational entrepreneurs, both in new cohorts and from our 158 alumni companies.

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Become a part of the Majira Project’s 9th cohort! The link to the application is in our bio. The Majira Project is a free non-profit accelerator supporting communities of color as they build their ventures. More information about our mission and past cohort companies can be found on our website. If you have any questions, please send them to [email protected]. 

The priority deadline for the 9th Cohort is September 15, 2024. After this deadline, the application will be rolling for future cohorts. We look forward to learning more about your companies!

Today we celebrate Juneteenth - the day in 1865 when the last enslaved African Americans were finally told they were free. Now it is a national holiday that represents freedom, resilience, and unity.

Today we also celebrate our fourth anniversary of Majira’s incorporation as an official nonprofit organization. This is in recognition that despite all of the progress that has been made, there is still work to be done in the ongoing fight for equality.

We will continue to work to close the racial wealth gap by cultivating founders, companies, and communities of color through our mission of community development through entrepreneurship. Keep an eye out as we prepare to open the application for our 9th cohort of our flagship accelerator program in partnership with BCG Spark!

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If you’d like to support our mission and our vision of economic justice for marginalized communities, please share our website where more information is available on our program. Please also consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our work! https://donorbox.org/majira-project-2024-donations

Happy Juneteenth! ❤️💚🖤

Last week we held our 2024 Spring Mixer event in Boston! Cohort alumni, Majira coaches, consultants, prospective companies, and other Majira colleagues gathered together to mingle and celebrate the Majira community at BCG’s Seaport office.

Thank you to our event sponsor, The Foundation, for helping make this event possible. Thank you as well to BCG for letting us host our mixer in their lovely office space. Thank you to for their bartending services. A big thank you to our cohort alumni who helped provide delicious refreshments: , , , and !

Last, but not least, thank you to all our attendees and everyone in the Majira community for supporting our mission of community development through entrepreneurship. We hope to see everyone soon at a future event!

The Majira Project's vision is economic justice for Black, Latinx, and Indigenous communities across America. We pursue this through spurring growth for small businesses from or serving these communities. For every dollar given, we're able to provide $17 in services to entrepreneurs that create wealth and jobs in underserved communities. We're looking to raise $100K by the end of the year to support our newest cohort of 41 and 87 alumni small businesses across the country. Will you join us this in helping to close the racial wealth gap in America by giving today? https://donorbox.org/majira-project-2022

🎉 Announcement!! 🎉

We're excited to share that we launched the 7th Cohort of our BCGSpark Accelerator Program about a month ago! These 41 amazing companies led by Black, Latinx, & Indigenous entrepreneurs have been diving in with their pro bono BCGSpark team, a business coach, and a network of connections focused on tackling the specific business challenges to get them to the next level. See the full list below and head to our website (www.majiraproject.org/companies) to learn more about each of them!

Interested in our accelerator program but want to learn more? Join one of our upcoming information sessions to get to know us better and have an opportunity for live Q&A. Sessions will be recorded and sent out to those unable to attend live.
Register at linktr.ee/majiraproject

📢 ANNOUNCEMENT 📢
Our application for the 2022-2023 cohort of the Majira Project is now open!!
Accepted and founded by or serving , , and communities will receive a curated pro bono consulting project from our partners at BCG, business coaching, connections, and benefits valued at up to $50K.
Deadline to apply is Sunday, July 31 11:59pm ET. Spread the word!
Visit our website to learn more, apply & register for an info session: majiraproject.org/program

In person events 🙌
Had a great time reconnecting with our Boston alumni entrepreneurs, partners, coaches & board members on Monday to commemorate Juneteenth and our 2-year anniversary of incorporation!

P.S. we’ve got an exciting announcement tomorrow 😉👀

Today we’re celebrating all the out there hustling daily and proving that the future is female, and that future is now. We’re proud that 61% of our companies are led by women and we’re highlighting 6 of our founders who are uplifting other women as part of their journey (clockwise from top left):

Kenya McKnight-Ahad (‘21) is the founder & CEO of Black Women's Wealth Alliance (BWWA), BWWA lends itself as a necessary asset and eco leader created by and for Historical Black Women. BWWA provides cultural wealth education, business support, and financial assistance strengthening Black Women's capacity to build generational wealth.

After having to make her own products for her skin, Dr. Anne Beal (‘21) discovered that the challenge wasn’t just personal: 70% of women of color say that current products don’t work for them and that 75% of products marketed toward women of color contain ingredients classified as toxins. She founded Absolute JOI - Skincare for Women of Color to provide women of color clean, effective beauty alternatives.

Barbara Jones (‘21) is the founder & CEO of Lillii RNB, an Enterprise Solutions Company specialized in retail tech and are the creators of the Freeing.Returns Total Retail Loss and Returns Management Platform. As a black veteran tech founder, Barbara’s vision is to bring more women into tech. Lillii is an acronym for “Let’s Imagine Life with Ladies in IT”. In addition to Enterprise Solutions, they provide online training for women who want to enter the retail tech space.

As a maternal mental health advocate, Lauren Elliott (‘20) and her company, Candlelit, are working to create a world where every new mom has access to culturally-relevant, evidence-based behavioral health screening, education, and support.

Gwen Jimmere (‘20) is the first African American woman to hold a patent for a natural hair care product. Her company Naturalicious, is dedicated to eliminating the frustration, time, and expense of managing natural hair while reminding customers that they are the standard of beauty. Their products have collectively saved over 70K women more than 1.2M minutes on washday.

Dr. Kimberly McGlonn (‘21) is the founder & CEO of Grant Blvd Clothing, a sustainably sourced, socially conscious style, women-led brand committed to supporting currently incarcerated & formerly incarcerated women through seamstress training programs.

You've heard of , but we'd like to introduce you to ! Starting this week, we will be reintroducing ourselves to you via our posts. We hope that you follow along and gain a little more insight into our organizations and our goals. Today we will be reviewing our vision and mission!
Take a look!