Black Business Expo and Financial Empowerment Summit to be held Friday in downtown Flint

FLINT, MI- A four-hour, cost-free to the public summit and company expo event will consider position this Friday in downtown Flint.

The Black Business Expo Monetary Empowerment Summit presented by Chennelle Dismond will acquire area from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, July 22, at the Flint Farmers’ Market place, 300 E. 1st St.

This function will be showcasing a variety of regional distributors and corporations. The showcase will include things like health care & wellness organizations, nonprofit organizations, cafe homeowners & foodstuff truck operators, catering & unique foodstuff prep companies, enterprise resource distributors, clothing designers, merchant company providers, authors/publishers, IT/Digital/ Media Help Authorities, advisors/consultants, small business educators & coaches, and far more.

Dismond, who has a qualifications in the economical realm, set alongside one another the celebration. She discovered inspiration, revamped and inherited the total concept of the Black Enterprise Expo from the late Superintendent Quintin Marshall Senior.

Soon after he passed absent in 2018, Dismond mentioned she was in the state of mind wherever she required to revise the total strategy, so she stayed in speak to with his spouse and brought it back again with a aim on finance.

“I understand the dynamics powering the perceived lack of assets actually remaining a issue of deficiency of know-how of the sources that a person demands, and how to determine and access,” she claimed. “This is a useful resource wealthy community and I have been listed here as a fiscal qualified and in community for about 25 decades. So, I know what every person does not know.”

The summit aims to inform the group about the recognition of minority-owned enterprises as a result of distinctive money schooling topics these kinds of as “How Do I Get Started off,” “How to Pivot in a Pandemic,” “Show Me the Cash in My Backyard,” and “Taking My Business to The Following Degree.”

There will also be a youth entrepreneur corner where youth entrepreneurs 17 and below can showcase their solutions and companies for free of charge.

“I want to showcase that you’re in no way way too younger to get commenced and you are in no way far too outdated,” reported Dismond. “I want to be in a position to showcase reverse ends of the spectrum and see what that appears like when you comply with your dreams.”

The day’s activities will consist of speakers, presentations, and vendors.

“I’m seeking for every man or woman that walks in that doorway that they wander away with anything, even if they really do not come across that the details was most valuable to them,” said Dismond. “This is what it states. It is a economical empowerment summit, an chance for you to come into speak to with these entities in your group that will assist you to expand and acquire that business enterprise that might have now appear to fruition, or that you are just considering about.

“This is in which you find the funds in your backyard when you believe that there’s no means. This is about instruction. At the heart of this, education and learning is in which I hang my head.”

For a lot more information on this celebration, speak to [email protected].

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