INSTITUTE OF BLACK WEALTH

Institute of Black Wealth is committed to creating the opportunities that will educate, support, fund, invest, train and prepare our community to not be left behind and to get involved in the new forms of commerce... Mayors Maynard Jackson of Atlanta, Coleman Young of Detroit, and Marion Barry of D.C. intentionally created policies that would provide Black-owned businesses with access to government contracting. Our approach is to engineer similar structures and accomplish the same through the Institute of Black Wealth and with the support of corporate partners, banking institutions, and funders who understand the role they play in supporting efforts that deliberately address structural inequities... Although Black, minority and woman-owned startups do not get the same access to funding and venture capital relationships, platforms like the Institute of Black Wealth aim to make greater access available through institutional and corporate partners.