Majira Project

🌟 Help make an impact this #GivingTuesday by supporting the Majira Project! 🫶 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. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/etFgmpEJ 📢 Share this post and spread the word. Every gesture of support counts! #MajiraProject #GrowingSeason #EmpowerInnovation #CommunityImpact #StrategicGrowth #EntrepreneursJourney

We hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! As Black Friday rolls on, please consider the distinctive offerings from our Majira businesses! We are sure you'll discover something uniquely special for every person in your life with the diversity and quality of our curated companies. We have 41 cohort companies listed in the following categories: Apparel & Fashion, Retail & Other, Cosmetics & Beauty, and Food & Beverage. Hopefully one or more of their products make it onto your holiday shopping lists this season! #MajiraProject #GrowingSeason #BlackFriday #HolidayShopping

There are only a few days left until we reach the priority application deadline for our 9th cohort! The deadline is September 25th 12AM PST/3AM EST. After this deadline, the application will be rolling for future cohorts. You can find out more about what the Majira Project offers, such as consulting, coaching, connections, and resource toolbox, as well as the application link, on our website (found in our bio). We look forward to learning more about your companies! #9thCohort #MajiraProject #GrowingSeason

Our 2024 Majira Project Summer Mixer on the Vineyard held last week was a huge success! Thank you to all the cohort alumni, coaches, and Majira community who attended. A special thank you again to Valerie Mosley, CFA for hosting us at Villa Rosa! Thank you as well to Delta Dirt Distillery for providing us with drinks and Chef Lori E. for catering. We heard about challenges, opportunities, and successes from cohort alumni from AbsoluteJOI, Boston While Black, and The Nile List, and had a great discussion about access to human, social, intellectual, and financial capital. It was great to see everyone come together to celebrate the progress made by and support the upcoming opportunities for founders and communities of color! --------------------------------------------------------- If you would like to support our mission of community development through entrepreneurship and our vision of economic justice for marginalized communities, see below for ways to help! Donate: Consider making a tax-deductible donation here - https://lnkd.in/etFgmpEJ Apply: Apply to our upcoming cohort or share our application with potential prospects - https://lnkd.in/esUxCCGZ Mentor: Support current and former Majira companies by sharing your experience and expertise - https://lnkd.in/epBhCZ9B #VillaRosa #9thCohort #MajiraProject #GrowingSeason

This coming Wednesday, we will be hosting our 2024 Majira Project Summer Mixer on the Vineyard! A huge thank you again to Valerie Mosley, CFA for hosting us and our event at the historic Villa Rosa on Martha's Vineyard. If you are around next week on the Vineyard and want to mingle with likeminded people supporting Majira's mission, feel free to RSVP at this link: https://lu.ma/9v5ow4ed to join us. We look forward to seeing you all!

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 info@majiraproject.org.  The priority deadline for the 9th Cohort is September 25, 2024. After this deadline, the application will be rolling for future cohorts. We look forward to learning more about your companies! #MajiraProject #GrowingSeason

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! —————————————————————————————— 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://lnkd.in/etFgmpEJ Happy Juneteenth! ❤️💚🖤 #Juneteenth #Equality #FreedomDay #MajiraProject #GrowingSeason

Last week we held our 2024 Majira Project Spring Mixer event in Boston! Cohort alumni, Majira coaches, Boston Consulting Group (BCG) 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 Eastern Bank 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 Sol y Sal Boston for their bartending services. A big thank you to our cohort alumni who helped provide delicious refreshments: EVERYBODY GOTTA EAT, Cupcake Therapy, Democracy Brewing, and Love Cork Screw! 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!

In our final speaker session for our 8th cohort, which took place at the end of February as we closed out Black History Month and began Women's History Month, we brought in two Black women trailblazers to discuss leadership, Donna Levin, Co-Founder of Care.com and current CEO of the Arthur M. Blank School for Entrepreneurial Leadership at Babson College, and Erica Hamilton, Founding Director of the Black Leadership Institute and CEO and Co-Founder of The Memo I Never Got (MING). They spoke on a panel moderated by Kerry Bowie. They talked about their career journeys, the leaders that impacted them along the way, and how they used those lessons to become even better leaders themselves. Donna shared how in her current role, she strives to embody an empathetic, compassionate, and values-based leader. These are the same traits her team at Babson’s Entrepreneurial School are researching to instill in their young leaders. Erica discussed how as a leader, she tries to create opportunities and seats at the table for those who may not have access. They closed out speaking about the different roles that leaders play as mentors, sponsors, and champions in order to create more great leaders. And Erica closed with a Napoleon Bonaparte quote often cited by former American Express CEO, Kenneth Chenault, reminding us that “The leader's role is to define reality, then give hope.” Thank you once again to our wonderful speakers; we appreciate Donna and Erica coming in to close out our sessions for this year’s cohort! Be on the lookout for future events from Majira showcasing more stories and insights from remarkable entrepreneurs and leaders! #WomensHistoryMonth #MajiraProject #GrowingSeason

🌟 Celebrating the end of Black History Month and beginning of Women's History Month by reflecting on our commitment to support underrepresented entrepreneurs year-round. More than 90% of our founders are people of color (majority Black) and more than 68% are women. At the Majira Project, we focus on two crucial pillars: Connections and Capital. 📎 Connections: We facilitate meaningful connections for our entrepreneurs, from executive staff recruitments to tech assistance for climate tech prototypes. Over 40% of our companies return to mentor new ones, showcasing the value of our network. 💰 Capital: While not directly involved in all fundraising efforts, our program boosts average revenue by over $500,000 for companies a year after joining. Collectively, our cohort companies have raised over $600 million and created over 1700 job opportunities. 📈 Yet, there's still work to be done. Structural shifts are needed to truly support Black entrepreneurs, women entrepreneurs, and other underrepresented groups. We need to recognize their value, innovation, and contributions year-round. They deserve genuine support and investment throughout the year, and we will continue to do our part to make that happen. If you would like to support our work, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our work: https://lnkd.in/g5bUa-U9 #MajiraProject #BlackHistoryMonth #WomensHistoryMonth #GrowingSeason