Directed by Ky Dickens and produced by Catherine Gray, the new featured documentary film, Show Her the Money, swept up awards and accolades during its festival run. The film will now embark on a tour of 50 cities across the country and globe,
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Directed by Ky Dickens and produced by Catherine Gray, the new featured documentary film, Show Her the Money, swept up awards and accolades during its festival run. The film will now embark on a tour of 50 cities across the country and globe,
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Initiatives that provide free and remote access to entrepreneurial education and mentorship for women worldwide, such as wegg®, can be invaluable resources where there are none. There is a major disparity between the opportunities afforded to women in business in the United States and women in developing nations.
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“As women, we often set invisible barriers to achieving our personal goals – we may hesitate to not inconvenience others, we fear asking for help, or we feel like we have to prove ourselves…Instead share your dreams and talk about your challenges in a genuine way.”
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Welcome to Women’s History Month 2024! The theme for this year’s International Women’s Day Celebration on March 8th is “Invest in women: Accelerate progress,” which is second nature to all of us at wegg®. We have always been, and will always be,
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We would like to wish our wegg® family, and the entrepreneurship world at large, a profound and illuminating Black History Month 2024! It is invaluable to acknowledge, learn, and reflect on the vast history and expansive future of African Americans in our country. This is crucial in order to be committed and attentive to increasing the equity of opportunities and wealth available to African Americans all year,
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“Women of color are the fastest growing segment of entrepreneurs, so this is an excellent time for us. I think getting the mentorships and training you need to go where you want to go is important.”
-Angela Benton, founder of NewME, the first startup accelerator for minorities globally
Happy National Black-Owned Business Month,
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In this report, The Centre for New Economics Studies (CNES) observes the entrepreneurship landscape of these identified countries – India, Germany, Mexico, Russia and Saudi Arabia – to understand how the business landscape shapes the involvement of ‘women as leaders’ and in driving business levers across sectors.
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A timely article from The Financial Times outlines an analysis of the ever-widening gap that remains between the number of investors that roll the dice on male-founded companies versus female-founded companies. The exposé by Kate Bassett, entitled, “Female founders seek remedies to lack of backers,”
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“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
-Alice Walker
March marks the beginning of Women’s History Month, and this Wednesday, March 8th, 2023 is International Women’s Day. Both of these annual periods of recognition commemorate the significant influence and impact that women have had on our global society and honor the strides that women and girls will take as the future unfolds.
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“Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.”
-Wilma Rudolph, U.S. track and field athlete
Happy Black History Month 2023 from all of us here at wegg®!
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