Your Gift – An Entrepreneur’s Dream!

Your donation to the MBE Empowerment Fund™ supports the dreams and aspirations of aspiring entrepreneurs and minority business enterprises. We use your dollars to support investments of capital and technical assistance in small disadvantaged businesses and scholarships for students enrolled in entrepreneurship degree programs in Virginia.

Your Support – Obstacles Overcome

Imagine the many challenges students and minority business owners face. Put yourself in their shoes, just for a moment. Can you imagine the range of industry changing ideas lost or abandoned because of the inability to secure funding? Can you imagine the difficulties trying to start a business, while facing seemingly insurmountable financial, economic, socio and physical impediments? This is the dilemma faced everyday by thousands of disadvantaged students and business owners. The MBE Empowerment Fund™ helps channel community dollars to support the most promising of these entrepreneurs.

Your Donation – Capital at Work

Specifically, your support will help us:

• Invest in high-impact, industry-changing ventures
• Close the funding gap experienced by minority business enterprises
• Help students complete their degree requirements in Entrepreneural Studies
• Empower the small disadvantaged businesses to succeed

Your contribution not only provides funding for investments today, but it can be recycled to support investments in the years to come. As earnings are realized, and your dollars are paid back, this money can be invested over and over to provide affordable capital to small disadvantaged businesses throughout our region – creating a legacy with every gift.

You Community – Your Dollars

The MBE Empowerment Fund is an example of Community-in-Action. A donation of any amount from multiple elements of our community helps put more money to work building small business enterprises that are the backbone of our economy - providing jobs, changing communities, and enriching our lives. So, whether it’s your own legacy, or that of your organization, government agency, or company, make the gift that makes a lasting impact.