August is National Black Business Month, and we would like to recognize all of our Black-owned businesses and our partners and say thank you for your hard work and for making a difference in your local communities.
In celebration, Wish Local is offering financial support for Black-owned small businesses. Interested business owners can apply for our Empowerment program.
Wish believes in building strong ties within our communities. That’s why we started our Wish Local program. We want to help small businesses thrive and make it easier for our customers to shop by picking up their orders on the same day.
Black-owned small businesses have long faced hardship due to systemic racism. In an effort to help do our part to respond to the inequity, we’ve launched the Wish Local Empowerment Program, a dedicated investment fund of $2 million dollars to support underrepresented entrepreneurs.
We also teamed up with Black-owned businesses like Official Black Wall Street and Long Island African American Chamber of Commerce to help locate Black-owned businesses to support. Together we’re connecting with more small businesses to help promote equality and diversity within American entrepreneurship.