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Marijuana was decriminalized in New York on April 2, 2021. However recreational retail sales of the plant may not be available until 2022 or 2023. On Thursday, Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes joined Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren in a community forum to give residents key information about how to prepare to profit in the New York’s […]
According to a new Harvard Business School Online survey. Most people enjoy working remotely and want the option to keep doing so after the pandemic. Most of the 1,500 people surveyed say they excelled and even grew in their professions. But the survey also showed that while most employees miss their colleagues and other aspects of […]
The Online Resources Delivering Excellent Results (ORDER) Grant will provide businesses with up to $5,000 to upgrade their capacity for online sales and delivery management, Businesses can apply as long as they were operating before Jan. 1, 2020, and are in good standing with all municipal requirements, including zoning codes, taxes and fees, insurance and fair […]
Officials representing Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch have just announced that it has been purchased by billionaire businessman, Ron Burkle. According to Burkle’s representative, the 2,700 acre estate in Los Olivos, near Santa Barbara was purchased with the intent of using it for land banking. Initial reports from the Wall Street Journal suggest that the selling […]
Mayor Lovely A. Warren has launched an Entrepreneur Resource Partner Enhancement Program. This program makes $1.5 million in grants available to six entrepreneur support organizations and six organizational coaches. The goal is to provide small businesses with case management support over a 24-month period. The organizations and coaches will help business identify funding and training […]
If you are looking to learn a new professional skill or get certification New York State has a new program. The program is a new initiative through a partnership with New York State and Coursera throught the Department of Labor. Governor Andrew Cuomo said the partnership will help the state save money. Gov. Cuomo said […]
Pharrell Williams will be debuting a brand new skincare line that he’s been developing over many years with his trusted dermatologist, Elena Jones. The line will hit the shelves on November 25, 2020. Williams gave a statement, saying: “Sometimes you need to cleanse your spirit. Sometimes you just need to cleanse your mind. Sometimes you’ve […]
A study done by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York shows black-owned businesses are most impacted by the pandemic. As a matter of fact, the brief said 41 percent of black businesses suffered an acute decline. The decline was more significant than any other group. Latinx business owners dropped 32 percent, Asian business owners […]
When it comes to entrepreneurship we can be very creative and fill a need when there is one. The coronavirus created a need for personal protection equipment, for the average person finding a mask early on was very difficult. But these creative black minds made a successful black business buy making and selling reusable cloth […]
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