BIPOC Women’s Business Navigator
March 28, 2025 @ 9:30 am - May 30, 2025 @ 12:00 pm
This 9-week cohort provides technical guidance to 10-12 women of color who are either at the pre-start or very early stages of their entrepreneurial journey.
Each in-person session will be facilitated by Grace Mo-Phillips, WBC Business Advisor.
Through practical business training and peer discussions, participants help one another define and refine their business ideas, identify where the opportunities and challenges lie, and develop strategies to overcome barriers in starting or growing their business.
Participants will also learn about available resources to help take their business to the next level.
Who should participate: This program is open to women in Maine who are Black, Brown, Indigenous and from other diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds who want to start or grow their own business. This program will be conducted in English.
Location: In-person at the CEI Women’s Business Center, 2 Portland Fish Pier, Suite 201, Portland, ME 04101
Session Dates:
- Friday, March 28th: 9:30am-12:00pm
- Friday, April 4th: 9:30am-12:00pm
- Friday, April 11th: 9:30am-12:00pm
- Friday, April 18th: 9:30am-12:00pm
- (No Session April 25th)
- Friday, May 2nd: 9:30am-12:00pm
- Friday, May 9th: 9:30am-12:00pm
- Friday, May 16th 9:30am-12:00pm
- Friday, May 23rd 9:30am-12:00pm
- Graduation: Friday, May 30th 9:30am-12:00pm
Fee: No Cost