WORK
Community Partner: Barred Business
The Work Team partnered with Barred Business (BB), whose mission is to empower and support the work of formerly incarcerated Black, Transgender, Queer, Native, and Disabled business owners by providing direct aid in the form of business grants. Together we created a Story Map tool with the goal of telling a story of resistance by Barred Business in response to the discrimination and intentional exclusion by the Small Business Agency against formerly incarcerated business owners under the Paycheck Protection Program. In addition, we began the process of attaining 501(c)3 status, creating a social media awareness campaign through coalition building and fundraising more money through grants for Barred Business.