Entrepreneurs

Launch Dayton is launching the Business Toolkit, a link that’ll offer free, online entrepreneur and business training courses.

Dayton non-profit, WestSide Makerspace has received over a million dollars from the City. The plan is to use this money to get a new space by 2025.

The Ohio Third Frontier has awarded a non-profit, Aviatra Accelerators in Dayton, over $200,000 to expand its services.

The Hub in the former Dayton arcade is marking its two year anniversary. The space hosts over 70 private offices and 100 companies for office co-working.

Wilberforce University is teaming up with a federal agency to create a new generation of minority entrepreneurs.

The clock is ticking for the Ohio Legislature to pass an initiated statute to keep the issue from going to the ballot this fall.

The initiative will work to remove barriers for Black and brown entrepreneurs.

Put on by the Dayton Young Black Professionals, Black Excellence Weekend continues through Sunday with networking events, a vintage flea market and an opportunity fair.

Dayton is one of only 20 YWCA locations to offer the Women Empowerment 360 program.

More than 22,000 people are released from prison every year in Ohio, and as re-entering citizens, they face a lot of challenges. This week on WYSO we begin a new series of ReEntry Stories and hear about the lives of four formerly incarcerated women. They all took advantage of an educational program or some kind of skill building project while they were in prison, and for all of them, it was a good first step.

Returned citizen Afton McClain is an entrepreneur and owner of Afton’s Beauty Pod in Dayton. She’s been out of prison for 3 years and recently voted for the first time in her life for a candidate in the 2020 presidential election.

The number of African American-owned businesses has fallen sharply in Yellow Springs from its peak four decades ago. Only a handful remain in the…