HELP FOR WOMEN OF COLOR, SMALL-BUSINESS OWNERS AND ENTREPRENEURS

The Links Eastern Area Director Shuana Tucker-Sims (center right) with KeyBank Key4Women National Director Rachael Sampson (far right), Key4Women Senior Initiatives Development Director Colleen Dugarte (far left) and KeyBank Corporate Responsibility Officer LaKisha Jordan
Photo courtesy KeyBank.

KeyBank and the Eastern Area of The Links Incorporated, one of the nation”™s oldest and largest volunteer service organizations of professional women of African descent have formed a partnership to provide a customized Key4WomenÂ® Business Education Series and micro-grants to women of color small-business owners and entrepreneurs. Through the partnership, KeyBank”™s Key4Women-certified financial advisors will present a three-session virtual workshop series with access to additional Key4Women national programming targeted to the financial needs of businesswomen. The Eastern Area of the Links will leverage its reach to help connect female entrepreneurs and small-business owners of color throughout its service area, which extends from Boston, Massachusetts to Roanoke, Virginia, and encompasses 80 chapters with more than 4,600 members. In addition, KeyBank Foundation will provide a grant of $25,000 for micro-grants to participants who successfully complete the Key4Women program and demonstrate a business need for technical and operational assistance, and the Links will recognize their chapters that generate the most participation.

“”¦This exciting partnership with KeyBank supports our Eastern Area EmpowHER initiative, which is designed to empower women of color to reach their full potential, including economically through the support of entrepreneurs and enterprises owned by women of color,” said Links Eastern Area Director Dr. Shuana Tucker-Sims.

The Links Incorporated, founded in 1946 in Philadelphia, consists of more than 16,000 professional women of color in 288 chapters located in 41 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of the Bahamas and the United Kingdom. It is one of the nation”™s oldest and largest volunteer service organizations of extraordinary women who are committed to enriching, sustainin, and ensuring the culture and economic survival of African Americans and other persons of African ancestry

For information and to participate, register at https://bit.ly/3eNGzYb.