In a tweet sent over the weekend, Chicago, Illinois rapper Lupe Fiasco shared the link to the Neighborhood Start Fund, a non-profit he co-founded with Di-Ann Eisnor to help “turn ideas into start-ups.”
A website for the non-profit offers a detailed description of the organization.
According to the Neighborhood Start Fund website, they’ve “created a neighborhood-specific fund to support entrepreneurs and start-ups from underserved areas and of course so the best new ideas won’t go wasted. We provide access, network, workshops, mentoring and of course funding.”
The first neighborhood fund will be granted to entrepreneurs and start-ups in Brownsville, Brooklyn.
Those interested in receiving funds must first pitch their idea(s) during a live pitch event that will take place next month on November 13.
“Our first neighborhood is Brownsville Brooklyn. We’ve just opened the idea competition and the first live pitch event will be November 13, 2015. We will be housed at the Dream Big Foundation’s new entrepreneurship center and cafe opening in January 2015,” a description on the Neighborhood Start Fund reads.
Salute to Lupe!
Rappers doing instead of talking. Big ups to Lupe for bringing some positivity to the hood instead of selling negativity to his brothers and sisters for financial gain.
Curt, you have the comment of the year. And here we have The Game going to jail bc he had to “prove” he was The Game. Sucker-Punching a guy from the back, and he wants to glorify it.
Shout out to Lupe. We all need to cultivate an entrepreneurial spirit. Today you need more than a job you need to have a few hustles an or organizations as well.
hats off to lupe for his continuing efforts to boost positivity in the world.