Black women are driving America’s entrepreneurship boom—starting six times more businesses than average and creating 1.4 million jobs. But even though Black women are starting businesses at a rapid rate, their businesses earn less revenue, remain smaller, and have a higher failure rate.
Author: Antionette Ball
Antionette Ball is co-founder and CEO of The Women’s Entrepreneurial Opportunity Project, Inc. (WEOP), a nonprofit organization founded in 1999 and located in the heart of the community providing a calendar of activities that brings women together. She is also the author of a Women Owned Business Guide to Winning Contracts and served as editor for From A Woman’s Perspective magazine. She has an extensive background in nonprofit management and academia working with a program funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) at Morehouse College.