January 24, 2023
BJC Makes Anchor Investment in WEPOWER Capital
BJC Makes Anchor Investment in WEPOWER Capital
BJC’s anchor investment will go toward focused, revenue-based funding (RBF) investments in Black- and Latinx-owned businesses with strong growth trajectories. WEPOWER Capital works to ignite equitab...
November 29, 2022
What it Takes to Thrive: The Importance of Investing in Everyone
What it Takes to Thrive: The Importance of Investing in Everyone
Challenge your doubts as well as your own perception of what’s possible, and allow yourself grace to grow. Everyone has a role to play in building community wealth, and we are here to support and co...
November 16, 2022
Meet WEPOWER’s Fall Cohort of Biz Owners!
Meet WEPOWER’s Fall Cohort of Biz Owners!
We are SO HAPPY to share that we have welcomed our fourth cohort of amazing Black and Latinx to the WEPOWER family! Take time to get to know each company and checkout their products, services, and ven...
October 26, 2022
St. Louis County Council Votes to Allocate $5.6 Million in ARPA Funds to Improve Local Early Childhood Education
St. Louis County Council Votes to Allocate $5.6 Million in ARPA Funds to Improve Local Early Childhood Education
September 26, 2022
WEPOWER Announces First Investment in St. Louis Startup, Bold Xchange
WEPOWER Announces First Investment in St. Louis Startup, Bold Xchange
Bold Xchange, curator of corporate gifts from Black-owned brands, receives the first investment from WEPOWER’s new fund, whose goal is to accelerate community owned wealth and create economic growth...
August 25, 2022
For Us, By Us, with Love
For Us, By Us, with Love
We can't wait for anybody else to liberate us. We are the ones with that power when we get organized. We are the ones that are in charge of creating a different future, and we can lead this charge for...
August 4, 2022
We Have More Power Than We Recognize
We Have More Power Than We Recognize
I don’t have to be an ‘expert’ to speak up and have something valuable to say; my lived experiences and desires for the world I want to live in justify my speaking up.
July 14, 2022
You Have a Future in This: How vision can help build a village
You Have a Future in This: How vision can help build a village
There’s a particular type of inheritance from being a person of color in North St. Louis and other places like this. But we’ve got to learn to bury that inheritance and create a new one together: ...