Applications now open for $100,000 grant for Kansas City’s Black-owned businesses

Applications now open for $100,000 grant for Kansas City’s Black-owned businesses

A nonprofit is doing its part to stimulate economic growth and help transform the Kansas City community by investing in and empowering Black-owned businesses.

KC GIFT’s $100K grant — its largest-ever — aims to help boost Black-owned job creator

A newly opened $100,000 grant represents a significant step in Kansas City GIFT’s mission to close the racial wealth gap — investing in Black-owned businesses that have the potential to become significant employers and economic drivers in their communities, said Brandon Calloway. “We exist to right the wrongs of the past and create the economic equity that our city needs in order to be the truly great city that it has the potential to be,” said …