Your Summer Reset!

Back-to-school season is just around the corner, and while that may not apply to you anymore directly, as we race through summer, it is the perfect time to reflect, renew, and reset, to set ourselves up to end the year strong. 

Did you take a vacation (or staycation)? Are you planning one before the season ends? Did you take a course or get a certification? Did you make a career shift, get a promotion, or transition out of a job? Did you finally get that side hustle started? Did you meet with a therapist? Or join a new group or community?  Or, are you feeling like you have barely had time to blink and somehow it's already August?! Wherever you are on your journey, make sure you are taking care of YOU so you can take care of business!

What's Inside:

In this edition of our newsletter, we’re covering FWD Original Insights, What We're Reading, Opportunities, & Features, including: 

• Tips and tricks to help entrepreneurs curb anxiety and manage the uncertainty of the future
• Ways to celebrate Black businesses and Black consumers. (Hint: it doesn’t involve problematic kinte cloth design themes or Juneteenth ice cream!)
• How friendships can help us achieve work-life balance
• How to create more content with less
• $650K in Grants for Black Artists, Designers, & Small Businesses
• A scholarship program accelerating equity for mom's
• & more...

Around here we’re all about carving out time to celebrate our wins and then setting a few new goals/targets for the next month.

WIN: We’re thankful to have been able to reconnect live at the first FWD Summit in two years in March - check out the recap here! 

+We’re currently working on new issue of FWD Magazine– all created with you in mind.

GOAL: Call for content contributors! Interested? Send us an email here. Please include your area of expertise, what type of content you're interested in and we'll hit you up with next steps!

As we seek to provide content and opportunities to help you move FWD, we hope you’ll help us grow our community and spread the word about what we’re doing to create a beautifully diverse, inclusive and vibrant culture for aspiring entrepreneurs and businesses.

Thank you for being a part of the #FWDFamily!

With Gratitude,

Looking for original content to inspire, motivate, and offer you unique perspectives on current events – all rooted in our commitment to diversity, inclusion, and innovation? 

We’ve got you covered.

Here's what we're reading! Check out our curated list of articles and ideas to help your business move FWD:

✅ $650,000 in Grants Available to Black Artists, Designers, and Small Businesses

Instagram is teaming up with the Brooklyn Museum to debut the 2022 #BlackVisionaries Program to provide $650,000 in grants to Black artists, designers, and small businesses.

✅ RISE by the Mom Project:

RISE is a scholarship program committed to accelerating equity for moms and women of color by providing access to upskill tech certifications, while harnessing the power of community, support, and job placement—in six months or less, and at no cost to participants!

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