YWCA Metropolitan Chicago works to close racial wealth gap, help small business owners succeed

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YWCA Metropolitan Chicago works to close the racial wealth gap and help small business owners succeed. One graduate runs a food delivery service.

"The Economic Empowerment Institute of the YWCA is working on closing the racial wealth gap," said Robert Johnson, who oversees the institute's programs."The Breedlove Center focuses on later-stage female entrepreneurs who are the fastest growing group of entrepreneurs but the least likely to get funded," said Johnson., which delivers food and liquor to boat owners and charter companies in Chicago's harbors.

"The Breedlove program allowed us to be able to figure out how do we take this opportunity and continue to expand it," said Evans.The YWCA has more than 30 corporate partners who have donated more than $2 Million to the Institute over the past year, which is helping maintain and sustain the programs.

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