RESOURCES COMMITTED TO SUPPORTING THE BLACK COMMUNITY

• Amazon to donate $10 million to organizations that are working to bring about social justice and improve the lives of Black and African Americans

• Apple launches $100 million Racial Equity and Justice Initiative

• Glossier Is Donating $1 Million to Black Lives Matter and Black-Owned Beauty Brands

• YouTube will launch a multi-year $100 million fund dedicated to amplifying and developing the voices of Black creators and artists and their stories.

• Microsoft pledged to donate $250,000 each to the Black Lives Matter Foundation, Equal Justice Initiative, Innocence Project, The Leadership Conference, Minnesota Freedom Fund, and NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund.

• Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey commits to  #startsmall grants to benefit Black and Brown communities, support ex-offenders, and more

• BLACK CAPITAL + FUNDING RESOURCES

• VC firms that invested in black founders: Notes: data powered by Crunchbase; initial list only includes VC-backed companies, not all accelerator-backed companies

• BLCK VC: Co-founded by Sydney Sykes, BLCK VC connects, engages, and empowers Black venture investors by providing a community built for and by other Black venture investors. 

• Backstage Capital invests in underrepresented founders through funding and accelerator programs. 

• Black Angel Tech Fund: Committed to investing in promising young Black talent and bridging the gap between Black entrepreneurs and investors. 

• Black Women Raise: a platform and community designed to accelerate the ability of leading black female founders to raise growth capital, scale-up and create pathways for the women behind them. 

• Digitalundivided: Dedicated to making entrepreneurship and innovation more inclusive by investing in Black and Latinx women-led startups.

• Fearless Fund: Invests in WOC-led startups that are seeking pre-seed, seed level, and Series A financing. 

• New Voices Fund: Created to empower women of color by helping startup founders from the ground up with dedicated training and support leading their companies to success.

• Kapor Capital: Deeply committed to investing in diverse entrepreneurs with early-stage startups whose business success generates positive change in the world.

• Vertical404 is an Atlanta-based Accelerator and Pre-Seed Venture Fund – providing the education, mentorship, network, and capital required for Black & Latinx entrepreneurs to lead successful startups.

• Opportunity Hub (OHUB) is an early stage investment and wealth creating platform to ensure that everyone, everywhere has early exposure to the tech, startup and venture ecosystem; access to in-demand technology education, training and talent placement; an onramp to startup entrepreneurship programming, resources and capital and vetted investment literacy and opportunities for multi-generational wealth creation with no reliance on pre-existing multi-generational wealth.

• ARTICLES

• Reflections. A Black Girl in Venture

• Shop black owned beauty brands - The Helm

• 12 Black Women-Run Businesses That Have Inspired Us - The Story Exchange

• How to find and support Black-owned businesses — and why it's important - Mashable

• 75 Black Owned Businesses to Support - Forbes