Believe-In-You Money: What Would It Look Like If the Economy Loved Black People?

Offering a revolution in Black business financing, this book centers the entrepreneur and responds to the systemic failures surrounding Black wealth building.

There is a huge racial wealth gap in America today. Owning a business is one of the best ways to build wealth--but entrepreneurs need capital. And investing in Black companies is obstructed by systemic racism and implicit biases that continue to create barriers to success.

Merging historical information and data, along with tactical examples and explanations, this practical guide shows us what needs to be done in order to change the way we support Black companies and how we think about wealth.

Norwood calls for investors to move away from extractive, individualistic, exploitative approaches to capital and entrepreneurship. She asks us to move toward transformational, restorative, regenerative, and interdependent relationships to repair the impacts of systemic racism. Investors, large and small, need to say to Black business owners, "we believe in you."

With an entrepreneur-centric approach, Believe-In-You Money challenges the system failure surrounding Black companies. It's a guide on how Black entrepreneurs can be supported in sustainable ways and offers a shift in the way we think about who can be an investor, while aiming to change our personal relationships with money.

Author: Jessica Norwood
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Published: 10/10/2023
Pages: 168
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.98w x 0.47d
ISBN13: 9781523004638
ISBN10: 1523004630
BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Entrepreneurship
- Business & Economics | Investments & Securities | Commodities | General
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies

About the Author
Jessica Norwood is the Founder of the Runway Project, a financial activist, and social entrepreneur who was awarded the Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellowship for Economic Disruption. An immediate past fellow of RSF Social Finance Integrated Capital, Jessica speaks worldwide on the intersection of culture and investing, emerging leadership, community investing and African American wealth creation. Featured in Essence Magazine, NPR, Next City, and Fast Company, Jessica is a lifelong Fellow of the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University and Southern University College of Business, as well as the Political Power Fellow of the Hip Hop Archive at the Hutchinson Institute of Harvard University.