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New crowdfunding campaign aims to help Black-owned businesses, nonprofits
The goal of the Black Bottom Campaign is to raise $10,000
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DETROIT – A new crowdfunding campaign is looking to take a different approach to lifting up the Black community.
“We’re trying to support the whole infrastructure of Black-owned business. Whether that’s a nonprofit, a social enterprise, a small mom-and-pop shop up the street,” said Sirrita Darby with Minority Freedom Community Fund.
The community fund started a crowdfunding campaign called the Black Bottom Campaign to raise funds for Black-owned businesses and nonprofits across the country, including in Detroit.
“If you’re not familiar with Black Bottom, just before the 1960s, it was that thriving Black neighborhood where we had these businesses and communities that were thriving. So we launched this campaign and we noticed that these Black-owned businesses are struggling,” Darby said.