Monday = 💰Grants, 💸 Angel Investors, 💼Job Opportunities, 💲 Venture Capital, 📆Events
A network aims to train, mentor, and connect, RICH + RIOT Office Hours, Glossier Grant Program, A way to say “YES”!
Here is what to expect is in this newsletter:
A network aims to train, mentor, and connect current and aspiring Black scouts to ensure they have the knowledge, tools, and support they need to be successful.
Glossier Grant Program
Investment program created with beginners and intermediate investors
A beauty conglomerate hiring
A way to say “YES”!
🗣From the Founder (Kamilah)
Happy Money Monday to everyone! I hope you all have a prosperous week. Who is ready for summer? We are finalizing all of our summer office hours and events. The first summer office hours event is
RICH + RIOT Office Hours - Building a Brand through Community. Join us May 27th at 12:00 pm PST / 3:00 for an interactive fireside chat with the head of community at Geneva and previously community manager at Glossier Kim Johnson. We will discuss how we can build community with ourselves as entrepreneurs and in our businesses to stand firm through both the current crisis and whatever the future holds.
In this interactive fireside chat office hours, you'll:
Hear real-life examples of what it looks like to be part of a resilient community.
Share the practices and actions that you've found most helpful for building your community.
Learn approaches for proactively building resilient communities in your brand and your businesses to survive and thrive during crises.
Connect with other entrepreneurs and learn from their successes and mistakes.
🤑 Let’s have some FUNding.
💰Grants
The Glossier Grant Program provides advisory support and $500k in grants to 16 innovative Black-owned beauty companies.
Applications are live today through May 27th and will be reviewed on three main criteria:
Purpose: The inspiration and purpose behind your business and the impact you hope to achieve both for your customers and the broader community
Differentiation: What sets your brand and products apart from others in your category
Business Plan: Your plans for business growth and how Glossier’s Grant Program will help you achieve your goals
You can get started here:
💸 Angel Investors
Investing as a Catalyst by Arlan Hamiltons Created with beginners and intermediate investors, alike, in mind is a 4-weeks (virtual) instruction, June 1 - June 28 with:
4-weeks (virtual) instruction, June 1 - June 28
Weekly on-demand content and materials (lifetime access)
Weekly LIVE sessions with w/in-depth discussions & breakout rooms
Case studies & guest speakers
Interactive investing opportunities
Topics include: crafting a thesis, choosing a structure, forming SPVs, attracting LPs, building brand and reputation, working solo or with others, and much more.
💼Job Opportunities
Underlining is a CPG beauty conglomerate. Their three brands: TatBrow® (eyebrows), Nailboo® (nails) & HIDE® (color cosmetics), have generated over 1,000,000 customers within their first three years in business.Underlining is looking for a Creative Director with eCommerce experience (a plus if having worked with beauty or skincare brands).
Embedded Ventures is looking for a Social Media Strategist Intern! Embedded Ventures is a deep tech firm that primarily invests in pre-seed/seed stage startups solving complex problems. They support, mentor, and invest in the absolute best teams... which means they must be diverse. More info on the internship here!
Join Rich + Riot’s membership for access to more resources like this. Be a part of a community of women entrepreneurs who make waves and support one another while they do it. As a member of Rich + Riot, you will receive:
💌 Weekly Resources and opportunities are emailed directly to your inbox weekly.
🔗 “The Connect” Directory access - You will be listed on our directory and have access to all of our community members.
💻 Access to the community on a forum where you can connect with others 1:1
☎️ Live Office Hours- Opportunities to participate in live virtual Q&As and mentoring sessions with experts. You'll get full access to an archive of these sessions if you can't catch them in real-time.
🎟 Free tickets to networking events (when outside opens up again 🤞)
👚 Free candle or t-shirt mailed directly to you :)
💲 Venture Capital
BLCK VC’s Scout Network aims to train, mentor, and connect current and aspiring Black scouts to ensure they have the knowledge, tools, and support they need to be successful. Apply here by 23 May.
📆Events
2021 Urban Tech Connect Conference -This is a different type of conference. A conference for those who think differently. Not business as usual, looking to gather to touch base. It’s for those looking to disrupt. Venture funds, startup, and established geniuses, financiers, founders. A diverse array of tech wizards. All coming together in one place. Because that is what top talent does, unite to raise the bar.
RICH + RIOT Office Hours - Building a Brand through Community. Join us May 27th at 12:00 pm PST / 3:00 for an interactive fireside chat with the head of community at Geneva and previously community manager at Glossier Kim Johnson. We will discuss how we can build community with ourselves as entrepreneurs and in our businesses to stand firm through both the current crisis and whatever the future holds.
🛠 Tech Tools - My absolute favorite things!
Ko-fi is the friendly way to ask fans to support your work for the price of a coffee. Coffee's just a metaphor (You don’t have to buy actual coffee!). Ask your fans and followers to support you, receive messages of encouragement and celebrate when you reach your goal!
🔮Business Alchemy ✨
WOO, There it is! Let’s pull a card and get inspired for the week.
△ Work Your Light Activation: Don’t overthink it. Just say YES. △
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Card of the week from The Work Your Light Oracle.
Rich + Riot was previously a product brand with an empowerment message; now, it is an empowerment community with just a few products. Rich + Riot is about empowering female entrepreneurship and encouraging collaborations.