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Episode 13 – G.I.F.T. is Breaking Barriers to Financing and Networks for Black Businesses

MBE Magazine Staff

Brandon Calloway is CEO and co-founder of G.I.F.T., Generating Income for Tomorrow, a startup non-profit which grows Black-owned businesses in Kansas City’s urban core with a new model for growth. Brandon shares how G.I.F.T. has given $1,237,000 to 63 Black-owned businesses in Kansas City’s urban core in the past three years. 

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