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The Black Star Project's
Public Policy and Economic Empowerment Luncheon Series
featuring
Baron Waller
Owner of Culver's
Chicago, New Lenox, and Lockport, Illinois
Topic: A Taste of Culver's Excellence with a Black Owner Operator
Lunch includes "A Taste of Culver's"
Sample the best of Culver's - Butterburgers, Cheeseburgers, Chicken Sandwishes, Salads, Soups, Chilis, Fish Sandwiches, Beef Sandwiches, Shrimp and More. Taste all of these for lunch!
12:00 noon
Thursday, March 15, 2018
The Black Star Project
3509 South King Drive
Chicago, Illinois
(Only 50 Seats Available)
Baron Waller recently purchased, built, and opened Culver's restaurant in Lockport, Illinois and Chicago, Illinois. He has owned and operated a successful Culver's restaurant in New Lenox, Illinois for over three years. He earned a B.S from Wayne State University and an MBA from the University of Michigan. Previously, he work as a Sales Manager, Business Development Manager and a System Channel Manager at IBM.
Mr. Waller is a high-energy motivated peak-performer with a verifiable record of accomplishments within a competitive environment. His strong communication, motivational and interpersonal skills effectively compliments performance and documented results. He is result-oriented and customer-focused with strong presentation, analytical, and negotiation skills and a strong management and business acumen. He is accustomed to managing result-oriented and solution-focused individuals and teams to set expectations and overachieve objectives.
His specialties are: Marketing, Sales, server technology, channels knowledge, pricing strategy and negotiations, marketing programs, sales incentives, sales management, pipeline management and development, virtualization, consolidation with dynamic infrastructure
This Luncheon Includes:
- A presentation by Mr. Waller
- Lunch provided by Culver's
- Sponsorship of a community not-for-profit
- Networking with top Chicago business people
- Free admission to two college students
Cost: Members - $35.00
General Public - $45.00
Please RSVP to 773.285.9600 by 3/13/2018. Free parking available in the rear. Short taxi ride from downtown Chicago. The new Culver's in Chicago is located at 3355 South King Drive. Culver's in New Lenox is located at 421 E. Lincoln Highway. Culver's in Lockport is located at 15940 S. Farrell Avenue.
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The Black Star Project's
Public Policy and Economic Empowerment Luncheon Series
featuring
William Towns
Executive Director
Benefit Chicago
Topic: Delivering $100 million in impact investments
for nonprofits and social enterprises working throughout the Chicago region.
12:00 noon
Thursday, March 22, 2018
The Black Star Project
3509 South King Drive
Chicago, Illinois
William W. Towns is a scholar activist and practitioner dedicated to helping solve civic and urban issues at the structural level. William is the inaugural executive director of Benefit Chicago, a collaboration between The Chicago Community Trust, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and Calvert Impact Capital, to create a $100 million impact investment fund targeting the social enterprise sector in the Chicago region. His responsibilities include strategy development, investor and media relations, and deal sourcing.
Recent Deals that Put Money in the Hands of Chicago Organizations include:
AutonomyWorks is a for-profit social enterprise that provides meaningful employment for adults with autism. The $600,000 loan will be used to expand marketing and training activities to increase the number of people hired.
CNI is a Community Development Corporation (CDC) and certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) that engages in comprehensive revitalization work in Chicago's economically challenged neighborhoods. Proceeds from the $2 million loan will be used in part to facilitate the completion of the 111th Street Retail Gateway in Pullman, which is currently under construction.
Garfield Produce Company is an indoor, vertical hydroponic vegetable farm that creates sustainable local employment and generates wealth in disinvested neighborhoods through the production and sale of high quality fresh produce year-round. Garfield Produce will use its $500,000 loan to expand production capacity and hire additional employees.
Sweet Beginnings, a wholly owned for-profit subsidiary of the North Lawndale Employment Network, uses the production of beelove™ - a line of honey-based products - to provide job training to community residents who, due to former incarceration or other circumstances, have found it difficult to procure gainful employment. The $500,000 loan will be used to expand production and sales, which will make it possible to increase the number of individuals served and their length of employment.
This Luncheon Includes:
- A presentation by Mr. Towns
- Lunch provided by a Black-owned restaurant or caterer firm
- Sponsorship of a community not-for-profit
- Networking with top Chicago business people
- Free admission to two college students
Cost: Members - $35.00
General Public - $45.00
Please RSVP to 773.285.9600 by 3/18/2018.
Free parking available in the rear. Short taxi ride from downtown Chicago. Click Here to see video on the work of Benefit Chicago
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The Black Star Project's
Radio Show on WVON
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Giving EX-Offenders
A Second Chance
Erik Rico Nance
has hired hundreds of ex-offenders
and they haven't let him down yet.
Black Dollar Stamp
Saturday, March 3, 2018
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm CST
Join us at 7:00 pm Eastern; 6:00 pm Central; 5:00 pm Mountain; 4:00 pm Pacific; 3:00 pm Alaskan; 2:00 pm Hawaiian. Call-In number at 773-591-1690
Listen to The Black Star Project's
Internationally Acclaimed Radio Program
Every Saturday on WVON 1690AM
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"Black Americans have clearly put a tremendous amount of personal effort into improving their social and economic standing," said Valerie Wilson, director of Economic Policy Institute's Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy and a co-author of the report, "but that effort only goes so far when you're working within structures that were never intended to give equal outcomes."
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Fifty Years On, African Americans Still Face
Economic Disadvantages
FEBRUARY 28, 2018
 Fifty years after the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders - better known as the Kerner Commission - delivered a groundbreaking report to President Lyndon B. Johnson citing the lack of economic opportunity in African-American communities as a chief cause of civil unrest in the country, African Americans are still economically disadvantaged compared to whites, an issue brief from the Economic Policy Institute finds.
The brief, Fifty Years After the Kerner Commission (8 pages, PDF), found that while 92.3 percent of African Americans between the ages of 25 and 29 have earned a high school diploma - up from 54.4 percent in 1968 - and 22.8 percent have a college degree - up from 9.1 percent fifty years ago - African Americans are still half as likely as their white peers to have a college degree. The report also found that improvements in educational attainment have led to absolute increases in wages, incomes, wealth, and health for African Americans, but that they remain at a disadvantage relative to white Americans: in 2017, for example, African Americans earned 82.5 cents for every dollar white workers made, while the unemployment rate for African Americans was 7.5 percent, compared with 3.8 percent for white Americans. Moreover, the median wealth of African-American families today ($17,409) is just 10.2 percent of the median wealth of white families ($171,000), while the homeownership rate among African Americans remains unchanged at just over 41 percent, even as white homeownership has increased by 5.2 percentage points, to 71.1 percent.
According to the analysis, there has been a significant decline in infant mortality rates for African Americans over the last fifty years, from 34.9 per 100,000 in 1968 to 11.4 per 100,000 in 2017, although the rate for African-American babies is 2.3 times higher than for white babies. But over the same period the incarceration rate for African Americans has tripled, from 604 per 100,000 in 1968 to 1,730 per 100,000, and while the rate for white Americans has also increased, from 111 per 100,000 to 270 per 100,0000, African Americans are 6.4 times as likely as white Americans to be incarcerated.
"Black Americans have clearly put a tremendous amount of personal effort into improving their social and economic standing," said Valerie Wilson, director of EPI's Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy and a co-author of the report, "but that effort only goes so far when you're working within structures that were never intended to give equal outcomes."
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The Black Star Project's
Public Policy and Economic Empowerment Luncheon Series
featuring
William Towns
Executive Director
Benefit Chicago
Topic: Delivering $100 million in impact investments
for nonprofits and social enterprises working throughout the Chicago region.
12:00 noon
Thursday, March 22, 2018
The Black Star Project
3509 South King Drive
Chicago, Illinois
William W. Towns is a scholar activist and practitioner dedicated to helping solve civic and urban issues at the structural level. William is the inaugural executive director of Benefit Chicago, a collaboration between The Chicago Community Trust, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and Calvert Impact Capital, to create a $100 million impact investment fund targeting the social enterprise sector in the Chicago region. His responsibilities include strategy development, investor and media relations, and deal sourcing.
Recent Deals that Put Money in the Hands of Chicago Organizations include:
AutonomyWorks is a for-profit social enterprise that provides meaningful employment for adults with autism. The $600,000 loan will be used to expand marketing and training activities to increase the number of people hired.
CNI is a Community Development Corporation (CDC) and certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) that engages in comprehensive revitalization work in Chicago's economically challenged neighborhoods. Proceeds from the $2 million loan will be used in part to facilitate the completion of the 111th Street Retail Gateway in Pullman, which is currently under construction.
Garfield Produce Company is an indoor, vertical hydroponic vegetable farm that creates sustainable local employment and generates wealth in disinvested neighborhoods through the production and sale of high quality fresh produce year-round. Garfield Produce will use its $500,000 loan to expand production capacity and hire additional employees.
Sweet Beginnings, a wholly owned for-profit subsidiary of the North Lawndale Employment Network, uses the production of beelove™ - a line of honey-based products - to provide job training to community residents who, due to former incarceration or other circumstances, have found it difficult to procure gainful employment. The $500,000 loan will be used to expand production and sales, which will make it possible to increase the number of individuals served and their length of employment.
This Luncheon Includes:
- A presentation by Mr. Towns
- Lunch provided by a Black-owned restaurant or caterer
- Sponsorship of a community not-for-profit
- Networking with top Chicago business people
- Free admission to two college students
Cost: Members - $35.00
General Public - $45.00
Please RSVP to 773.285.9600 by 3/18/2018.
Free parking available in the rear. Short taxi ride from downtown Chicago. Click Here to see video on the work of Benefit Chicago
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Business of Ministry
Action Plan (BMAP)
of the
Chicago Theological Seminary
Student Organization
invited students to learn how to create successful nonprofits
(Standing - left to right) BMAP Board Members Aris Simpson, Erica Weathers and Sherrie Phillips Johnson. Seated - left to right) Panelist and nonrofit operators - Erik Rico Nance of Litehouse Whole Food Grill; Rev. Gloria J. Randolph of Giving God the Glory Ministries, Inc; and Phillip Jackson of The Black Star Project. The panel answered questions about best practices for nonprofits and the elements of success for nonprofits. |
Blacks in America have about a $1.3 trillion gross national income. Only 2% of that money, about $26 billion, is re-circulated in the Black community. The Black Star Project is working to change this narrative!
Dear Supporter of Progress,
1) Become at least a $50 member of The Black Star Project.
2) Receive a "Circulate Black Dollars in Black Communities" stamp.
4) Encourage all of your family and friends to do the same.
6) Think to shop with a Black business, professional, contractor, tradesman or vendor first, and then shop with others if you must.
7) Help set up networks, directories and list of Black vendors in your area.
8) Honor the Covenant between Black consumers and Black businesses.
9) Teach Black youth financial literacy and how to shop with Black companies.
10) Help us raise the amount of money re-circulated in the Black community from 2% to 4%, an additional $26 billion, in 2018.
Because of support from people like you, The Black Star Project will be able to manage this program for the entire year. This is how we get our young Black men to turn away from a life of violence and despair, and move towards employment, entrepreneurship, business ownership and community building.
No more waiting for federal, state or municipal government. No more waiting on foundations. No more waiting for institutions of higher education. We must take our destiny into our hands. Your support is crucial to helping solve the problems in our communities.
Please become a member of The Black Star Project and make a difference in our communities. With your support, we will experience great success in 2018 and beyond. Just click the orange DONATE NOW button (orCLICK HERE) to make your investment in the future of our race!
Sincerely, 
Phillip Jackson
Chairman of the Board of Directors
773.285.9600
P.S. You may also donate by sending a check or money order to The Black Star Project, 3509 South King Dr. Suite 2B, Chicago, IL 60653. Make all checks and money orders should be payable to "The Black Star Project". Thank you so much for your generosity! All investments are deductible to the extent allowed by 501c3 law.
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