SLATE-Z Q3 Small Business & Entrepreneurship Workgroup

At SLATE-Z, we address poverty and move South Los Angeles residents to economic opportunity by focusing on two sources of wealth building: living wage jobs and small business & entrepreneurship.

As our nation recovers from the COVID-19 global pandemic and enters the new climate resilient economy, Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs provide a stable avenue of growth in the South Los Angeles Promise Zone.

SLATE-Z works to prepare Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs for the economic opportunities ahead by focusing on their foundational needs (leases, bank accounts, etc.), sustainability (economic and environmental sustainability), and growth (procurement contracts with the City of Los Angeles, LA County, and private funders) to build wealth.

SLATE-Z’s Small Business & Entrepreneurship efforts are interrelated with its other levers of change: education, jobs transit, education, and public safety.