{"id":29400,"date":"2021-03-09T08:46:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T14:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=29400"},"modified":"2021-03-09T14:38:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T20:38:31","slug":"report-black-businesses-in-canada-face-lack-of-funding-mentorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/news\/report-black-businesses-in-canada-face-lack-of-funding-mentorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Black businesses in Canada face lack of funding, mentorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated systemic problems previously existed, the report found.<\/strong><\/p><p>If banks and public policymakers did more to help Black-owned businesses overcome systemic obstacles&nbsp;it would better help the economy overall, a new report finds.<\/p><p>That\u2019s the main conclusion of a new report published by the Canadian Black Chamber of Commerce this week&nbsp;in a comprehensive attempt to grasp the challenges facing Canada\u2019s Black business community.<\/p><p>More than 1.2 million people of African Caribbean and Black descent call Canada home\u2014a significant demographic cohort that is being held back&nbsp;from reaching its full potential, according to the report.<\/p><p>\u201cLet\u2019s just level the playing field and give people a fair chance to succeed and to thrive,\u201d CBCC president&nbsp;Christelle&nbsp;Francois said in an interview. \u201cIt\u2019s good for the business, it\u2019s good for the people loaning the money, it\u2019s good for our whole economy.\u201d<\/p><p>One of the biggest obstacles facing the Black business community, Francois says, is a lack of data about the realities on the ground for Black business owners.<\/p><p>She added that one of the principal aims of the report is to set a baseline to see where the Black business community stands today, so future research can help measure and improve progress.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated systemic problems previously existed, the  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":29405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1338],"tags":[4510,4464,4509],"class_list":["post-29400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-black-2","tag-businness","tag-covid-19-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29413,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29400\/revisions\/29413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}