As part of our ‘Partner Spotlight’ series, we introduce our 2025 ECOSYSTEM partner, BlackGirlMagicMarket. Black Girl Magic Market (BGMM) is a mission-driven business support organization dedicated to empowering Black Women business owners and minority entrepreneurs.
Describe your organization in 25 words or less.
Shemekka Ebony, LLC dba Black Girl Magic Market serves the mission: to create economic opportunities for Black Women Business Owners, Entrepreneurs and manufacturers of goods and services. While creating such experiences, the bonus results are co-designing of lasting opportunities, equitably distributed resources, skills share, shared lived experience expertise.
How does your organization support entrepreneurs?
Black Girl Magic Market pop-up tour travels into communities providing awareness, access to resources, and education about Business Ownership and Entrepreneur Opportunities available for the Black community. Our Vendor Expo Events are geographically targeting the east and southern coasts. The tour also seeks to target Black Business Leaders & Owners in the target communities to share education and resources with a participant audience of vendors and shoppers virtually and in-person across geography US respectively. Black Women Entrepreneurs are identified as vendors who pay vendor fees to vend as well as pay for business support and personalized coaching. The general public is targeted for shopping transactions virtually and within targeted cities.
What can those reading this do to support your company? How can they help?
Support the work of BGMM by becoming a sponsor, host a cohort of entrepreneurs and founders that would benefit from Group Accountability and Leadership Development to build their readiness and capacity to scale their businesses.
What is the biggest challenge your organization is currently facing?
We seek to impact thousands of Black Women Business Owners and other under-serviced BIPOC community populations in NC Urban and Rural cities and towns. As a result of our services, Black Communities are connected to more resources, community networking, and personal/professional development opportunities. Black Girl Magic Market is a for profit initiative that acts as a CDFI. We are challenged by access to funding for professional and personal development leadership programs that would benefit rising BIPOC founders and entrepreneurs.
What problem is your organization trying to solve?
Our organization addresses the gaps in access to resources and capital as Black Women Founders and Entrepreneurs. Our work centers increasing access to building capacity with minority women business owners and manufacturers of goods and services in North Carolina. This aligns with addressing the Women’s Pay Equity gap. Our work creates spaces for Black Women to raise access to resources and capital which are vital to their success and sustainability as minority women entrepreneurs and founders.
Published April 14, 2025
Submission Provided by: Shemekka Stewart-Isaacs
(Founder and CEO)
As part of our ‘Partner Spotlight’ series, we introduce our 2025 ECOSYSTEM partner, BlackGirlMagicMarket. Black Girl Magic Market (BGMM) is a mission-driven business support organization dedicated to empowering Black Women business owners and minority entrepreneurs.
Describe your organization in 25 words or less.
Shemekka Ebony, LLC dba Black Girl Magic Market serves the mission: to create economic opportunities for Black Women Business Owners, Entrepreneurs and manufacturers of goods and services. While creating such experiences, the bonus results are co-designing of lasting opportunities, equitably distributed resources, skills share, shared lived experience expertise.
How does your organization support entrepreneurs?
Black Girl Magic Market pop-up tour travels into communities providing awareness, access to resources, and education about Business Ownership and Entrepreneur Opportunities available for the Black community. Our Vendor Expo Events are geographically targeting the east and southern coasts. The tour also seeks to target Black Business Leaders & Owners in the target communities to share education and resources with a participant audience of vendors and shoppers virtually and in-person across geography US respectively. Black Women Entrepreneurs are identified as vendors who pay vendor fees to vend as well as pay for business support and personalized coaching. The general public is targeted for shopping transactions virtually and within targeted cities.
What can those reading this do to support your company? How can they help?
Support the work of BGMM by becoming a sponsor, host a cohort of entrepreneurs and founders that would benefit from Group Accountability and Leadership Development to build their readiness and capacity to scale their businesses.
What is the biggest challenge your organization is currently facing?
We seek to impact thousands of Black Women Business Owners and other under-serviced BIPOC community populations in NC Urban and Rural cities and towns. As a result of our services, Black Communities are connected to more resources, community networking, and personal/professional development opportunities. Black Girl Magic Market is a for profit initiative that acts as a CDFI. We are challenged by access to funding for professional and personal development leadership programs that would benefit rising BIPOC founders and entrepreneurs.
What problem is your organization trying to solve?
Our organization addresses the gaps in access to resources and capital as Black Women Founders and Entrepreneurs. Our work centers increasing access to building capacity with minority women business owners and manufacturers of goods and services in North Carolina. This aligns with addressing the Women’s Pay Equity gap. Our work creates spaces for Black Women to raise access to resources and capital which are vital to their success and sustainability as minority women entrepreneurs and founders.
Published April 14, 2025
Submission Provided by: Shemekka Stewart-Isaacs
(Founder and CEO)
