BIPOC Micro-Manufacturing Grant

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More than 25 Tempe-based micro-manufacturing businesses owned by BIPOC entrepreneurs received a new grant offered by the City of Tempe.

A total of 27 Black, Indigenous and people of color micro-manufacturers received up to $25,000 in grant funds they can use to help them grow their businesses.

Micro-manufacturing is the creation of products in small quantities, often using smaller manufacturing facilities. According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, about 11% of Arizona small businesses are minority-owned.

Entrepreneurship is one way that people can create financial prosperity for themselves and their families. Recognizing that gap, the City of Tempe set aside $300,000 and partnered with Rep. Greg Stanton to secure $500,000 in federal funding. This $800,000 fund is providing up to $25,000 stipends to BIPOC-owned businesses that they can use for rent, supplies, tools, anything they need to succeed. They also received a Tempe Chamber of Commerce membership.

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See the 2023 Grant Recipients

bipoc winners Grant recipients include:
The Molecules Company
Big Red Hot Sauce
White Hawk Industries
Simply Wick
Alpha Manufacturing Solutions
Black Russian Label
Pastiche La Femme
LaMark Cole, LLC
Heights Apparel
Technoir Candy
We Kingz Bro Apparel
Ms. Martha’s Caribbean Kitchen
Yhorlife
Conscious Gear
Pure Juice N'Joy Smoothie & Juice
Skate Forty8
OXDX
Midge Chocolate
Goldstar Shea Butter
Sassy Cones
Fresh Peak
Salad Sistah

*R Spa and Wellness Center
*RPH Beauty
*Satiete
*Sugar Puffs

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Program Coordinators

All monies for this grant have been awarded. Applications for the Tempe BIPOC Micro-Manufacturing Grant were submitted to one of the following organizations:

FABRIC Tempe is set up to provide apparel entrepreneurs with all of the guidance, education and consulting that they need to start and grow a business that manufactures sewn products.
The Tempe Chamber of Commerce has been serving the business community for over 100 years in the areas of funding, marketing, HR, management and others.
Hustle PHX offers the 101 Entrepreneurship Program, which affords participants the intellectual, social and financial capital along with mentorship to support them in building a business. They have helped launch 300 small businesses.
Pacific Southwest Minority Supplier Development Council is a leading non-profit that has been advocating for Minority Business Enterprises since 1993. The non-profit has programs addressing the specific issues of small minority enterprises, with an emphasis on small Black-owned manufacturing businesses.
RAIL CDC’s Equitable Small Business Technical Assistance Program provides free one-on-one consulting and technical assistance services to business owners and entrepreneurs in our commercial corridors, focusing on immigrant-, women- and minority-owned businesses.
State of Black Arizona - The State of Black Arizona is a nonprofit organization that creates a platform for the synthesis of data, demographics, and research that informs the community on the status of African Americans in Arizona.

The data is intended to help community leaders and organizations on effective action planning and decision making related to the issues and concerns that impact us the most. This group will conduct all follow up for data collection for the BIPOC Micro-Manufacturing Grant and report to the City of Tempe on a quarterly basis.

Grant Process - concluded

This program is closed.

Businesses awarded a BIPOC Micro-manufacturing Grant were evaluated on the below criteria:

The business is currently associated with enrolled in a training or mentorship program or has membership with a partnering grant program coordinator and that partner is recommending them for this grant.
Business must produce a physical product that is produced in batches and sold wholesale or retail. Restaurants or catering companies are not eligible.
Business can demonstrate a finished product or a viable prototype and has clearly identified opportunities for sales and an identified target market.
Business is independent and located in Tempe. It can be a home business.
Business owner is BIPOC.
Business has less than $500,000 in sales.
Business is registered and in good standing with the Arizona Corporation Commission.
Max amount available per business is $25,000.
Funds are only available for equipment, raw materials, inventory, and lease payments.
Applications will only be accepted from the contracted BIPOC grant program coordinators. Applications from other sources will not be accepted.

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Representatives of the non-profit organizations that will select companies for the new manufacturing grants, Mayor Corey Woods and Congressman Greg Stanton at the Oct. 6 launch event. Watch the video.

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BIPOC Micro-Manufacturing Grant

This program is closed.

Businesses awarded a BIPOC Micro-manufacturing Grant were evaluated on the below criteria: