We are gathering Black owned business names, location (DC, NYC, GENEVA, LONDON, DUBAI etc.) and signatures from you the general public and people of good conscience from around the world, requesting for the economic empowerment of Black Owned businesses worldwide.
This open letter will be sent open to US, all African Governments, Private Sector Leaders and the African Union invited to the US-Africa Summit with the following
CALL TO ACTION: 1. Support the economic empowerment of Black entrepreneurs by spending their dollars prioritizing Black owned businesses. The governments and private sector leaders from Africa must make it a policy to be patronizing Black businesses when they attend international events and have official visits outside of Africa to the Diaspora.
2. It is in this light that we, MIPAD, hereby call on the U.S. Department of State and the City of Government in the District of Columbia to coordinate efforts to have a readily available and current Black-owned business directory made available to invited delegations. If you are a Black owned business and will like to be included in this global Black business directory, fill form below or visit https://bit.ly/OpenLetterUSAfricaSummit
"It is estimated that the presence of these African delegations in Washington, DC during this period will contribute millions of dollars to the US economy with mandatory diplomatic travel & tourism spend including personal expenditures. We appeal to our African public and private sector leaders to become intentional about driving Black economic empowerment in the USA and across the Diaspora. The plan is to simply leverage their presence in these international cities to create a support mechanism and economic security for Black Entrepreneurs. This will help advance Black entrepreneurship and Black-owned businesses as many recover from the pandemic, says Kamil Olufowobi, Founder & CEO, Most Influential People of African Descent."
A similar effort was co-ordinated by MIPAD, the City of New York and Office for Mayor Eric Adams of New York City during the annual United Nations General Assembly. Learn more about
Black Entrepreneurs NYC (BE NYC)To add your signature to this letter, please review it here: https://www.mipad.org/files/MIPAD_Open_Letter_to_US_African_Goverments.pdf
Upon review and consent, please fill out the form below and encourage others to do so too and let's grow this global campaign
For more information, please contact the coordinating organization; Most Influential People of African Descent (MIPAD) we stand for Black Economic Empowerment! Email - open.letters@mipad.org
