What Is FroFessionals About?
FroFessionals.com is a subscription-based business listing platform for Black Entrepreneurs. FroFessionals previously only featured textured hair care professionals, but has rebranded to include Health Care Professionals and all Business Industries. FroFessionals uses marketing strategies that cater to and engage communities of color to buy black, and to support locally.
FroFessionals reinvests subscription fees back into the communities that support our businesses, thus creating a financial ecosystem where both the patron and the professional profit. We use targeted marketing strategies that promote and draw traffic to our Fro-Fessionals that help them increase their customer base and expand their footprint locally and nationwide.
And yes, our platform still caters to the textured hair community of kinky, curly, coily and biracial crowns and help them to find products and professionals that cater to their specialized needs.
FroFessionals doubles as a nonprofit organization with a mission to stall the mass incarceration of Blacks and Browns by increasing access to Quality Mental Health Care, Legal Representation and Wealth Building Opportunities. Our nonprofit status and business model has the key elements to create a robust and self-restoring funding source to support community initiatives such as small business grants, mental health care, and legal support for the accused. Plus half of your subscription fees are tax deductible!
INCREASE MENTAL HEALTH ACCESS
Proceeds will be used to reimburse mental health providers who treat low income, underinsured and historically underserved people of color on a sliding scale basis.
LEGAL ADVOCACY
FroFessionals aims to grant black and brown boys and girls, at risk of mass incarceration, with a prepaid legal subscription at age 18. We are also developing a lawyer led, adjudication deferral and advocacy program to support those at risk of mass incarceration.
WEALTH BUILDING INITIATIVES
FroFessionals aims to support financial literacy programs AND offer business start up grants to budding entrepreneurs who are primed and poised for success. Future goals involve working to help more low to middle income people to reach the goal of home ownership.
THE FOUNDER
April Phillips is a trauma therapist, born in Arkansas, raised in South Central Los Angeles, educated by 2 HBCU’s and the daughter of a Panamanian Mother and African American Vietnam Veteran. She runs a private counseling practice and has been a resident of North Austin for 15+ years. She educates nationally and internationally about mental health care as a basic human right, is an advocate for criminal justice, and promotes financial wellness as a part of holistic health care.
List your business TODAY and join what will soon become a nationwide platform that connects Black Entrepreneurs, Health Care Practitioners, and Hair Care Professionals with their targeted audiences.