FroFessionals: The Business & The Mission
The BUSINESS:
FroFessionals.com is a subscription-based business listing platform for Black Professionals and Entrepreneurs that markets and caters to Communities of Color. Set up your (FREE BUSINESS PROFILE TODAY!) and help patrons locate you by category & zip code. Be Found on FroFessionals.com!
THE MISSION:
FroFessionals doubles as a nonprofit organization that reinvests fees for services from advertisements on the platform, back into the community to support Financial Literacy/Wealth Building initiatives, Legal Advocacy & Mental Health access. Community Education initiatives also use the performing arts to impart complicated and sensitive topics, in palatable and entertaining ways.
Wealth Building
FroFessionals hosts “The Annual Crown Act Festival”, a cultural Celebration of Natural Hair, Health and Wealth. This festival boasts of a vast array of black owned business vendors, musical and dance performances, Central Texan’s best Soul Food, an Extravagant Hair Show, and Financial Literacy Workshops. We also partner with companies that offer free financial literacy classes to the community.
Legal Advocacy
Your advertising fees promote your businesses and events, plus support legal advocacy for black, brown and poor people.
Increase Access to Mental Health Care
Your advertising fees support programs that increase access to mental health care and treatment.
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 17 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.