Let's Be The Change That Our Community Needs

Minority entrepreneurs bring diversity to the marketplace, but they are consistently held back by a systemic series of barriers and challenges that test their resilience, determination, and perseverance.

Here are the facts:
● Black businesses still account for only 11% percent of all small businesses in the USA.
● In the history of Fortune 500, there have been only 16 black CEOs.
● Black businesses have been shortchanged out of the materials needed to be successful in building their economic wealth.

Our team at Vivian's Door has profound family legacies of black business community commerce. So, we want to provide innovative resources and create the places and spaces that empower these entrepreneurs to connect with their community and other supporters to change the narrative and invest back in their communities.

Vivian’s Door is an economic justice non-profit, founded in historic Mobile, Alabama, with a mission to help black owned businesses build wealth for themselves and residents in their communities which are marginalized, face systemic poverty, and experience low levels of venture capital.

The name Vivian's Door references the civil rights activism of Vivian Malone

Jones, who in 1963 defied Alabama Governor George Wallace's attempts to deny

her an education. With state troopers at her side, she marched through the

doors of the University of Alabama's School of Commerce and Business

Administration. Two years later, she became the first black graduate of the

University of Alabama. It is inspiration and courage like this that drives

minority entrepreneurs to open new doors in their communities every day.