Access Granted

Access Granted

Reading Time: 3 minutesEven if you haven’t experienced it personally, we’ve all seen that scene in a movie or TV show where the main character shows up to the city’s new, trendy nightclub – you know, the one where everyone who’s made it inside so far throughout...
Let’s Get to the Money

Let’s Get to the Money

Reading Time: 2 minutes“We are happy to get the kind of money that jingles, but we’d rather have the kind that folds.” That line from “Coming to America” was great. It echoed the offering time at churches and on tv that many of us roll...
Celebrating Letting Go while Holding On

Celebrating Letting Go while Holding On

Reading Time: < 1 minuteBy Shannon Hooten, Strategic Director This month, I celebrate three whole years at MORTAR! I still feel absolutely blessed to have found this place. I have been challenged in more ways than I can count but in ways that have allowed me to...
the WOMEN of MORTAR – Kiaya Carter

the WOMEN of MORTAR – Kiaya Carter

Reading Time: 3 minutes Meet Kiaya Carter. Kiaya is the creative powerhouse and Chief Operator of I Am Kiaya, under her tutelage, lives a conceptual documentary-style photography company, Black woman-centered birth doula services, and a consulting business that...
the WOMEN of MORTAR – Katie Lindsay

the WOMEN of MORTAR – Katie Lindsay

Reading Time: 1 minute   What was your experience like going through the MORTAR program? KL: Going through the MORTAR class was enlightening. Like the lightbulb went off. I had been catering but didn’t know what direction or what resources to use or how to establish...