‘We Don’t Have The Luxury Of Waiting For Politicians’: Local Black Orgs Fill Funding Gap

"The Cincinnati region is home to one of the nation's strongest ecosystems for entrepreneurs of color. We don’t have the luxury of waiting for politicians to devise solutions, many of which will fall short of our true needs," MORTAR Development Director and Co-Founder Derrick Braziel says in a release. "The only way this generation of hard-working, job-creating businesses will survive is by identifying needed resources and creating a mutual aid network to fill those needs.”