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Pinterest and Shopify are teaming up to empower entrepreneurs

Pinterest and Shopify are back to equip Black-owned small businesses with the resources they need to not only survive, but thrive. The social media platform and leading e-commerce brand’s incubator program will work together to help small businesses, independent publishers and boutique agencies of creators from historically marginalized communities.
Pinterest’s 2021 incubator program has supported greater than 150 content producers from underrepresented communities, helping participants from all over the world extend their path to success, according to a post on Pinterest’s website blog.
Currently, the initiative is expanding to include additional groups, including independent publishers and boutique creator agencies, which have the chance to reap the benefits of the offer. The program will provide content producers with the obligatory resources “to optimize organic content and grow on the platform.”
“We know there is a need for simple, scalable solutions that support the growth of underrepresented content producers, such as small businesses that are often under-resourced,” Constance Knight, director of content partnerships at Pinterest, said in an announcement. “This program is designed to help content producers learn to optimize their inspiring organic content on Pinterest and ultimately help them unlock greater opportunities for their business.”
With $1.5 billion in weekly savings on Pinterest, this system will open up an enormous opportunity for content producers to take their ideas and products to the subsequent level, reaching over half a billion individuals who consistently “search, save and shop on the platform.”
Participants will learn the way to use organic content, thereby increasing the worth of their brand. This includes learning how to connect your Shopify storefront to your Pinterest business account, with the e-commerce platform acting as an industry expert throughout this system and assisting with the means of choosing your final trade audiences and offering its industry expertise through training sessions.
“Shopify is committed to supporting the success of entrepreneurs from underrepresented communities through Shopify Build Black and Build Native,” Brandon Davenport, director of Equitable Commerce at Shopify, said in an announcement. “By working with the Pinterest Integration Fund, sellers can increase their success by reaching engaged audiences on a platform optimized for shoppers.”
Recipients will even receive individual educational resources and training, mentorship, monetary stipends in the shape of money and promoting credits, and a one-year paid subscription to content planning platforms akin to Tailwind.
To learn more about how to apply, click Here.
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Hot Girl Spirl

Megan Thee Stallion just isn’t only the lover of Tequila – he’s now a tycoon of Tequila. The three -time Grammy winner and licensed Hot Girl adds further flexibility to his CV with launch Funny girlsThe Premium Tequila brand designed to bring an event. Is there a greater option to rejoice 30 years than with a bottle (or two) of your personal alcohol?
Chicas Divertidas, which translates into “Fun Girls” in Spanish, hopes that he’ll bring all of the fun to the subsequent meeting. Star tequila is Apparently fabricated from simultaneous100% Agave Blue Weber, collected in the highest maturity from the red volcanic highlands in Mexico. Available in each Blanco and Reposado styles, Megan describes the recipe Chicas Divertidas as “light”, making it ideal for sipping, shooting and making memories.
“As someone who values good vibrations and wonderful memories, I knew that I wanted to create a tequila, which was designed to share and enjoy my hottia,” said Megan Thee Stallion in a press release. “Smooth, stuffy and premium. This process lasted many years and I am very proud that I can take another step as an entrepreneur. I know that hotties are ready – it’s time to give them a drink made by me! “
For the rapper “Hot Girl Summer” the standard of the brand shines through the product and its packaging. Inspired Angel’s trumpet flower – beautifully alive but fatal– Each bottle has sharp cuts and grooves resembling agave plant with shades of orange, pink, red and purple. The heart pierced with a dagger is on top, embodding the brand’s energy: sweet, elegant and the correct amount of cutting.
“The bottle is beautiful. It looks almost like a mixture or potion. This is a very high quality bottle; Has nice color gradients; My heart with a dagger upstairs; Golden accents. I think quality looks like. “She said Forbes.
This just isn’t just one other alcohol supported by a star. The star says that Chicas Divertidas is its extension.
“I’m not a brand ambassador for alcohol. I don’t only put my face on someone’s brand. This is my tequila – she explained. “I devoted time to making a liquid and a bottle. Everything on this represents me. This is my business; This is my company. And this distinguishes me from other alcohols with endowed celebrities. “

She continued: “Everyone knows that I am a culture of a hot girl. I like to play. I am a curator. When you go to parties, my experience shows that the drinker is tequila. It seems to me that this is only a universal happy drink. And I’ve always loved good reposado. This is my favorite. So I decided that I had to bring a climate for parties – with gifts. That’s how I came up with Chicas. “
And when you are wondering the right way to sustain, it has one easy advice: “Drink water after each shot. Stay hydrated. “
Funny white girls ($ 70.00) and Resto Chicasdivertidastapila.com AND Respertbar.com. It can be expected that the brand will soon start with chosen American retail sellers.
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Unemployed claims reach the largest weekly

The variety of unemployment claims increased greater than expected last week, because more candidates for the first time applied for unemployment profit.
According to CNN, It is estimated that 242,000 unemployment claims were made last weekAn increase of twenty-two,000 in comparison with the previous week. Apparently, economists expected about 220,000 claims to land.
The variety of unemployment claims submitted last week has been the largest weekly for over 4 months. Weekly claims have also been at the highest level since December.
Despite the growth, the American Department of Work The aforementioned snowstorms in some parts of the country and holidays on the occasion of the Presidential Day are guiltyWhich could cause some variability, informs.
“Extreme winter weather was mainly responsible for receiving in the initial claims last week,” said Samuel Tombs, the most important economist of the USA at Pantheon Macroeconomics.
How mass exemptions at federal level affect unemployment
It stays unclear how mass exemptions at federal level, directed by billionaire technology Elon Musk, who supervises the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (dog), will affect claims. According to Reuters, federal employees submit a separate compensation of unemployment, which, as stated, has a weekly delay. The latest data from February 15 show 614 people submitted to acquire advantages, which is barely one among the previous week.
“We will have to wait another week for details exactly how many initial claims were made throughout the country by former federal civilian employees, but this number was 614 in the week ending on February 15, only one – this is not a mistake – last week” – wrote Tombs in a note for investors on February 27. “It will take another week or two so that work reductions in the middle of the month will fully go into the given claims.”
The work report in February is to be published on March 7. Economists reportedly expect a rise in employment, predicting that the USA adds about 160,000 jobs in February.
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Cookbook at Down North Pizza down North Pizza

In the northern Philadelphia Down North Pizza is larger than a chunk of the enduring square Philly pizza. The founding father of Muhammad Abdul-Hadi created North Star for Hope through pizza slices when he opened a restaurant led by the mission focused on profit, down pizza within the Strawberry Mansion district in December 2020. Now he gives hope for the pages of his cookbook ,.
“I call it a memory with several recipes,” he said Black enterprise. “He is layered and has something for everyone. If you don’t care about the recipes and want to read cool stories and see photograph, it’s for you. If you want to delve into the rules and make a bomb pizza, it is also for you. “
In addition to the recipes and photos, there may be information in regards to the carving system and its evolution. Footnotes in the whole cookbook take people on a journey, how the Karcer system began with slavery and the way it evolved over the centuries. The cookbook also sheds light on life after imprisonment, with the stories of former prisoners from Philadelphia.
“I’ve always wanted to write a book, and when an opportunity appeared, I didn’t want a traditional cookbook,” says Abdul-Hadi. “The book had to embody the brand and what we represent in the area. (I wanted to show) people eating pizza in the neighborhood. We call it “pizza within the wild”. We want people to have a sense of brand and what we represent. “
Down North Pizza: A store with a pizza and a cookbook run by a mission
Abdul-Hadi comes from West Philly, but intentionally inbuilt North Pizza in Mainly the black district Strawberry Mansion. It is a spot that he thinks he witnessed a lot of transformations – from a red, white flight, drug crisis, poverty and lack of resources.
“Strawberry Mansion is one of the most underrated communities in Philadelphia,” said Abdul-Hadi. “Many times, when people open companies in such areas, rarely benefits the area. I wanted to change this narrative. “
Down North Pizza focuses on the community. Adbul-Hadi is especially concerned with recidivist and provides people a second probability after imprisonment. He knows first -hand challenges and judgments that were previously imprisoned because he was once of their shoes.
In his store, no two pizzas within the menu are the identical. “No Betta Love” is a pizza with 4 cheeses with “Norf” sauce. “Break You Off” is fabricated from lamb sausage, lemon ricotta, winter z’atar and garlic drizzle. While pizzas are different, two ingredients remain the identical: love Abdul-Hadi to the community and the gift of the second probability.
“I want to show the world that we are not our worst mistakes. We can do things if we get the right circumstances and bloom, “he says. “The brand is an example, and when you come to the store, you will see all this ten times, because it was very important to me.”
Money from each purchase-from a cookbook for a recycling pizza back to Strawberry Mansion through a pizza shop and the Abdul-Hadi foundation, down North Foundation.
“We have various initiatives that provide direct help to those in need. We build our initiatives out of necessity. “
One of the initiative he’s happy with is “protect your cot”, which helps people at risk of losing houses depending on real estate taxes. The Down North Pizza team paid criminal taxes for nearly a dozen or so people through the muse, which also helped residents to enroll in a program that stopped real estate tax increases for 10 years.
“Our greatest thing here is influence,” said Abdul-Hadi.
Part-Cookbook-And Part-Memoir is Available for online purchase.
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