- June 16, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
News 12 Staff
Jun 15, 2021, 9:44pm
Updated on: Jun 15, 2021, 10:27pm
Community leaders in Brooklyn gathered in front of a small business in Bed-Stuy to call for financial relief in order to save minority-owned businesses from shutting down.
Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) gathered with minority-owned small business owners, Brooklyn elected officials and other community leaders in front of Life Wellness Center in hopes to bring more financial relief to minority-owned businesses.
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the owner of Life Wellness Center Khadija Tudor, received a grant from LISC to help keep her doors open.
“LISC really supported us because when all of the grants were coming out and everyone was sending us you know…apply for this…get this loan. We were inundated one, it was kind of confusing to get through all the process and a lot of the things we did apply to we didn’t get through it,” said Tudor.
Tudor said they used…
