About Project Vanguard

In recognition of the emergence of businesses owned by Black and Latina women as an opportunity for both job and wealth creation, the Center launched Project Vanguard as a multi-sector collaborative effort to accelerate wealth creation opportunities, and to build capacity, to identify and leverage opportunities in public and private sector market, and to accelerate the journey from ready-to-scalable for Black and Latina women in the opportunity-rich Minneapolis-St. Paul region.

New Research

To support and advance the work of Project Vanguard, the Center commissioned a collaborative research process to co-create data-informed recommendations for building anti-racist, systematic changes in procurement, lending, and ecosystem resources that can foster a resilient, local, inclusive supply chain.