Southern Restaurants for Racial Justice Heinz x Lee Initiative grant
Offering grants in the amount of $15,000 to $25,000 to Black-owned food businesses, both existing and startups. Prizes also include a continuing education component for grantees, with seminars led by food-industry veterans covering topics such as commercial leases, small business accounting, and employee training and retention. Our First Two Years In June 2020, our first initiative to create a pandemic emergency relief fund to support Black owned-restaurants in the South raised nearly $100k, and with the incredible success of that, we started looking at how we could seriously impact both our southern Black communities and restaurant industry. The Lee Initiative…