ECONOMIC AGENCY STARTS HERE.
For more than twelve years, Black Women's Wealth Alliance has worked alongside Black women to strengthen the knowledge, relationships, income pathways, access to capital, and ownership strategies required to direct what comes next.
Economic Agency is the ability to understand your position, make informed decisions, activate resources, and build toward greater stability, ownership, and generational continuity.
HIVE PATHWAYS
HIVE Pathways is BWWA's current sponsored workforce-development experience. It helps participants strengthen how they understand, position, communicate, and apply their professional value while building a practical plan for better-aligned work and stronger earning capacity.
Nearly 50 applications have already been received, bringing experience, ambition, and tremendous possibility into the HIVE community. We are grateful for the trust applicants have placed in BWWA and excited about what is taking shape.
PARTICIPATION IS NOT PROSPERITY.
People can work, earn, operate businesses, pursue education, and contribute to communities without gaining meaningful control over assets, capital, institutions, or long-term decisions. Economic Agency Formation™ focuses on the capacities that help people convert participation into direction, ownership, stewardship, and continuity.
WHAT BWWA BUILDS
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We develop and advance the Economic Agency Formation™ framework.
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We produce articles, tools, workbooks, case studies, research, and the Biennial Economic Agency Report.
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We invest in individuals and field-building organizations through the Hoperah Fund.
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We gather builders each August through the Annual Economic Agency Conference.
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We help institutions apply the framework to workforce, youth, business, family, community, and economic-development strategies.
PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR REAL LIFE.
BWWA is building a free public resource library to help people assess their careers, understand their market position, examine their economic agency, direct money, strengthen businesses, and plan their next move.
COMING FIRST: Economic Agency Check-In • Know Your Position Career Market Toolkit • Economic Agency Snapshot
WE INVEST IN PEOPLE.
WE INVEST IN THE FIELD.
The Hoperah Fund makes catalytic investments in individuals building economic agency and in eligible organizations and initiatives advancing aligned work. Grantmaking is planned to resume in 2027 through spring and fall cycles.
FROM A STARTING PLACE TO ECONOMIC AGENCY FORMATION™.
In 2016, BWWA published Minnesota’s first report dedicated specifically to the economic status of Black women. That research helped move the organization from a business-centered identity toward a broader wealth mission. After a decade of direct practice, BWWA is returning to the questions that began the work through a twelve-year retrospective, an updated statewide study, alumni research, and Economic Agency Formation™.
FOLLOW THE FIELD.
Receive new Economic Agency Publications, free tools, Hoperah Fund opportunities, conference announcements, research invitations, alumni updates, and news from BWWA’s current sponsored initiatives.