Chicago City Wire

Black, Latino, and women entrepreneurs who would want to scale up their management and business skills should visit Entrenuity.

Entrenuity can arm youth and adult entrepreneurs with the right skill and knowledge to run their own successful businesses, founder L. Brian Jenkins said.

It has been providing “classes, business plan development and capital investment to entrepreneurs with a focus on Black, Latino, and women business owners,” the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

“It has never, never been about money for me,” Jenkins said.

He previously worked at Lawndale Christian Development Corp., a nonprofit that trained and educated youth to establish and operate their own businesses.

Jenkins also has a master’s degree in theology from Wheaton College and later on he knew he had a calling.

“That transition became where I really started to see the impact,” Jenkins said. “I started thinking, ‘Maybe the Lord wants to use me in this,’ even though I didn’t see it right away.”

Jenkins has recently opened a new location for his nonprofit that provides working spaces for entrepreneurs and small businesses, Mox.E, and his coffee shop, Overflow Coffee, at 1449 S. Michigan Ave.

The Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce applauds Entrenuity, saying such businesses “are a critical part of Chicago’s future and our economic recovery.”