The Seasoned Gives Evolution Center

Tamika Dunkley • May 05, 2023

Sharing is caring: A cooperative community resource to work, dream, support and grow

The Seasoned Evolution Center, which opened on May 1st, 2021, is a first of its kind. Focusing on BIPOC and female entrepreneurs, the Seasoned Evolution Center is the hub of Seasoned Gives’ offerings of entrepreneur mentorship and literacy classes.

It also offers financially accessible co-working space, meeting rooms, event space, co-packing capacity, commercial community kitchen, and onsite childcare with the sum total effect of uplifting and empowering entrepreneurs who have historically been denied access to the benefits of entrepreneurial ownership.

The Evolution Center affords the historically privileged incubator experience to the communities who have been excluded from such opportunities. At the Seasoned Evolution Center, BIPOC and women entrepreneurs come together to formalize and grow their business, gain financial literacy and entrepreneurial skills.

The majority of Seasoned Gives entrepreneurs approach starting their business as a gateway to financial freedom, seeking a way to take control of their economic lives. Most importantly BIPOC communities need a mindset that equips them to recognize opportunity, take initiative and innovate in the presence of tribulation — essentially, to dare to dream and imagine, to dare to believe, and then to audaciously take action and create.

These fundamental moral principles can be passed down for generations fostering true historical change initiated from The Evolution Center.