Luminary’s renowned Fellowship Program provides companies the opportunity to support both women-owned and women-of-color-owned businesses with access to mentorship, business tools and capital. 

While financial support may help in the short-term, our Fellowship Program invests in small business owners for the long-term, delivering the necessary tools they need to run, maintain, manage and grow their businesses.  

A check helps these businesses for a day—investing in a Luminary membership provides for a lifetime.

Did you know...

• 42% of all U.S. businesses are women-owned

• Women start more than 1,800 net new businesses every day 

• U.S. women-owned businesses generate $2 trillion per year

• 64% of new women-owned businesses are started by women of color; 42% by Black women

• Latina women-owned businesses have grown more than 87% since 2007 with more than 400 started every single day

Now spanning more than 50 cities, 5 countries and awarded to more than 75% women-of-color owned businesses, we're creating an ecosystem of support and delivering impact supporting over 1,800 women-owned businesses with our Fellowships. 

Regardless of location, industry or size of company, each Luminary Fellowship delivers access to: 

• Ongoing education 
• Community and connection
• Business resources and tools
• Marketing support
• Strategic planning and advice
• Coaching and mentorship
• Fuel to spend through The Luminary Collective

Market misperceptions

Women entrepreneurs’ competency and market knowledge is routinely disregarded, including market opportunities they identify.

Network exclusion

Women entrepreneurs often experience limited, gender-based access to established social and business networks, creating less access to knowledgeable mentors, ongoing education and capital expansion resources.

Managing expansion while underfunded

Barriers to start-up and growth capital create new, ongoing challenges, including constraints on funding for recruitment, access to new markets and overall scalability and expansion. 

Revenue growth

Despite women owning 40% of all the businesses in the U.S., less than 2% of women-owned businesses generated more than $1 million in sales (and that percentage is even lower when you only look at women of color-owned businesses).