IBWIG

04/30/2026

09/27/2025

03/08/2025

Late post from Feb 27 Event: Pictures from the Ignite Business Women Investment Group (IBWIG) Community networking event on wealth building and cooperatives. Thanks to Shared Capital Cooperative, Mark Flick, and Nexus Community Partners, Nonkululeko Shongwe for the valuable information shared with the audience.

01/02/2025

Happy New Year! Cheers to a fresh start in 2025! We are excited for another year of learning about wealth building , and networking Events! Watch out for details!

02/22/2024

More of our story! Kudos Bosses! 👏

Lack of access to proper retail space was crippling these immigrant businesswomen in the Twin Cities. In forming a commercial real estate cooperative, they’re going far by going together.

12/27/2023

Women-Empowered! Kudos to Ignite Business Women Investment Group. 💪💪💪

The purchase of the aging Shingle Creek Mall was inspired by the growth of businesses run by African immigrants in the western Twin Cities suburbs. Its owners want it to be a model of economic inclusion and innovation.

12/08/2023

Congrats to IBWIG for partnering with ACER to purchase the Shingle Creek Mall, Brooklyn Center 👏

Brooklyn Center’s Shingle Creek Center is under new ownership. The strip mall, across the street from the Hennepin County Regional Center, now belongs to African Career Education & Resources Inc. (ACER) and the Ignite Business Women Investment Group.

11/16/2023

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=7206923552671873&id=100000628982748&mibextid=CDWPTG

Rochdale Capital recently closed a $499,600 loan participation with Shared Capital Cooperative and Sunrise Banks to finance the purchase of two commercial shopping centers located in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, to convert to cooperative ownership.

Two Black women-led organizations, Ignite Business Women Investment Group and the African Career, Education and Resource, Inc. (ACER) will own and operate the property and create an affordable tenant-owned cooperative for 27 black, immigrant small businesswomen to serve the local community.

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