Genesis Block - Business Development Service Center

Wits Begin Incubator

The Wits Begin Incubator works great for entrepreneurs who need to put their business model to test. You will join a community of likeminded business owners, cultivate a self-designed action plan for your business, and engage with resource partners that will guide you from day one.

Block Eatz

Block Eatz is a food hall incubator aimed at supporting local food entrepreneurs with marketing, entrepreneur training and a high traffic retail environment to strengthen their ventures. Block Eatz helps local and diverse owned businesses lower their start up costs and provides a more predictable foot traffic pattern with the location being at the McKeithan Center on the north campus of Cape Fear Community College.

BLOCK ACADEMY

Genesis Block Academy is designed to support early stage startups, community entrepreneurs, diverse owned businesses and local small business owners with the development of sustainable business models. Genesis Block Academy offers three curriculum based training programs; Block Basics, Jumpstart Academy and Wits Begin Incubator. The academy also offers a Digital Learning Campus that can be accessible globally.

GENESIS BRIDGE

Genesis Bridge is a supplier diversity platform providing solutions to simplify sourcing, supply chain management and sustainability reporting. The aim is to streamline the procurement process for large organizations and give diverse owned businesses access to greater transaction opportunities.

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Block Report: MED Week Edition 2023

October 11, 2023 No Comments

The Block Report is here! In preparation for our Converting Conversations to Contracts event this Saturday, take a sneak peek at this year’s impressive lineup of speakers, hear from our sponsors, and explore the vendors and booths of diverse-owned businesses that will be present. Join us as we bring together some of the largest businesses and organizations in the region with diverse-owned businesses, creating opportunities for contracting and promoting diversity in the supply chain.

“CFC and Genesis Block have a lot of mission alignment. Both organizations are trying to build a movement at the intersection of innovation, equity, and the lived experience. Partnering with Genesis Block allowed us to join an ecosystem we believed in that is led by entrepreneurs like Girard and Tracey who we could count on and who would make us better stewards of our work. We're excited to work alongside other Genesis Block members and benefiting from their passion and energy.”

"Genesis Block is the place where ”potential meets opportunity”. The opportunity to learn new skills, perfect current skills and gain support as it relates to creating and building your business ”one block at a time” is there. Genesis Block is the place to be to meet all of your business needs."

" I think that Genesis Block is bringing together the brightest and most savvy entrepreneurs and thinkers in the region and I want to be a part of that."