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.

GENESIS 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 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.

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.

GENESIS 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.

Genesis Block is the Hub for Entrepreneurship in southeastern North Carolina. We build inclusive entrepreneurial communities inspiring innovators and entrepreneurs to take their venture to the next level. Genesis Block is the Hub for Entrepreneurship in southeastern North Carolina. We build inclusive entrepreneurial communities inspiring innovators and entrepreneurs to take their venture to the next level.

Genesis Block is the Hub for Entrepreneurship in southeastern North Carolina. We build inclusive entrepreneurial communities inspiring innovators and entrepreneurs to take their venture to the next level.

Building small businesses to build stronger communities

Meet
The Founders

Girard Newkirk is a technology entrepreneur Founder and CEO of KWHCoin and Genesis Block..

Girard is a native of Pender County and moved back to the Wilmington area by way of San Jose, California in November of 2018 with a mission to bring technology and entrepreneurship to his native community.

In 2019, KWHCoin won the Coastal Entrepreneur Awards Emerging Company for the company’s work on combining renewable energy and technology. He serves on the boards of the Cape Fear Economic Development Committee, Cape Fear Collective, and Cape Fear Community College Information Technology Committee.

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What Our

Members Say.

“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.”
Patrick Brien CEO of Cape Fear Collective
"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."
Tiffany Hansley Jones CEO of Jones Sunset Sauce
Tiffany Hansley Jones CEO of Jones Sunset Sauce
" 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."
Greg Terlecky Accomplished Physicist and Master Data Scientist

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