FedEx | Empowering Entrepreneurs

Advancing women and minority-owned small businesses and entrepreneurs around the world.

Small to mid-sized businesses power their local economies and can be powerful job creators, making up 60-80 percent of net new jobs in the U.S. annually. FedEx is committed to giving entrepreneurs everywhere the tools they need to succeed.

Women and minorities own over 50% of small business, but only earn 30% of revenues.* We want to change this by providing the training, mentoring, networking and access to capital needed to succeed.

FedEx was founded by an entrepreneur who created a new industry. That’s why we believe in the people who are willing to dream, take risks, persevere and change the world for the better.

Learn more here.

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Content from this campaign

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

FedEx Business Spotlight: LipRevolt
LipRevolt is a cosmetic brand that caters to individuals who identify as women or gender nonconforming, especially women of color. LipRevolt seeks to promote social activism and the belief that you can inspire change and look amazing while doing it.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

FedEx Business Spotlight: Dog & Whistle
"The FedEx E-Commerce Learning Lab experience was very eye opening. I was able to learn about the customer experience and what works best for my customers logistically."

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

FedEx E-Commerce Learning Lab
The FedEx E-Commerce Learning Lab, developed in collaboration with Accion Opportunity Fund was launched in 2021. The program provides intensive hands-on learning to a cohort of mostly female and minority small business owners across the U.S.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

FedEx Business Spotlight: B100 Architects
B100 Architects is an award winning creative, sustainable design studio focusing on delivering efficient and healthy spaces for people and the planet.

Diversity & Inclusion

FedEx Business Spotlight: Girls Chronically Rock!
Keisha Greaves started her business – “Girls Chronically Rock” – in 2017 selling graphic t-shirts and enrolled in Babson College’s Black Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership (BWEL) program to expand her business knowledge and network.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

FedEx: Expanding Entrepreneurship From Local to Global
FedEx supports three Babson College programs for women entrepreneurs: WIN (Women Innovating Now) Growth Lab, BWEL (Black Women Entrepreneurial Leadership), and WIN Global.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Small Business as a Driving Force for Inclusive Growth
Small businesses are a driving force for economic growth. But not every business owner has access to resources needed to be successful. Our Global Entrepreneurship work helps strengthen minority- and women-owned small businesses.

Research, Reports & Publications

FedEx Publishes 2022 Global Entrepreneurship Report
What do an El Salvadoran woman owner of an architectural firm, a Memphis man who has become the “chocolatier to the stars” and high school students creating their own business in Africa have in common?

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

FedEx Ground Names Entrepreneurs of the Year
FedEx Ground, a leader in cost-effective package ground shipping, recognized six independent businesses that provide outstanding contract transportation services as FedEx Ground Entrepreneurs of the Year.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

FedEx and United Way Mumbai Help 400 Women Restart Their Businesses
In honor of International Women’s Day, read how our FedEx Express India team, in collaboration with United Way Mumbai, is helping empower women to restart their small businesses.
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