By Iain Carlos Minneapolis/St.Paul Business Journal Aug 13, 2020 The Business Journal checked in on entrepreneurs of color, including...

By Nicole Norfleet The Star Tribune Sept 29, 2020 NEON client Butters By Jay is at MOA! They're part of the Community Commons pop-up on...

By Aaliyah Gibson and Dan Myers The Daily Meal Oct 7, 2020 NEON client Wendy's House of SOUL has a lot more on their menu than just...

By Shayne Wells Fox 9 News Sept 22, 2020 Fox 9 stopped by Wendy's House of SOUL's new Harrison Neighborhood restaurant (1825 Glenwood...

By Reg Chapman WCCO 4 News Sept 16, 2020

By Neal St. Anthony Star Tribune Aug 16, 2020 "Many shops have shuttered indefinitely amid the one-two punch of COVID-19 and riot...

By Liv Martin Star Tribune Aug 7, 2020 In light of the pandemic, they've shifted their focus from catering to their frozen empanadas,...

By Liv Martin Minnesota Monthly Jul 29, 2020 ​ Big congrats to NEON clients The Zen Bin, NYUM, and Keiko's Kitchen for the wonderful...

By Melissa Townsend MPR News Jul 20, 2020 "North Minneapolis was hit hard in the uprising following the police killing of George Floyd...

By Carrigan Miller Jul 6, 2020 "On June 1, Northside Economic Opportunity Network (NEON), an NWAF grantee, posted a statement of...

By Nicole Norfleet Star Tribune Jun 28, 2020 ​ "Black-owned businesses' consumer influx brings revenue - and challenges, for business...

By Carrigan Miller Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal Jun 18, 2020 "The people leading economic rebuilding efforts are working to...

In 2011, Nausheena Hussain entered the nonprofit world as a newly minted grant writer. She observed in the Muslim community that there...

Typically, it’s a shared love of food that bring food business partners together, but for Trio Plant Based, that’s only the beginning....

We are excited to announce that Kenneth Caldwell will be exclusively featured during the FLOW Northside Art Crawl in NEON Spaces on...

When Juan Lozano was a kid, he worked as a migrant worker with the rest of his family, traveling from Texas to Washington to work in...

Ineye Bobmanuel embarked on his entrepreneurial journey with hopes to leverage his skills and talents through real estate opportunities...

Jaequan and Jerome Faulkner came to NEON to learn more about how to start a business from beginning to end - as Jaequan leads the...

When a basketball player suffers a serious injury, a seriously bleak period can follow. For Kali Terry, the story was much the same. An...

Three years ago, Abdi Ahmed started Advantage Home Health with a passion to serve people with disabilities while providing quality...