The Black Economic Council of Massachusetts (BECMA) raised a total of $73,000 from donors and pledges in Edgartown at its inaugural Giving Day fundraiser during their “Building Wealth Together: Owning the Next Decade” event on Saturday.
The event, hosted at the Dick Friedman estate, fundraised for the council’s 10-year-anniversary campaign, with a broader mission of advancing prosperity for the Massachusetts Black business community.
“Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. used to say, ‘when it’s darkest, that’s when you can see the stars’ and that’s who all the BECMA small businesses are, the stars, that give me hope for the next generation of entrepreneurs,” said U.S. Sen. Ed Markey in a press release from the council. “We have to continue to ensure that we stand up for them.”…