FroFessionals.com: The Business & The Mission
The BUSINESS:
FroFessionals.com is a subscription-based, business listing platform that connects Black Professionals, Entrepreneurs and Artists with their target audiences. Your complimentary subscription provides your business with Local, National and International Exposure to people looking to Buy Black. Your paid subscription supports events and programs that support wealth building activities, and fund mental health advocacy in your community.
List Your Business Now! And be found on Frofessionals.com.
THE MISSION:
Frofessionals is a nonprofit organization with the mission to increase economic empowerment for Black people, and mental health advocacy for historically marginalized communities. We promote patronage, collaboration and growth of Black owned businesses, Professionals and Artists through our listing platform and community events. We then reinvest fees for services to support initiatives and programs that advocate for people with mental health challenges.
The Platform
FroFessionals.com offers subscriptions to fit every budget. Paid subscribers enjoy discounted advertising fees and a free vendor space at our Annual Crown Act Festivals and other cultural and entrepreneurial events. Subscription and advertising fees are reinvested locally into the Subscriber’s community according to their zipcode to support mental health advocacy.
Our Plan
FroFessionals aims to protect the 6th Amendment right to a fair trial for people with mental health disorders, by assuring that their rights and accommodations are upheld during the legal process. Currently, justice for people with mental illness is chronically delayed, or denied in both the criminal and civil courts due to their inability to withstand the pressures and duration of the legal process. Frofessionals aims to provide mental health advocates to support them through out their legal process, to include the trial, to ensure that they are able to access the accommodations necessary to enhance their capacity to withstand trial.
The Frofessionals Annual Crown Act Festivals are a Family Friendly, Cultural Explosion of Live Music, Art, Dance, Black Owned Business Vendors, Soul Food, Wealth Building Workshops and an Extravagant Natural Hair Show in honor of the CROWN ACT. The festival has received international attention 2 years in a row and continues to grow annually by leaps and bounds.
Social Action Plays
Our plays address the marginalization of Black and Brown people in the legal system, and the effects on their mental, physical, social and financial health.
The Founder
April Phillips is a social worker and trauma therapist, born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas and raised in South Central Los Angeles. She is the daughter of a Panamanian Mother with West Indian Roots, and an African American Vietnam Veteran. She both witnessed and experienced personally the detrimental effects that untreated mental illness and generational poverty can have on families and the community at large, so she decided to become a change maker. Educated by 2 HBCU’s, she runs a private counseling practice in North Austin where she has lived for 18 years. As a mental health advocate, she educates nationally and internationally about mental health care as a basic human right and promotes financial wellness as a crucial part of holistic health.
The Founder recognizes through both personal and professional experience, that poverty and mental health challenges, makes one vulnerable. She believes that mental wellness, and increasing a person’s earning potential through entrepreneurship, are the keys to breaking the barrier of generational poverty and overuse of the criminal justice system.
