Wisconsin Representative Jason Fields and Kimberly Clarke’s Pete Dulcamara guest wrote this column that mentions CourMed as an African American-founded and led startup that is making waves in the health care arena across the country and globe!
September 24, 2020
For months now Pete and I have been working on closing the racial wealth gap here in Wisconsin. While there may be a number of ways to address this issue, Pete and I agree that the way we wanted to solve this problem was by implementing strategies that would revolve around entrepreneurship. Instead of focusing on the negatives we would direct our energy, time, and effort and treat this initiative as if this was a competition, hence we intuitively chose to move as if this were a “race to the top.”
After deciding that we wanted to focus on entrepreneurship we began making phone calls, attending numerous zoom meetings and searching for models that were successful in launching entrepreneurship initiatives. We felt that doing this with a focus on African American urban centers would not merely be the right thing to do, but it would be financially good for our economy. We set out to find successful models that could be expanded to or even replicated here in Wisconsin. Likewise, we were not only interested in learning what models, programs, and strategies worked, we were also very intentional about determining what didn’t work.
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