By Deshuna Spencer

“It wasn’t until two years later when I got my next check through the Halcyon incubator program, which offers a stipend, free housing, and other programming to help social ventures like mine succeed. When I started at Halcyon, I literally only had $63 left in my company’s bank account. It was a lifeline for my business at that time. That’s when I began my “by any means necessary” approach and started looking at other ways to acquire funding.” 

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