FedEx | Global Entrepreneurship

Advancing women and minority-owned small businesses and entrepreneurs around the world.

Small to mid-sized businesses power their local economies and can be powerful job creators, making up 60-80 percent of net new jobs in the U.S. annually. FedEx is committed to giving entrepreneurs everywhere the tools they need to succeed.

Women and minorities own over 50% of small business, but only earn 30% of revenues.* We want to change this by providing the training, mentoring, networking and access to capital needed to succeed.

FedEx was founded by an entrepreneur who created a new industry. That’s why we believe in the people who are willing to dream, take risks, persevere and change the world for the better.

Learn more here.

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Content from this campaign

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

FedEx Distributes $1 Million #SupportSmall Grants to Entrepreneurs
Two-hundred business owners were chosen out of almost 50,0000 applications to receive a $5,000 check as well as a $500 credit for FedEx Office® print and business services to help support their small business during the COVID-19 global pandemic.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Acción Venture Lab in Brazil Supports Start-Ups With Help From FedEx
In Brazil, FedEx is helping support financial technology start-ups through the Acción Venture Lab. This fintech ecosystem provides small businesses across the country access to affordable and convenient financial capital as well as consulting and technical advice.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

FedEx Express Backs Student-Run Startup, Echooo
FedEx Express has awarded its signature FedEx Access Award to student-run company Echooo, from Belgium at the JA Europe Company of the Year Competition, hosted as a virtual event for the first time on 22nd-24th July 2020.

Diversity & Inclusion

K-Tec Systems CEO Cathy Koch “Believed She Could, and So She Did”—with Help from wegg® and FedEx
“Every morning,” K-Tec Systems CEO Cathy Koch says, “I put on a bracelet that says: ‘She Believed She Could, and So She Did.’ I believe a woman must believe ‘she can’ from the day she opens her business.”

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

FedEx Express Rewards Young Entrepreneurs Ready to Access New Markets
FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp (NYSE: FDX), awarded its signature FedEx Access Award to student-run company Entella, from Turkey, at the JA Europe Company of the Year Competition, Lille, France on 5 July 2019.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Trash to Treasure: Hawaii Company Uses Ocean Waste to Create Jewelry
Three years ago Kat Crabill took a drive that would forever change her life. She visited Kamilo Beach on the southeast coast of the island of Hawai’i, an area that collects a huge amount of trash due to the movement of currents. It was there, while watching plastic waste wash ashore, that Crabill thought about repurposing the large plastic pieces and nurdles, small nuggets of plastic, into true gems.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Teen Entrepreneurs Make Their Pitch for America’s Next Top Business Model
A start-up company may be well on its way to even more success after winning $75,000 in the FedEx Junior Business Challenge. Five student teams around the country competed against each other to see who had the best original business idea.

Innovation & Technology

Powering Today’s Mobile Economy
Raj Subramaniam, Chief Marketing Officer and Executive Vice President at FedEx Corporation, anticipates mobility as an agent of remarkable opportunity for connecting and empowering people across the planet.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Connecting Homeless Artists to the Global Marketplace
Liz Powers, FedEx Small Business Grant Contest Winner, explains connecting homeless artists to the global marketplace.

Innovation & Technology

Alaffia: Beyond Fair Trade
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