ABOUT
ABOUT
The Freeman’s Journal is a tool that allows you
to quickly capture, organize, and catalog your business ideas in one place. It also serves as an idea development tool that walks you through the creation of a basic business plan using terminology that most people can understand. The journal is formatted in a way that encourages you to fully get your ideas down on paper in a way that you can understand, and forces you to think hard about your ideas in a business minded manner. It asks a series of questions that follow the formula of “why”, “how”, and “why you” that, if you answer fully, will render a basic business plan and automatically give you a leg up into making your
business dreams a viable reality.
MISSION
The goal behind this journal is to inspire business talent in people of all demographic groups, and find and develop that talent in order to create ways to generate and circulate capital in economically disparaged communities. The majority of the funds from the sale of journals will go toward investing in and scaling small businesses in the aforementioned communities, as oftentimes the most creative, talented, and innovative leaders reside there but go largely unnoticed and credited. The journal is a call to action for all of the potential business leaders that may or may not have a business education, due to the fact that this journal uses terminology that anybody can understand. It allows you to store your business ideas in one place and create multiple business plans without thinking about it. In addition, the Journal has a glossary of business terms that serve to educate about business, and inspire further research into business topics. I want this journal to reach the hands of those that have the talent to create great ideas, but go overlooked due to life and the many circumstances that come along with it. I seek to reach those that desire to release their genius to the world but don’t have the guidance.
BEHIND THE NAME
The name was inspired by the Freedmen’s Bureau; an organization initiated by President Abraham Lincoln after the Emancipation Proclamation was made law. The mission of this organization was to ensure that newly freed slaves were able to get the most out of their new found freedom, and ensure a fair opportunity to prosper as equal United States citizens. While the Freedmen’s Bureau had some effectiveness, their efforts were greatly stifled by the powers that be; from the federal level down to an individual level (the Red Shirts, the White League, the Ku Klux Klan, the Black Codes, etc.). Shortly after its inception and the assassination of President Lincoln, the Freedmen’s Bureau was abandoned by Congress and not renewed as a federal organization. The blatant opposition to Black advancement in America had a critical effect on it’s Black citizens that can still be seen widely today. The Freeman’s Journal seeks to pick up where the Freedmen’s Bureau left off, and give U.S. citizens a chance to put and end to generationalized disenfranchisement.