Urban Kutz Awarded $10K From Beyoncé’s BeyGOOD Foundation 

Cleveland barbershop City Kutz is celebrating after receiving $10,000 grant from the BeyGOOD Basis, Beyoncé’s nonprofit group.

Winners of the grant, distributed by way of the Cécred x BeyGOOD Fund, had been chosen based mostly on their neighborhood involvement and affect as hair care professionals. Winners had been additionally chosen based mostly on their expertise of dealing with monetary hardships as a enterprise.

These grants are designed to assist corporations entry sources that may improve their enterprise success.

“Out of hundreds of thousands of worldwide candidates, WE WERE CHOSEN,” City Kutz wrote on Instagram.

Other than the cash, the barbershop will acquire entry to enterprise growth instruments, mentorship, and sources supplied by The Nationwide Minority Provider Growth Council (NMSDC).

Information 5 Cleveland spoke with Waverly Willis, proprietor of City Kutz, one among Ohio’s largest minority-owned barbershop chains, with three places in Cleveland.

One of many nice issues about City Kutz is its well being screening choices on the places. The barber store additionally provides prostate most cancers screenings in partnership with Case Western Reserve College.

“We’ve had males in right here, their blood strain has been so excessive that we’d verify their blood strain and we’d inform them skip the hair reduce and go straight to the ER, and this has occurred on multiple event they arrive again to us and say, they didn’t even know the way I used to be strolling round,” Willis informed Information 5 Cleveland.

City Kutz was one among 37 companies that acquired at $10,000 grant. Right here’s an entire checklist of the winners.

Majestic Magnificence Salon (Tuskegee, Alabama)

4TheLoveOfHair (Altadena, California)

Artwork Magnificence Equilibrium (Hawthorne, California)

Thee Hair Life (Los Angeles, California)

Strands Of Life Hair (Los Angeles, California)

Coloured By Ernestine (Sacramento, California)

Groom Man (Washington, D.C.)

Fadeology (Tampa, Florida)

The Cultivation Lair (West Palm Seashore, Florida)

Barber Babez Barbershop (Atlanta, Georgia)

Rashad German Studios Store (Atlanta, Georgia)

Salon Denise (Faculty Park, Georgia)

Zulai Salon (Bolingbrook, Illinois)

Phenom Cuts Barber & Magnificence Salon (Chicago, Illinois)

Curlology (Lawrence, Kansas)

5ifth Studio (New Orleans, Louisiana)

Edinburgh Williams Magnificence Salon (New Orleans, Louisiana)

Shy Watters Hair Studio (Baltimore, Maryland)

Nossa Magnificence Studio (Boston, Massachusetts)

J Cutz Studio (Royal Oak, Michigan)

The BeVel Barber Lounge (Kansas Metropolis, Missouri)

Mr C’s All within the Household Barbershop (Omaha, Nebraska)

Yogi’z Plus (Nyack, New York)

Isabella’s Hair Salon & Spa (Staten Island, New York)

Lavish Notion Studios (Charlotte, North Carolina)

Groomed Gents’s Barbershop (Kinston, North Carolina)

City Kutz Barbershop (Cleveland, Ohio)

Studio 816 Hair & Beauté Bar (Dayton, Ohio)

Dean’s Magnificence Salon & Barber Store (Portland, Oregon)

Juss Vibes Hair & Magnificence Studio (Lemoyne, Pennsylvania)

Hairtique Coloration And Design (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Need Designs Hair Studio (Cypress, Texas)

Cheree Napturals (Houston, Texas)

Euphoric Essence Hair Salon (Missouri Metropolis, Texas)

Benjamin Avery Salon (San Antonio, Texas)

Rea.Dezell Salon (San Antonio, Texas)

Syncerely Stunning (Chesapeake, Virginia)

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