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Welcome to the ICABA World Community, where Black professionals and entrepreneurs connect, collaborate, and grow. To ensure this community remains valuable, respectful, and impactful, we ask all members to follow these guidelines:

1. Engage with Purpose, Professionalism, and a Positive Voice

✅ Share insights, experiences, and opportunities that align with career development, business growth, wealth creation, and leadership.

✅ Maintain a professional and supportive tone in all discussions, especially when offering feedback and advice.

✅ Keep conversations relevant and meaningful—our community thrives on quality engagement.

✅ Network intentionally—introduce yourself, seek collaboration, and offer support to fellow members.

✅ Use collaborative opportunities to expand your reach, whether through business partnerships, career growth, referrals, or shared knowledge.

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✅ Post job listings, business opportunities, and resources in the appropriate spaces to support professional and entrepreneurial growth.

✅ If seeking advice or recommendations, be clear and concise to get the best responses.

✅ Promote services ethically—this is a relationship-driven network, not a sales pitch platform.

✅ Participate in ICABA’s events, workshops, and discussions—your engagement strengthens our community.

✅ Support wealth-building and leadership development initiatives that align with ICABA’s mission.

✅ Stay informed about signature events and career development opportunities—this is where transformation happens!

✅ No hate speech, discrimination, or harassment—we celebrate diversity and inclusion.

✅ No spam, scams, or solicitation—contribute value, not noise.

✅ No misinformation or unethical business practices—trust is the foundation of our network.

By being part of the ICABA World Community, you’re joining a global movement of professionals and entrepreneurs who are committed to success, leadership, and prosperity. Let’s build, grow, and thrive together! 

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</p><ul class='marker-wrapper'><li class='adject-marker' style=""><p style=""><span style="font-size: 18px;line-height: 27px;"><strong>Build Powerful Strategic Relationships: </strong></span><span style="font-size: 18px;line-height: 27px;">Connect with accomplished entrepreneurs, business development experts, investors, and resource providers who can open doors to new clients, partnerships, markets, and opportunities.

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				</div><p style=""></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size: 32px;line-height: 48px;">ICABA Network Viewed as ‘Game Changer’ for Black-owned Businesses</span></p><a href="https://www.ourweekly.com/2026/08/26/icaba-network-viewed-as-game-changer-for-black-owned-businesses/" target="_blank">
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								<p style="font-weight: 400;font-size: 12px;line-height: 15px;color: var(--textLight);opacity: 0.8;margin-bottom: 0;">As America continues to commemorate Black-owned business month in August, BlackProfessionals Month, coming up in October, is a global movement that showcasesBlack excellence while advancing leaders…</p>
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					<p style=""></p><p style="">As America continues to commemorate Black-owned business month in August, Black Professionals Month, coming up in October, is a global movement that showcases Black excellence while advancing leadership, collaboration, visibility, and wealth creation as Black people of the diaspora support and do business with one another.
</p><p style="">“We will deal with the blowback of anti-DEI by looking at how we come together,” says Jerome `Hutchinson Jr., founder and chief servant officer of ICABA World Network, the creator of Black Professionals Month. “Self-determination was always an undercurrent of my parents’ leadership. And that definitely has been passed on to me. You don’t go looking for somebody to do for you when you can do for yourself.”
</p><p style="margin-bottom:0;">He continues, “Black Professionals Month highlights the achievements and contributions of Black professionals while activating meaningful opportunities for connection, collaboration, and growth....</p><p style=""></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://www.ourweekly.com/2026/08/26/icaba-network-viewed-as-game-changer-for-black-owned-businesses/" target="_blank" style="font-size:18px;line-height:27px;">READ MORE </a></p>

ICABA Network Viewed as ‘Game Changer’ for Black-owned Businesses

As America continues to commemorate Black-owned business month in August, BlackProfessionals Month, coming up in October, is a global movement that showcasesBlack excellence while advancing leaders…

As America continues to commemorate Black-owned business month in August, Black Professionals Month, coming up in October, is a global movement that showcases Black excellence while advancing leadership, collaboration, visibility, and wealth creation as Black people of the diaspora support and do business with one another.


“We will deal with the blowback of anti-DEI by looking at how we come together,” says Jerome `Hutchinson Jr., founder and chief servant officer of ICABA World Network, the creator of Black Professionals Month. “Self-determination was always an undercurrent of my parents’ leadership. And that definitely has been passed on to me. You don’t go looking for somebody to do for you when you can do for yourself.”


He continues, “Black Professionals Month highlights the achievements and contributions of Black professionals while activating meaningful opportunities for connection, collaboration, and growth....

<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size: 32px;line-height: 48px;">Deloitte Paying $21.5 Million to Settle Government Probe Over DEI</span>
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								<p style="font-weight: 400;font-size: 12px;line-height: 15px;color: var(--textLight);opacity: 0.8;margin-bottom: 0;">Accounting firm Deloitte will pay $21.5 million to settle a U.S. Department of Justice probe over diversity, equity and inclusion practices, which</p>
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					<p style="margin-bottom:0;">Accounting firm Deloitte will pay $21.5 million to settle a U.S. Department of Justice probe over diversity, equity and inclusion practices, which President Donald Trump’s administration has cracked down on during his second term in office.</p><p style=""></p><p style="">The settlement marks a resolution reached through the DOJ’s unit formed last year called the “Civil Rights Fraud Initiative” to crack down ⁠on DEI policies using a civil anti-fraud law.</p><p style=""></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2026/08/27/339800.htm" target="_blank" style="">READ MORE </a></p>

Deloitte Paying $21.5 Million to Settle Government Probe Over DEI

Accounting firm Deloitte will pay $21.5 million to settle a U.S. Department of Justice probe over diversity, equity and inclusion practices, which

Accounting firm Deloitte will pay $21.5 million to settle a U.S. Department of Justice probe over diversity, equity and inclusion practices, which President Donald Trump’s administration has cracked down on during his second term in office.

The settlement marks a resolution reached through the DOJ’s unit formed last year called the “Civil Rights Fraud Initiative” to crack down ⁠on DEI policies using a civil anti-fraud law.

<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size: 32px;line-height: 48px;">Pro-DEI Companies Are Doing Just Fine According To New Study</span></p><a href="https://www.blackenterprise.com/pro-dei-companies-are-thriving-according-to-new-study/" target="_blank">
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								<p style="font-weight: 400;font-size: 12px;line-height: 15px;color: var(--textLight);opacity: 0.8;margin-bottom: 0;">New research finds S&P 500 companies that maintained DEI policies performed as well as — and sometimes better than — peers that pulled back.</p>
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					<p style=""></p><p style="">A study conducted by Jacob Grumbach, an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy, found that S&amp;P 500 companies that maintained their DEI commitments after President Donald Trump passed anti-DEI executive orders last year performed just as well financially as companies that scaled back their programs. In the days immediately following the orders, companies that retained their DEI policies actually outperformed those that did not, according to the analysis,<a href="undefined" target="_blank">The Guardian</a>reports.</p><p style=""></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://www.blackenterprise.com/pro-dei-companies-are-thriving-according-to-new-study/" target="_blank" style="">READ MORE </a></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p>

Pro-DEI Companies Are Doing Just Fine According To New Study

New research finds S&P 500 companies that maintained DEI policies performed as well as — and sometimes better than — peers that pulled back.

A study conducted by Jacob Grumbach, an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy, found that S&P 500 companies that maintained their DEI commitments after President Donald Trump passed anti-DEI executive orders last year performed just as well financially as companies that scaled back their programs. In the days immediately following the orders, companies that retained their DEI policies actually outperformed those that did not, according to the analysis,

<p style="margin-bottom:0;"></p><p style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-size: 32px;line-height: 48px;">9 Habits of People Who </span></p><p style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-size: 32px;line-height: 48px;">Build Extraordinary Relationships</span></p><p style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-size: 32px;line-height: 48px;"></span></p><div id="image_67d060e611147f001224e828_1787404676797_0" class='element-image' style="display:flex;justify-content:center;">
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				</div><p style=""></p><p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-size: 18px;line-height: 27px;">Professional success is important to everyone, but still, success in business and in life means different things to different people–</span><a href="undefined" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 18px;line-height: 27px;">as well it should</span></a><span style="font-size: 18px;line-height: 27px;">. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-size: 18px;line-height: 27px;"></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-size: 18px;line-height: 27px;">But one fact is universal: Real success, the kind that exists on multiple levels, is impossible without building great relationships. Real success is impossible unless you treat other people with kindness, regard, and respect.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-size: 18px;line-height: 27px;"></span></p><p style=""><span style="font-size: 18px;line-height: 27px;">After all, you can be a rich jerk — but you will also be a lonely jerk.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-size: 18px;line-height: 27px;">That’s why people who build extraordinary business relationships:</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0;"></p><p style=""><span style="font-size: 32px;line-height: 48px;"><strong>1. Take the hit.</strong></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-size: 18px;line-height: 27px;">A customer gets mad. A vendor complains about poor service. A mutual friend feels slighted.</span></p><p style=""><span style="font-size: 18px;line-height: 27px;"></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-size: 18px;line-height: 27px;">Sometimes, whatever the issue and regardless of who is actually at fault, some people step in and take the hit. They’re willing to accept the criticism or abuse because they know they can handle it — and they know that maybe, just maybe, the other person can’t.</span></p><p style=""><span style="font-size: 18px;line-height: 27px;"></span></p><p style=""><span style="font-size: 18px;line-height: 27px;">Few acts are more selfless than taking the undeserved hit. And few acts cement a relationship better........</span></p><p style=""></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;line-height: 27px;"></span><a href="https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/9-habits-of-people-who-build-extraordinary-relationships.html" target="_blank" style="">READ MORE </a></p>

Professional success is important to everyone, but still, success in business and in life means different things to different people–

But one fact is universal: Real success, the kind that exists on multiple levels, is impossible without building great relationships. Real success is impossible unless you treat other people with kindness, regard, and respect.

After all, you can be a rich jerk — but you will also be a lonely jerk.

That’s why people who build extraordinary business relationships:

A customer gets mad. A vendor complains about poor service. A mutual friend feels slighted.

Sometimes, whatever the issue and regardless of who is actually at fault, some people step in and take the hit. They’re willing to accept the criticism or abuse because they know they can handle it — and they know that maybe, just maybe, the other person can’t.

Few acts are more selfless than taking the undeserved hit. And few acts cement a relationship better........

<p style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-size: 32px;line-height: 48px;">ICABA Member Todd Billings Shares Inspirational Insights</span></p><div id="image_67d060e611147f001224e828_1787400651218_0" class='element-image' style="display:flex;justify-content:center;">
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ICABA Member Todd Billings Shares Inspirational Insights

<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size: 32px;line-height: 48px;">Follow the Money, Market by Market</span></p><a href="https://www.blackexecutivebrief.com/follow-the-money-market-by-market/?ref=presents-the-black-executive-brief-newsletter" target="_blank">
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								<p style="font-weight: 400;font-size: 12px;line-height: 15px;color: var(--textLight);opacity: 0.8;margin-bottom: 0;">A single $250,000 check in 1973 became the seed capital for a movement that now moves half a billion dollars in a single election cycle. Trace where the equivalent capital has gone for Black business, on every continent, and the ledger runs empty. (Part 2 of 6)</p>
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					<p style=""></p><p style="margin-bottom:0;">A single $250,000 check in 1973 became the seed capital for a movement that now moves half a billion dollars in a single election cycle. Trace where the equivalent capital has gone for Black business, on every continent, and the ledger runs empty. (Part 2 of 6)</p><p style="margin-bottom:0;"></p><p style=""><span style="font-size: 32px;line-height: 48px;">The Founding Check, and What It Became</span></p><p style="">Heritage Foundation was not built by a movement.</p><blockquote><p>That was the opening move in a fifty-year game, and the players kept compounding.</p></blockquote><blockquote><p></p></blockquote><p style="">It was built by two men and one check.</p><p style="">Ed Feulner and Paul Weyrich founded Heritage in 1973, and Joseph Coors, of the Colorado brewing family, provided a $250,000 grant that got the organization off the ground. Richard Mellon Scaife, heir to the Mellon industrial, oil, aluminum, and banking fortune, gave Heritage $420,000 in 1976 alone, which was 42% of the organization&#39;s entire million-dollar budget that year.</p><p style="margin-bottom:0;"></p><p style=""><span style="font-size: 32px;line-height: 48px;">Where the Equivalent Pipeline Should Exist for Black Business, and Does Not</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0;">Now hold that fifty-year architecture up against every market where Black business capital actually operates.</p><p style=""></p><p style="margin-bottom:0;">In the United States, the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, the institution most often called America&#39;s Black think tank, reported $11.5 million in total assets and $3.4 million in revenue for fiscal year 2024.</p><p style=""></p><p style="margin-bottom:0;">That is roughly 1% of Heritage&#39;s asset base and under 3% of its annual revenue in the same reporting period.</p><p style=""></p><p style="">There has been no Bradley-style single transaction, no Scaife-style decade-early positioning, no Olin-style fifty-year beachhead strategy, executed by Black capital, at any scale, anywhere in this country.</p><p style="">The Joint Center&#39;s largest identifiable Black-originated gift is $500,000 from the TD Jakes Foundation, smaller than individual grants from Hewlett and Robert Wood Johnson recorded in the same donor ledger.</p><p style="">In Brazil, Afro-Brazilians represent 56.8% of the population and 71.3% of the population living below the poverty line, with poverty among Black and mixed-race women running at 30.4% against 15.1% for white women.</p><p style="margin-bottom:0;">The policy responses that exist in Brazil — land titling for Quilombola communities, university admissions quotas — arrived through government mandate, not through an independently capitalized Afro-Brazilian institution operating with anything resembling CFR&#39;s corporate membership structure or Heritage&#39;s donor network.</p><p style=""></p><p style="margin-bottom:0;">In the United Kingdom, the Black Policy Institute has produced genuine racial-equity policy research since its founding in 2020.</p><p style=""></p><p style="">No public filing discloses its operating budget, and nothing in the public record suggests a donor structure remotely approaching Bradley&#39;s near-billion-dollar base or CFR&#39;s $99 million in annual revenue.
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A single $250,000 check in 1973 became the seed capital for a movement that now moves half a billion dollars in a single election cycle. Trace where the equivalent capital has gone for Black business, on every continent, and the ledger runs empty. (Part 2 of 6)

Follow the Money, Market by Market

Heritage Foundation was not built by a movement.

That was the opening move in a fifty-year game, and the players kept compounding.

Ed Feulner and Paul Weyrich founded Heritage in 1973, and Joseph Coors, of the Colorado brewing family, provided a $250,000 grant that got the organization off the ground. Richard Mellon Scaife, heir to the Mellon industrial, oil, aluminum, and banking fortune, gave Heritage $420,000 in 1976 alone, which was 42% of the organization's entire million-dollar budget that year.

Where the Equivalent Pipeline Should Exist for Black Business, and Does Not

Now hold that fifty-year architecture up against every market where Black business capital actually operates.

In the United States, the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, the institution most often called America's Black think tank, reported $11.5 million in total assets and $3.4 million in revenue for fiscal year 2024.

That is roughly 1% of Heritage's asset base and under 3% of its annual revenue in the same reporting period.

There has been no Bradley-style single transaction, no Scaife-style decade-early positioning, no Olin-style fifty-year beachhead strategy, executed by Black capital, at any scale, anywhere in this country.

The Joint Center's largest identifiable Black-originated gift is $500,000 from the TD Jakes Foundation, smaller than individual grants from Hewlett and Robert Wood Johnson recorded in the same donor ledger.

In Brazil, Afro-Brazilians represent 56.8% of the population and 71.3% of the population living below the poverty line, with poverty among Black and mixed-race women running at 30.4% against 15.1% for white women.

The policy responses that exist in Brazil — land titling for Quilombola communities, university admissions quotas — arrived through government mandate, not through an independently capitalized Afro-Brazilian institution operating with anything resembling CFR's corporate membership structure or Heritage's donor network.

In the United Kingdom, the Black Policy Institute has produced genuine racial-equity policy research since its founding in 2020.

No public filing discloses its operating budget, and nothing in the public record suggests a donor structure remotely approaching Bradley's near-billion-dollar base or CFR's $99 million in annual revenue.


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