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Meet Jasmine Fain of ENPWR U in Southern Dallas

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Today we’d like to introduce you to Jasmine Fain.

Jasmine, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far.
It all started my freshman year of college, when I decided to leave Dallas to go to Oklahoma State University in Stillwater to guide my athletic career to become a competitive cheerleader. Within my first year of college, I re-injured my MCL and I was sitting in my room wondering what my purpose in life was now. Yahuah (God) directly asked me, “Will you hand it all back over to me, and let me guide you.” I let go of the reins and let him guide me, and the opportunities to impact came to me, and I was able to make a huge impact on my OSU community. The nonprofit world entered into my life Summer of 2017 when I began working for For Oak Cliff and Commit! Partnership.

I had volunteered for nonprofits but never knew the behind the scene of the industry. I went into the internship to grant write, and to train for my profession but ended up leading a lot of the marketing for major events, and even became business partners with one of my coworkers and became the Executive Director over his nonprofit and scholarship program. From this opportunity alone, I was able to launch my career in the nonprofit space by becoming a professional grant writer and raising roughly over $500,000 in grant work for nonprofits. This experience lead me to receiving the opportunity to become the Marketing Director of Women’s Legal Centre in Cape Town, South Africa.

Even though I have retired from grant writing and now coach nonprofits in business development, and serve as the CEO of ENPWR U, my purpose all started with saying yes to Yahuah. I thought to be an athlete was all that I would ever be in life, but I learn more and more every day that when you let go and let Yah do the work, he leads you to places you can’t dream of.

Overall, has it been relatively smooth? If not, what were some of the struggles along the way?
I would say it has been like climbing up Mount Kilimanjaro. If you know about Mount Kilimanjaro treks, then you know each elevation level has a different climate and terrains that you have to learn to adjust to. That has truly been my life. I’ve stayed on the same path that Yah has given me, but each level and each season is one I have to get used to. Some main struggles I faced early on was being so young in the nonprofit industry.

As far as the social impact startup space that my company ENPWR U lives within, I felt very welcomed, with open arms, but the nonprofit industry really made me self doubt my knowledge and purpose a lot. The industry is one that says you are the best because of how long you have been working within it, not based on the knowledge you are providing. Also, this industry can be outdated at times when it comes to technology and stagnant when moving into a progressive environment that doesn’t silence BIPOC voices when it comes to funding. I came in like a wrecking ball, and I don’t regret it. I may be young, but my gift has always been ready to disrupt systems that were not making it fair for everyone to have a bigger impact.

We’d love to hear more about your organization.
I am a nonprofit business development coach where I teach nonprofits how to create cashflow without grants, and how to become social impact companies to raise money on the same scale that Khan Academy, Google, and Airbnb did.

ENPWR U LLC. We are a social impact startup company that has built a marketplace for underrepresented communities to connect with nonprofit programs. Overall, to increase program participation for nonprofits so they can reach long term sustainability.

With both of these companies, I am most proud of all the Black nonprofit founders I have been able to connect with. Often, when we talk about frontline workers, we don’t include the nonprofits who keep communities alive not only during a crisis but every day, and rarely do we talk about the Black nonprofits, who serve as community family members because they understand on a personal level, the connections that BIPOC communities need, not what some organization give to them because that’s what they think will solve their problems. I was in those Black founder’s shoes during my Junior year of college being Executive Director of a nonprofit. I understand the frontline work that needs to be done but also having to balance your own mental health, because you are constantly taking on the emotional state of another person, and this aspect is also what makes me different.

I don’t preach stats and studies people have done about Black communities, no I preach real experiences. If you have a consultation call with me as a coach, I’m giving you all the knowledge I gained from my mistakes, and how I turned this knowledge into data through research and going out there and speaking to my community and conducting grassroots research to understand what they need to live better.

What is “success” or “successful” for you?
Success to me, is in lives changed. Monetary gain will come and the rewards of my work will come upon the timing and blessing that Yahuah sees fit in his will, but lives changed is the ultimate value.

My markers for my work is through the conversations, reviews, testimonials, and even being able to visit my nonprofit clients and see the rewards of their work. My purpose on earth is to make sure others live better during their time here. If at the end of my life, I can look back, and say I truly fulfilled that purpose, then my job was done.

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