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Circulating The HBCU Business Dollar: HBCU Money Partners With Proud Product For The HBCU Money Logo Tee

HBCU Money has partnered with Proud Product to sell its HBCU Money Logo Tee through the HBCU Grad online store, creating a powerful collaboration that promotes both HBCU pride and financial empowerment. This partnership is a strategic move that brings together two brands dedicated to uplifting Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and fostering economic growth within the Black community.

HBCU Money is known for its commitment to financial literacy, economic development, and wealth-building strategies specifically tailored for HBCU students, graduates, and supporters. By teaming up with Proud Product, a brand that celebrates HBCU culture and academic excellence through apparel, this collaboration expands the reach of HBCU Money’s mission.

HBCU Grad’s Shopify-based platform provides an accessible and well-established marketplace for HBCU-themed merchandise, making it easier for supporters to purchase the HBCU Money Logo Tee. This partnership allows HBCU Money to leverage HBCU Grad’s e-commerce expertise and existing customer base while reinforcing a shared vision of empowering HBCU communities.

The HBCU Money Logo Tee, available in heather gray, is more than just a t-shirt—it represents a movement focused on financial awareness and economic independence. By purchasing this shirt through Proud Product, buyers are not only expressing their school spirit but also supporting two HBCU-owned brands that prioritize education, financial stability, and generational wealth.

This collaboration is an example of how HBCU-focused businesses can work together to amplify their impact. By joining forces, HBCU Money and Proud Product are strengthening the culture, supporting Black entrepreneurship, and promoting a message of financial empowerment—one t-shirt at a time.

HBCU Money™ Turns 12 Years Old

By William A. Foster, IV

“History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning.” – Carter G. Woodson, The Mis-education of the Negro

Last year, I said this was a marathon and not a sprint. However, at this moment a year later it does feel like we are picking up speed. Over the years there have been setbacks and bumps and ascending moments. Moments where I believed we were set to takeoff and moments where it felt like this was going to crash. It is truly amazing that 12 years in throughout everything, HBCU Money is still here and it is still strong.

There is nothing that I desire more than to see it expand, to see it be part of the fabric of representing the information of the HBCU nation and community. That we maybe empowered to shape our own narrative and that African America one days truly sees the value in our own institutions as others do. My goal is and continues to be that HBCU Money be part of the fabric of an ecosystem of HBCU Alumni Owned media that shows just how powerful we can truly be when we take ownership into our own hands.

As HBCU Money continues its path along with our sister blog HBCU Politics and more waiting in the weekends it will soon see the long transformation from caterpillar to butterfly – with a sting like a bee.

Keep your eyes on the horizon and know that the sunrise of our day is still upon us.