Empowering Underserved Businesses to Innovate, Scale, and Lead

The Couvent Collective is a Public Benefit Corporation and social enterprise advancing financial literacy, business readiness, and economic mobility. Inspired by the legacy of Marie Couvent, we focus on closing opportunity gaps through culturally responsive financial education and practical support.

Our work serves individuals from early learning through professional careers, with a strong emphasis on women, veterans, re-entry individuals, and underserved entrepreneurs. Through standards-aligned financial literacy programs, business education, and access to tools and resources, we help people build financial confidence, start and grow businesses, and create long-term economic stability.

education and resources to help your small business

Financial literacy is often taught by age, but real financial decisions are shaped by economic exposure - the moments in life when money, opportunity, and risk overlap.

Financial Power for Life™ is a proprietary financial literacy framework and multi-tier delivery system designed to build financial capability across life stages.

That’s why Financial Power for Life™ is organized around a lifecycle framework that scales from students learning their first money skills to professionals managing complex wealth decisions.

Building Generational Wealth Through Education

Financial Power For Life™

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EVANS CUTCHMORE

Evans Cutchmore is the strategic authority and publishing arm within our ecosystem. Through narrative development, brand architecture, and independent publishing strategy, Evans Cutchmore helps founders and experts translate their expertise into scalable intellectual property - from books to platforms to long-term brand equity.

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the promise of protection

The Industrial Canal has run through the heart of New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward for over a century. The Army Corps of Engineers is currently proposing a $4.7 billion lock replacement project that would bring 14 years of construction to the neighborhood beginning in 2033.

The project has a benefit-cost ratio of 1.03. 97% of the vessels that transit the lock do not stop in New Orleans. Community organizations have been raising questions about the project for 30 years.

The Promise of Protection is a documentary currently in production examining the history of the Industrial Canal, its impact on the Lower Ninth Ward across sixty years, and the questions surrounding the federal government's current proposal.

Produced and Directed by Kim M. Braud

1:1 coaching

Get personalized guidance and expert support through 1:1 coaching tailored to your business needs and goals

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BUSINESS LOANS

The Couvent Collective has partnered with Lightbox to provide mission-aligned loan opportunities that empower underserved entrepreneurs and foster community growth.

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GRANT SUBSCRIPTION

Monthly subscription to curated list of grants to grow your small business

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ANGEL INVESTMENTS

The Couvent Collective makes confidential investments in underserved entrepreneurs. We don't announce our investments, and we don't seek recognition, we simply believe in the power of backing the right people at the right time.
SMALL BUSINESS GRANTS

We put our own capital to work for underserved entrepreneurs through direct grant awards. This is what it means to be a Public Benefit Corporation, not just in name, but in action.
PROCUREMENT AND CONTRACT READINESS

Winning contracts shouldn't be a mystery. The Couvent Collective equips underserved entrepreneurs with the knowledge and readiness to access government and corporate procurement opportunities, and claim their seat at the table.