Western New York Small Business Owner Molly Bakewell Chamberlin Selected as Entrepreneur Mentor for EforAll Buffalo Accelerator Program

August 16, 2022 – Embassy Global, LLC (www.embassyglobalpr.com), a 100% woman-owned and WBE-certified worldwide strategic growth marketing, PR, business development, and management consulting firm for the B2B high-tech components manufacturing industry, today announced that its company founder and president, Ms. Molly Bakewell Chamberlin, has been selected to serve as an Entrepreneur Mentor for the Entrepreneurship for All (EforAll) Buffalo Accelerator Program.

Founded in 2010, EforAll is a U.S.-based, nationally renowned non-profit which seeks to accelerate economic growth and social impact in local communities through inclusive entrepreneurship. As a core component of such efforts, EforAll offers a twice-annual dedicated start-up Accelerator Program within the local communities it serves. With a chosen group of incubator startup mentees from among dozens of applicants, the Program places special emphases on the importance of diversity and inclusion, market research, collaboration, and business-to-business mentoring. Selected start-up candidates benefit from a unique mix of ongoing immersive business skills training, active coaching and mentorship, along with access to a highly engaged, supportive, and extensive professional network.

The local EforAll Buffalo Program supports the annual development and launches of approximately 30 new area start-ups. The Program operates under the overall direction of Executive Director Juweria Dahir, a Black Muslim immigrant, and Program Manager Sonya Tareke, a woman of color. The EforAll Buffalo leadership team is also largely reflective of the demographic of new entrepreneurs served by the Program, 74% of whom are women, 58% of whom are Black or Indigenous of people of color, and 46% of whom are immigrants, according to Ms. Tareke.

Chosen EforAll Buffalo Entrepreneur Mentors, such as Ms. Bakewell Chamberlin, are carefully vetted by the leadership team for their demonstrated commitments to small business advocacy, mentorship, entrepreneurship, and diversity and inclusion, both as business owners and within their respective fields of expertise. Each Entrepreneur Mentor represents a variety of backgrounds and demographics. Across a one-year commitment, the Mentor agrees to actively support EforAll Buffalo Program objectives by drawing from their own experiences to help coach and guide new entrepreneurs through the process of turning an idea into a viable, growing small business. Mentors typically work in teams of three and are matched as coaches with a single entrepreneur. Each team meets virtually as a group to help reaffirm the topics and themes raised during weekly class sessions, while strategizing with the entrepreneur on how to reach their own specific program goals.

Ms. Bakewell Chamberlin founded her own successful start-up, the 100% woman owned and WBE certified Embassy Global, in 2008, to assist worldwide high-tech component manufacturers in accelerating their global sales growth within niche technical markets. Embassy Global achieves this, via its offering of targeted, cost-effective, industry-specific sales and marketing programs, all of which are developed from Ms. Bakewell Chamberlin’s own nearly 25 years of field-proven global industry experience. Over the last 14 years, the firm has helped more than 200 industry brands in more than a dozen countries to achieve more rapid, stable and measurable sales growth, including from their export activities. The unique story of Ms. Bakewell Chamberlin and Embassy Global were recently profiled in the business leadership book, “7-Figure Minds: How to Grow and Lead a 7-Figure Business” by Alinka Rutkowska.

Beyond her work with Embassy Global, Ms. Bakewell Chamberlin is also an active small business advocate, coach, and mentor. As part of that work, and since 2020, she has served as an invited delegate to both the Leadership and Technology Councils of the Washington, DC-based National Small Business Association (NSBA), one of the nation’s oldest non-partisan grassroots small business advocacy organizations. Ms. Bakewell Chamberlin also serves as a Program Ambassador for the New York State Mentoring Program (NYSMP), where she helps to recruit new mentors and partners from within the local business community, while further building positive grassroots visibility of the work of NYSMP within Western New York and among local school districts. A resident of Hamburg, New York, Ms. Bakewell Chamberlin is a graduate of Williamsville Central Schools, Canisius College, and was recently accepted into the Harvard Business Analytics Program.

Notes EforAll Buffalo Executive Director, Juweria Dahir, "The EforAll Buffalo leadership team shares certain inherent common bonds with Molly Bakewell Chamberlin and her unique entrepreneurial journey with Embassy Global. Molly founded, and has succeeded long-term in operating, a highly respected WBE in the worldwide high-tech components manufacturing sector --an industry where female owners, founders and leaders have historically been underrepresented. She has actively chosen to keep her global small business based here in the Buffalo area. Molly has also actively and visibly given back to the community as a small business advocate, as well as a champion for mentorship, diversity, and inclusion. We honestly believe that the community should see more women like Molly, and like us, in these types of leadership positions," Ms. Dahir said. "So, when we at EforAll Buffalo come into the community and say, 'You should start a business and our program is really for you’, and they see us as leaders, and they see our supporters, and that we can help them to connect with mentors like Molly, who can help to really guide them, and whose own businesses have succeeded here locally well past their startup phase, I feel like people’s guards tend to really go down and they can begin to see real possibilities for themselves.”

Added Ms. Dahir, “If we can help these entrepreneurs to realize their dreams of owning their own businesses, this means that we're also helping to transform a specific area of Buffalo, because they're going to go back and tell their own peers and family, 'I'm now turning my dream into a business and you can, too, and these people really want to help me succeed."

Notes Ms. Bakewell Chamberlin, “I cannot say enough about the welcoming, positive and inclusive experiences that I’ve had as an Entrepreneur Mentor for the EforAll Buffalo Program. The program structure, format and content is innovative, comprehensive, and is exceptionally well-managed by Juweria, Sonya and the team. It’s fantastic to be able to give back to the Western New York small business community in this way, and also to work alongside fellow mentors from such diverse backgrounds and industries, all of whom share in the common goal of supporting another fellow local entrepreneur in their startup efforts. I highly recommend this Program for any aspiring entrepreneur in the Buffalo area. I am so grateful to be a part of it.”

For more information about EforAll, or about applying to become a participating entrepreneur or mentor, please visit www.eforall.org. For more information about Embassy Global and its available service offerings, please visit www.embassyglobalpr.com.

About EforAll:  
Entrepreneurship for All (EforAll) is a nonprofit organization that partners with communities nationwide to help under-represented individuals successfully start and grow a business through intensive business training, mentorship and an extended professional support network. To date, EforAll alumni have launched over 1,100 businesses. In 2021 alone, its businesses provided 1,734 local jobs and generated over $54M in revenue, despite the pandemic. Programs are available in both English and Spanish. EforAll current locations include Buffalo, NY; Longmont, Colo.; Northwest Arkansas, Rhode Island; and the following Massachusetts communities: Berkshire County, Cape Cod, Fall River/New Bedford, Worcester, Holyoke, Merrimack Valley, Lynn, and Roxbury.

About Embassy Global, LLC:
Founded in 2008, the Hamburg, New York, USA-based Embassy Global, LLC is a 100% woman owned, WBE-certified, all-virtual worldwide strategic technical growth marketing, PR, business development, and management consulting firm. The firm helps global engineered component manufacturers and their respective sales and marketing teams to achieve more rapid, sustainable sales growth, including from export activities, within niche vertical markets. It has done so, most notably, via the applications of its own recognized methods, strategies, and in-depth industry experience. Since its founding, Embassy Global has contributed to the worldwide growth of more than 200 high-tech component brands in more than a dozen countries, including some of the most respected global manufacturers and service providers in sensors & instrumentation, industrial process control, advanced manufacturing, electronic components, photonics, IIoT, semiconductor, photonics & optoelectronics, machine vision, factory automation, and motion control.