entrepreneurs<\/a> are from diverse backgrounds with about 43% of self-employed Americans being female, according to the Treasury Department. Entrepreneurs from Black, Asian and Hispanic communities also rose exponentially. <\/p>\nThe WeCreation Center is acting as a catalyst for building emerging entrepreneurs \u2014 this includes students who take entrepreneurship classes there. <\/p>\n
Dametria Brown of Dallas said she has been coming to the center since summer to learn embroidery as she plans start her own embroidered hat brand. <\/p>\n
Brown wore a cream-colored trucker hat with the initials \u201cGU\u201d embroidered on it in red which, she said, stands for \u201cGenuinely Unique.\u201d She did not make that one, but said that was the type of hats she aspires to create and sell. <\/p>\n
\u201cI like wearing hats and back home, my nickname, they call me GU,\u201d she said. \u201cSo I was like, OK, I\u2019m gonna turn this into a brand because of my style and the way I dress and my personality.\u201d <\/p>\n
Brown, who is originally from Little Rock, said she had never seen a space like this before where people can come and create things. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnything you could put your mind to, you can create here,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
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St. Philip’s School and Community Center merch sits on a table at the WeCreation Center on Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025, in Dallas. The partnership provides the school with all of their merch. <\/p>\n
Christine Vo \/ Staff Photographer<\/p>\n
She said this was a two-year project for her. She has learned how to make the embroidered hats and now her goal is to start selling the hats by the end of this year. <\/p>\n
Like Brown, many others have found their passion for creativity and entrepreneurship at WeCreation Center. <\/p>\n
About 18 students at St. Philip\u2019s School attend their seventh-grade entrepreneurship classes at the center almost every other Wednesday, Porter said. In the class, each student has their own business that they are developing \u2014 the list includes garden flags, jewelry, dog treats and a whole range of ideas. <\/p>\n
\u201cOur emphasis is on helping kids to not necessarily focus on being employed, but to become employers,\u201d Flowers said. <\/p>\n
The center helps them build the products and teaches the students how to sell them. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to show them different ways that they can monetize on their businesses,\u201d Porter said. <\/p>\n
Flowers said that the school\u2019s teaching philosophy revolves around incorporating hands-on training into the academic curriculum, which is what ignited the idea of building the innovation hub. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re always focused on not just what happens on campus, but also what the community needs,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Back in the day, the school used to send students to different places in the community to learn by experience, and Dallas Designing Dreams was one of those places, Flowers said. Now, the collaboration has made it possible for the students to get hands-on training on campus. <\/p>\n
Jacqueline Bowman, a retired nurse who works at the center to help people build things, said they do not typically publicize the center. People are drawn to it more through word of mouth. <\/p>\n
\u201cSomebody came and got whatever they got, and then they tell somebody, and tell somebody, that\u2019s how this business is run,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
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Jacqueline Bowman poses for a photo at the WeCreation Center on Oct. 15, 2025, in Dallas. Bowman helps students learn entrepreneurship skills through candle and room spray making classes. <\/p>\n
Christine Vo \/ Staff Photographer<\/p>\n
Bowman got involved with the center because she said she loves serving the community \u2014 in whatever way she can. She moved here from South Carolina, where she served as a nurse. <\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know how not to serve, and I\u2019m not happy when I\u2019m not serving,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
Carla Robertson of Dallas has been working with Dallas Designing Dreams for almost two decades and is now one of the instructors who help people create designs at the center. <\/p>\n
\u201cI love teaching,\u201d she said. \u201cI just love seeing people\u2019s dreams come to life.\u201d<\/p>\n
Robertson said seeing children realize for the first time that they can create things with their own hands by sewing is one of the best parts of teaching at the center. <\/p>\n
Porter said the next step is to work with the school to create a merchandise center or a retail store to showcase the products being made at the center. He said he hopes that one day the center will grow into a destination for people around the world to come and see how people work together. <\/p>\n
\u201cI see a village \u2014 a village of entrepreneurs and crafters and people working together,\u201d Porter said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Picture this: walls decorated with paintings, racks lined with bracelets and leather purses and jackets, dresses of all…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":390287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[64,1596,407,9604,607,14055,2426,68910,420,256,14053,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-390286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-education","11":"tag-entrepreneurs","12":"tag-entrepreneurship","13":"tag-future-of-north-texas","14":"tag-innovation","15":"tag-inspired","16":"tag-jobs","17":"tag-philanthropy","18":"tag-south-dallas","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115577334950398178","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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