RISE Empowerment Center

08/27/2026

🎓✨ STUDENTS, THIS ONE IS FOR YOU! ✨🎓

Looking for something fun to do that won’t break the bank? Admission is FREE for students at the 6th Annual RISE Pop-Up Market! 🙌🏾

Come shop, eat, connect, and discover some amazing minority- and women-owned businesses right here in Nacogdoches County. 🛍️💜

And it’s not just shopping! You can enjoy:

🎶 Live DJ & entertainment
🤝🏾 Networking & family connections
🎤 Speakers & community conversations
🎁 Door prizes & giveaways
🎨 Children’s activities
🍴 Food trucks
🛍️ Local vendors with fashion, beauty, food, art, services & MORE!

📅 September 26
⏰ 10 AM–2 PM
📍 C.L. Simon Recreation Center
1112 North Street, Nacogdoches, TX

🎟️ STUDENTS GET IN FREE!

Bring your friends, your classmates, and your shopping list! 😆 Come support local entrepreneurs, make connections, and have a good time while you’re at it.

Students—consider this your invitation! 🎓💜

08/27/2026

We're about empowering small "Business"!! Expanding our horizons is our Aim!!. Enlarge your view of the small business community of Nacogdoches. Join us on September 26, 2026

08/25/2026

FROM THE FOUNDATION OF OUR PAST TO THE POSSIBILITIES OF OUR FUTURE. 💜💛

For five years, RISE Pop-Up Market has been more than an event. It has been a gathering place for connection, empowerment, community, and opportunity.

And we could not have done it without the businesses, organizations, churches, community leaders, and individuals who chose to believe in the vision and invest in RISE along the way.

Today, we pause to say THANK YOU. 🫶🏾

To every past sponsor and in-kind donor whose name appears on these boards—your support helped make RISE possible. Your partnership helped us create experiences, open doors, connect people, and continue building something meaningful in our community.

But we’re not finished.

We’re grateful for where we’ve been.
We’re proud of what we’ve built.
And we’re excited about where we’re going.

As we prepare for our next Pop-Up Market on September 26, we’re inviting new and returning partners to join us in taking this vision even further.

💜 Sponsor.
💛 Partner.
💜 Donate.
💛 Show up.
💜 Spread the word.

Because when a community comes together, we all RISE.

Here’s to the sponsors who helped us get here—and to the partners who will help us take RISE to the next level.

RISE 6th Annual Pop-Up Market — September 26
📍 Nacogdoches, Texas

The best is still ahead. ✨

08/21/2026

We got so much brewing! Just connect with us to learn more about exciting Vendors, merchant door prizes, entertainment, speakers, etc.

08/21/2026

RISE is about more than shopping. 🤎

Every time we shop local, hire local, eat local, recommend a local business, or simply share their work, we’re helping create opportunity right here in our community.

Our dollars have a destination. Let’s be intentional about where we send them.

Come shop, connect, discover, and RISE together. ✨

08/20/2026

SUCH AMAZING TALENT.........Genesis Crafting is one of 40 exhibitors, showcasing her business in the RISE Empowerment on September 26. JOIN US in celebrating and supporting Nacogdoches Business owners.

🔥 NACOGDOCHES, WE’RE SHOPPING LOCAL! 🔥

It’s time to SHOP ‘TIL YOU DROP! 🛍️🎉

The 6th Annual RISE Pop-Up Market is coming to Nacogdoches, and this is one community event you do NOT want to miss!

Come out and discover, shop, eat, connect, and celebrate some of the amazing women and minority-owned small businesses right here in our community! ❤️🛒

And YES… ADMISSION IS FREE! 🙌🏾

✨ Shop with local vendors
🎶 Enjoy live DJ & entertainment
🎤 Hear from inspiring speakers
🎁 Win door prizes & giveaways
👧🏾 Bring the kids for children’s activities
🍴 Grab something delicious from the food trucks
🤝🏾 Connect with family, friends & your community

📍 C.L. Simon Recreation Center
📅 September 26
⏰ 10 AM–2 PM
📍 1112 North Street, Nacogdoches, TX

Whether you’re coming to find your new favorite small business, grab some good food, support a friend, or simply enjoy a FREE day out with the family—WE WANT TO SEE YOU IN THE ROOM! 🎉

💜 Your dollars have power. Your purchases matter. Your support helps small businesses RISE.

Tag somebody you’re bringing with you! 👇🏾

08/17/2026

SIX YEARS! 🎉🔥

For SIX YEARS, we’ve been bringing together one of the LARGEST pop-up markets for women & minority-owned businesses in East Texas! 🙌🏾✨

And this year? We’re making it BIGGER, bolder, and even more impactful. 🛍️💼🎤

The anticipation is BUILDING, and we can’t wait to fill the room with entrepreneurs, shoppers, supporters, and our incredible community!

👀 So… have YOU made plans to be in the room?!

Come shop. Come connect. Come discover your next favorite business. And most importantly—come support the people building right here in East Texas! ❤️

SIX YEARS. ONE COMMUNITY. SO MANY BUSINESSES TO CELEBRATE.

We’ll see you there! 🎉

05/06/2026

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