June 24, 2025 No, Nate Hogan is not taller than the Wells Fargo tower. But be prepared to look up. Look up to a former finance guy, a former school board chair, with experience in "accounting ... sales, relationship management, operations and leadership." And a fellow with more than enough ... Continue Reading →
An economic development incubator rising at 916 W. 5th
June 17, 2025 Today's speakers help lead a Durham-based organization that over the last 40 years has grown to create opportunity for business success and community stability in minority communities. The news, if there was some, was that this National Institute of Minority Economic Development, ... Continue Reading →
Columbia consultancy helps organizations achieve goals
June 10, 2025 Karen R. Jenkins pivoted away. from the mortgage business amid housing market collapse of 2007-8. In 2020, as Covid-19 turned Dilbertville dwellers into work-at-homers, Jenkins began workshops on how to balance work life and family life under the same roof. The R. might as well ... Continue Reading →
Group recounts effort to launch Eastland Yards renewal
Jan. 28, 2025 The plan is about more than soccer, more than sports tourism, more than afterschool learning opportunities for children or jobs at the old Eastland Mall site or boosting an entire quadrant of the City of Charlotte. All of those goals were discussed this morning, along with ... Continue Reading →
New sale expected at Excelsior Club site
Issuing microloans, plus training to turn ‘hustlers into CEOs’
Aug. 13, 2024 Forum participants heard today from leaders of a boutique microloan lender that makes it its business to turn small business owners scrambling to get their firms off the ground into real CEOs, leaders who not only were inspired to build a product or service clients, but are ready to ... Continue Reading →
Accelerators, incubators and coaching for business success
June 25, 2024 Nikita Allen shared some of her experiences coaching owners of small businesses as they grow their businesses and stay focused on what they find most rewarding. Her company is Growmetix. ... Continue Reading →
How a family business focuses on succession planning
May 28, 2024 The Charlotte Post, "the voice of the Black community since 1906," had a succession of family owners before Gerald and Bob Johnson's father Bill bought the paper in 1974. None of the previous owners kept the paper in their families. Bill had a plan to do so – hilariously recounted by ... Continue Reading →
Trailblazers in a culture change inside America’s banks
March 19, 2024 "Show up and come prepared to do the work." Nancy Stroud offered that synopsis of how she and a number of the other women on this morning's panel took the entry-level jobs they were offered in the '60s and '70s as banks first began hiring Blacks for career positions, and made ... Continue Reading →
Helping MWBEs thrive in the construction industry
March 12, 2024 Today’s presenters have had much to do with helping minority contractors find their niche in Mecklenburg private and public construction projects. Young people: Listen to the stories from the presenters. Listen to the many successful minority contractors who spoke during the ... Continue Reading →
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