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Funding Initiative to Support Black-Owned Businesses Hits the Local Level

Associations Now

The Association for Enterprise Opportunity, continuing its three-year Tapestry Project, has launched “action labs” in five cities to support black-owned businesses. This week, AEO officially launched the Tapestry Project Action Lab, which takes the larger project and applies it to businesses at the local level.

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Synergy in the Boardroom: From Chaos to High Functioning

SCD Group

Board members were personally responsible for specific projects and/or functions, many of them pet projects developed with little input, vetting or Board approval. Although the association had a strategic plan, association programs were developed and managed in silos with little or no mapping to the organization’s mission.