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

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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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Conference Circuit: 2014?s Events in Review

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At its conference, The Learning Resources Network emphasized the importance of “merging of old-school print-based marketing techniques with new-school media,” and the American Academy of Religion ’s meeting workshops gave attendees lessons in academic blogging, social media in the classroom, and web-based class projects.

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