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CONTACT: Philadelphia, PA (BlackNews.com) - American Cities Foundation has received partial funding from the SBA to bring economic development to the West Philadelphia area. The project, named RISE ("Reaching and Impacting Small Entrepreneurs"), is a small business initiative directed at the creation and retention of businesses in the underserved West Philadelphia area. American Cities Foundation will intervene on behalf of small businesses in lower income areas that need the technical assistance and the resources required to make them successful and solvent enough to move to the next level. RISE will also implement outreach programs to identify potential new business owners, including transitional populations such as ex-offenders and welfare-to-work participants. "We recognize the importance of locally-owned businesses for healthy, stable neighborhoods," stated Sandra Dungee Glenn, President and CEO of American Cities Foundation. American Cities Foundation recently named Bernadine Hawes as the Project Director for the small business initiative. Ms. Hawes has set aggressive goals for the RISE project over the next year. She also has made it a priority to utilize the resources available in the community thereby providing economic opportunity in Philadelphia at all levels. Bernadine Hawes has pledged to achieve measurable improvement in the RISE target areas. She notes, "I am delighted to be hired as the architect for this small business initiative. RISE can serve as a model for other local communities as well as have a national impact. Too often we forget about the under-represented and their importance in the overall picture of building a sustainable urban community. Economic empowerment requires that everyone in the community is uplifted or economic empowerment is never achieved." "This project is part of American Cities Foundation vision to advance an agenda to empower urban residents while revitalizing neighborhoods and cities and could have a long term and broad implication for urban areas across the country." "The Foundation focuses on implementing these types of programs that can be used as models to create success stories across our city and our nation," continued Glenn. For more information on the RISE project and/or how to participate, contact Bernadine Hawes at 215-476-8091, x121.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 22, 2007
Melodie Cunningham
1-888-265-6480
410-730-6906
melodie@globaldiversitygroup.com
AMERICAN CITIES FOUNDATION RECEIVES FUNDING FROM SBA TO BRING ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT TO PHILADELPHIA
ABOUT AMERICAN CITIES FOUNDATION
The American Cities Foundation (ACF) is a national organization founded to promote the development of a national urban agenda that will lead to the revitalization of our nation's cities. ACF is developing models based on the best practices of national programs that have created successful innovative solutions to urban issues. ACF is dedicated to improving the quality of life for children, youth and families in urban America through systemic change. ACF programs include Project MARS (an academic mentoring program serving adolescents); Project NEAT (an environmental improvement and education project); The Community Leadership Training Institute (which funds community-based drug prevention and recovery programs); and Project T.R.A.N.S.I.T which prepares youth for careers in the transportation industry.
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