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  • Georgia’s Largest Small Business Lender Welcomes New CEO

    Georgia’s Largest Small Business Lender Welcomes New CEO

    Martina Edwards Leads ACE into its 25th year of growth. With nearly 25 years of experience in the financial services industry, Edwards is focused on continuing ACE’s legacy of providing affordable loans to under-resourced business owners.

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  • WBC Metro Atlanta- January

    WBC Metro Atlanta- January

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  • Tonya Rapley Joins ACE as Director of Strategic Partnerships

    Tonya Rapley Joins ACE as Director of Strategic Partnerships

    ACE | Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs announced today that Tonya Rapley of Fulton County, GA has been named Director of Strategic Partnerships. Rapley will oversee the Fund Development and Marketing departments for ACE. As a member of the management team, the Director of Strategic Partnerships is responsible for all fundraising and oversight of marketing…

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  • ACE Highlighted Among Atlanta Nonprofits Navigating New Leadership

    ACE Highlighted Among Atlanta Nonprofits Navigating New Leadership

    The Atlanta Business Chronicle included ACE | Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs in a recent story about new local nonprofit leaders and their plans to balance the legacies and futures of their organizations. Martina Edwards will become the new president and CEO of ACE on January 1, succeeding Grace Covington Fricks who has been the…

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  • WBC Metro Atlanta- December

    WBC Metro Atlanta- December

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  • Client Spotlight: Coordinates LLC

    We’re thrilled to announce that our amazing clients, Sanya Richards-Ross & Aaron Ross, owners of Coordinates, were recently featured on ABC’s Shark Tank! Here’s what a recent article had to say about their journey and ACE’s role in their success: “In addition to their work with Coordinates, the founders’ partnership with ACE has been pivotal…

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  • Veteran Loan Fund Announces Its Third-Year Results, Closing of Second Round of Funding

    Veteran Loan Fund Announces Its Third-Year Results, Closing of Second Round of Funding

    The fund supporting Veteran-Owned Small Businesses does it again ATLANTA, Georgia, November 11, 2024 – The Veteran Loan Fund (VLF) announced that since its launch in 2021, its members have deployed more than $77 million across the country, helping over 1,000 veteran-owned businesses create or retain close to 5,500 jobs. More than 50% of the…

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  • Simple steps to help keep your business safe from scams

    Simple steps to help keep your business safe from scams

    Small business owners should be aware of scams and take steps to protect their businesses. With the holidays coming up fast and the explosion of AI introducing ways to improve and streamline business, we want to advise all business owners to please continue to beware of scammers. Fraudsters are getting more and more clever in…

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