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Truist Donates $40 Million to Launch Innovative Nonprofit Fund Supporting Ethnically, Racially Diverse and Women-Owned Small Businesses
Commitment to the CDFI sector designed to significantly increase investment in communities and entrepreneurs that have experienced decades of underinvestment CHARLOTTE, N.C., (Sept. 23, 2020) – Truist Financial Corporation (NYSE: TFC) today announced a $40 million...
ACE Women’s Business Center | SBA’s Frontline Warriors ‘on point’ Ready to Serve
Alejandra Diaz and Sandra Font of the ACE Women's Business Center by: Patrice Dozier (DOTR), Economic Development Specialist, SBA Georgia District Office, U.S. Small Business Administration ACE Women's Business Center (WBC) Director Sandra Font and...
ACCESS TO CAPITAL FOR ENTREPRENEURS RECEIVES $4 MILLION GROW WITH GOOGLE SMALL BUSINESS FUND LOAN TO HELP SMALL BUSINESSES RECOVER FROM COVID-19
Mark and Teresa Bishop, owners of Just Right Auto Service in Roswell, Georgia, have been loan clients with ACE since 2016. They were recently able to get their Paycheck Protection Loan through ACE as well. Opportunity Finance Network has awarded the loan to support...
COVID-19 Message From Grace Fricks, President and CEO
Dear Business Owners, All of us at ACE have been monitoring the rapidly evolving COVID-19 situation, and we wanted to share the steps we’re taking to keep our staff, borrowers, partners and communities safe. We recognize the severe dislocation occurring in the small...
Meet ACE’s Newest Employee, Brigette Meeler!
Join us in welcoming Brigette Meeler, who just joined ACE last month as our new Accounting Specialist. “So far, I’ve been paying invoices and handling bank reconciliations,” she says, “but I’m just learning, so I’m sure my responsibilities will increase.” Meeler...
Client Spotlight: Royal Graphics
Clients of Royal Graphics enjoy the personal touch. “If you call here during business hours, you talk with me on the phone without going through a bunch of rigamarole,” says Romeshia Burton, who owns the Hartwell-based business. “You come in and sit down and see your...
Meet our Newest Loan Officer Serving Northwest Georgia
Please welcome Zabdiel “Zab” Mendez, who joined ACE last month as our commercial loan officer for Northwest Georgia, based in Dalton. He brings more than 20 years of banking experience to the job, including loan and branch management with Synovus, Regions Bank,...
Client Spotlight: SMB Essentials
Lake Louise has coined an original word for her vocation. She calls herself an “ecopreneur.” She has developed a line of health and beauty products called SMB Essentials that includes the brands Lotus Moon, DetoxRx, and Plain Jane Beauty. All of them apply the ethos...
Wells Fargo Foundation awards ACE a $2.8 million grant to spark small business growth, job creation
Team members from Wells Fargo, ACE, Morehouse College and Morehouse Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center celebrate the grant presentation at the African American Hall of Fame at Morehouse College on Tuesday evening, January 21. Diverse Community Capital Program...
Introducing ACE’s newest Board Member, Mary Kepler
Mary Kepler was brought up by strong women. “My mother and grandmothers taught me to get an education and be self-reliant and self-supporting,” she says, with pride, noting that her mother was a nurse who became an instructor who developed the nation’s first...