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  • ACE Entrepreneur of the Year cited in Senate Testimony

    ACE and Melissa Bennett, 2010 Entrepreneur of the Year, were cited in U.S. Treasury Department CDFI Fund Director Donna J. Gambrell’s testimony before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on May 25. Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) provide financial products and development services to underserved markets such as low- and moderate-income, women- or minority-owned  businesses. Specifically, Gambrell said, while discussing CDFI…

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  • Bill Snapp, Solarflex Technologies, receives “Greenovation Award”

    Bill Snapp of SolarFlex Technologies is the recent recipient of the ACE Greenovation Award. Solarflex Technologies, LLC provides solar energy solutions to organizations which can benefit both environmentally and financially from the power of the sun. In December 2010, he was presented with an amazing opportunity—to design and build a 79,000-watt system Marine Corp Recruiting…

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  • ACE’s Ace, Grace Fricks, in Georgia Trend’s January 2012 issue: Organizations: Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs

    In 2008, when other lenders scrambled to take their cards off the table, ACE lived up to its bold acronym by upping the ante. “Most businesses were hunkering down, waiting for the recession to blow over,” says Grace Fricks, who founded the community development finance institution in 1999 to help technical college graduates with microloans.…

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  • New Financing Program to Support Atlanta Healthy Food Businesses

    Grace Fricks, President and CEO of Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs (ACE), announced a new healthy food financing initiative for small businesses on September 28, 2011, at a meeting of the Georgia Supermarket Access Task Force hosted by the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. ACE has received $500,000 from the Department of Treasury’s CDFI Fund to provide loans to…

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  • New Financing Program to Support Atlanta Healthy Food Businesses

    Grace Fricks, President and CEO of Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs (ACE), announced a new healthy food financing initiative for small businesses on September 28, 2011, at a meeting of the Georgia Supermarket Access Task Force hosted by the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. ACE has received $500,000 from the Department of Treasury’s CDFI Fund…

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