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Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs Receives $4 Million Grow With Google Small Business Fund Loan to Help Small Businesses Recover From Impact of 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 the CDFI’s work helping minority- and women-owned businesses Atlanta, GA,…
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SBA’s Disaster Loan Basics
As a resource partner of the U.S. Small Business Administration, ACE Women’s Business Center will be happy to assist clients with the application process of the SBA’s Economic Injury Disaster Loans. Please read the information provided below carefully to see if you meet the requirements. SBA’s Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) Basics Who is eligible to…
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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 businesses and communities we serve, and we are in active discussions with…
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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 vision, and we make that come to life.” That…
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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, Alliance National Bank, and Community & Southern. “I’m really excited about the opportunities…
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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 of sustainability, whole-body wellness, and a vast knowledge of salutary…
