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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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Getting to Know Board Member, Sibyl Slade
For Sibyl Slade, financial success is more than just an abstract concept. You can see physical proof of her vision in her legacy project on foreclosure prevention that is on display in the National Monetary Museum in New York City. “It’s one of those things where you’re doing your job and didn’t realize you were…
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Atlanta Business Chronicle Recognizes Grace Fricks as Corporate Diversity Champion
Grace Fricks was honored as a Corporate Diversity Champion at the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s Diversity and Inclusion Awards held Thursday, November 14th, at King Plow Arts Center. Surrounded by her management team and board members, she humbly accepted the award on behalf of her lifelong work. Nicknamed “Amazing Grace,” she has been making an impact…
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Outstanding Small-Business Owners and Partners Recognized at ACE Annual Awards
The J. Alton Wingate Economic Partnership Award was presented by ACE to JPMorgan Chase at its annual awards ceremony. The award was presented to Rey Curva, Georgia market manager for Chase Business Banking by representatives of Equity ATL and Ascend Atlanta — two recent collaboratives Chase has funded in Georgia to help expand access to…
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ACE and Ms. Niecy’s Learning Center Accept the 2019 Sue Wieland Embracing Possibility Award
The Atlanta Women’s Foundation treated ACE’s Grace Fricks and Sandra Font, along with Juanisa Kimbrough, to a Meet & Greet with Gayle King, the keynote speaker of the Numbers Too Big to Ignore luncheon. ACE and client Juanisa (Niecy) Kimbrough, founder of Ms. Niecy’s Home Away from Home Learning Center Inc., recently received the…
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Partner Spotlight: Warner Fuller Consulting
When Gretchen Fuller encountered ACE, she knew she had found an enterprise with kindred values. “My company tends to focus on women-owned businesses,” says the president of Warner Fuller Consulting, LLC. “We don’t turn anyone away, but I’ve found that many women entrepreneurs feel more comfortable speaking to another woman as far as being heard…
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Client Spotlight: CIA Media Group, LLC
Montina Young Portis was a single parent posting videos on YouTube as a hobby. She amassed 12,000 subscribers to her channel and realized she had a knack for business and storytelling. Six years ago, she launched Creative Internet Authority, rebranded in 2018 as CIA Media Group, a nationwide video production and creative marketing agency that…
