Sentences with phrase «inner city businesses»

The Inner City 100 program recognizes successful and rapidly growing inner city businesses and their CEOs as role models for entrepreneurship, innovative business practices, and job -LSB-...]

Each year, the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) compiles a list of the 100 fastest - growing inner city businesses in the U.S., recognizing the critical role they play in urban communities as both employers and community builders.

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Many founders of high - growth enterprises in the inner city come from entrepreneurial stock; the parents of 58 out of 100 CEOs on Inc.'s ranking owned their own business.

When Karim and I were childhood friends, we could never have envisioned that we'd be named 2014 California Small Business of the Year and create a successful model for opening inner - city restaurants.

Many businesses shy away from moving into inner - city areas like South Central Los Angeles due to concerns about market viability, vandalism and gangs, but when we were looking for a location for our Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar franchise, my partner, Karim Webb, and I realized it didn't make sense to look anywhere else.

Besides teaching the brothers the importance of hand washing, the experience exposed them to the specific benefits of doing business in the inner city — access to highways, parking for large vehicles, flexible zoning, and cheap land.

And inner - city grocery businesses and their customers are benefitting in a big way.

The 2012 Inner City 100 is packed full of innovative businesses such as Intelect (# 96) that are not only energizing their communities by generating dollars and jobs, but are growing at outstanding rates.

A whopping 96 % of Inner City 100 winners offer health insurance, showing that businesses can grow without compromising competitive benefits for employees.

Mr. Tilson also led the effort to create ICV Partners, a national for - profit private equity fund focused on minority - owned and inner - city businesses that has raised nearly $ 500 million.

Prior to launching his investment career in 1999, Mr. Tilson spent five years working with Harvard Business School Professor Michael E. Porter studying the competitiveness of inner cities and inner - city - based companies nationwide.

Whether supporting one of our high - impact urban business programs or the entire organization, our partners know they are choosing to support an organization dedicated to transforming inner cities across the country.

I have went the last several years working in ministry to the very poor in an urban inner city, and have owned a small business to support myself and my family.

«The truck would sell food at the business district in the morning and afternoon, and the proceeds would go to buy more food to feed inner city hungry people in the evening,» he explains.

My father traveled a lot and when I had the opportunity to travel with him we obviously ate out a lot, mostly in inner city ethnic restaurants as that's where my father conducted most of his business.

Blunkett might have paused to reflect on whether any business executive who happened to be listening to his interview on the BBC Today programme yesterday would want to commit investment to any of those inner - city areas where life would be intolerable without ASBOs to control feral youth.

The President cum chief revealed that okada business is mostly engaged by the youths of Zongo and inner city communities hence the need for the Zongo Minister to turned it into a motorcycle institute where the youth can be trained to ride professionally.

Philp also founded property development lender Pluto Capital and the charity Next Big Thing, a business plan competition for inner - city teenagers which was dissolved in 2016.

Residential areas and Zongos, the Central Business District, including the inner city periphery, markets and lorry parks, university campuses, schools and hospitals, and beaches and public places of entertainment and tourist centres are all going to elicit special attention.»

Like the rest on Wall street, He made his first $ 10 Million Dollar's by inside - trading when Solomon Brother's (where he was a partner) was sold to another company (great inside info only reserved for the member's of the inner - circle who have ton's of shares in the company) who sent him packing (in my opinion a ruse (i.e. bonus) to keep the SEC from sticking their nose into the matter) and with that money started his own business & bought his way into City Hall where he now sits on his throne denying benefits to the familie's of those who sacrificed their lives to help other's on 9/11, threaten the political future of community representatives (Councilmember's) who dared to disagree with him or voted against one of his policie's etc., etc..

Artisana Organic Foods received recognition from ICA (Inner City Advisors) for Bloomberg Business Week Inner City 100 in 2011.

Artisana Organic Foods was awarded by Bloomberg Businessweek's Small Business Magazine for Inner City 100 in 2010.

Stirring up the crowd with a grin and a shrug, he explains that the politicians are being held hostage by big business, which would just as soon pretend the inner city doesn't exist.

The program, funded primarily through the San Francisco Department of Public Health's Inhalant Prevention Program, uses hip - hop as a means to teach students critical - thinking, technology, and business skills; nurture their passion for music; and, most importantly, help them steer clear of drugs and other pitfalls of an inner city childhood.

Business doesn't know what to do with schools,» said Xavier Del Buono, the president and chief executive officer of Workforce L.A., a nonprofit group that links employers with inner - city job - seekers in Los Angeles.

In my urban inner city school, I teach a lab science in an old business room.

From inner - city youth to business executives, Manny has learned to speak, and command, the language of his audiences with relevant, riveting, and compelling messages, moving them from cheers, to laughter, to tears, and go - forward determination.

Mr. Tilson also led the effort to create ICV Partners, a national for - profit private equity fund focused on minority - owned and inner - city businesses that has raised nearly $ 500 million.

Prior to launching his investment career in 1999, Mr. Tilson spent five years working with Harvard Business School Professor Michael E. Porter studying the competitiveness of inner cities and inner - city - based companies nationwide.

Sentiments, a Commerce, Calif. - manufacturer of home textile and pet products, was named on Fortune magazine's Inner City 100 list, which recognizes the 10 fastest - growing inner - city businesses within 10 industry secInner City 100 list, which recognizes the 10 fastest - growing inner - city businesses within 10 industry sectCity 100 list, which recognizes the 10 fastest - growing inner - city businesses within 10 industry secinner - city businesses within 10 industry sectcity businesses within 10 industry sectors.

Just steps away from the inner - city shops and restaurants and with the National Convention Centre adjacent to the hotel Crowne Plaza Canberra is well suited to both the leisure and business traveller.

This appealing, inner city apartment hotel is located on Kent Street in the business and banking end of Sydney's CBD, just a short walk from Wynyard train and bus station.

Park Regis Griffin Suites are located in the popular and vibrant inner city suburb of St Kilda only a short distance from the central business district of Melbourne.

An inner city oasis on the banks of the Brisbane River at Kangaroo Point, Quest Bridgewater is only minutes from the heart of the Brisbane Central Business District.

This quality serviced apartment hotel is located in the quiet inner city suburb of Waterloo - about a 20 minute bus ride to the city centre and providing serviced apartment requirements for many of the nearby business parks in Redfern, Surry Hills, Chippendale, Ultimo, Zetland and Moore Park.

Close to the Central Business District, but without the hustle and bustle, they're situated opposite a pleasant large inner city park with picnic facilities and recreational grounds.

The Hatton's 20 spacious rooms cater for business and leisure travelers who appreciate quality inner city accommodation with personal service and contemporary Melbourne style.

The hotel is on the western side of the Sydney inner city suburb of Ultimo and is about a 10 minute walk to Darling Harbour and a further 10 minutes to Sydney's Central Business District.

Frequently these lodgers driven by the corporate imperatives of weekday business, frequently desert the inner city to be at home on weekends - leaving the hotel prepared to offer discounts at the last minute.

Mantra on Kent serviced apartment represent good 4 star corporate serviced accommodation right in the heart of the financial and business end of Sydney's inner city.

Whether you are on a business or corporate trip and planning a family holiday, guests are invited to make full use of the heated lap pool, gym and onsite restaurant and bar and much - needed inner - city parking.

If you're visiting Hobart on business or traveling with a friend, our Studio is the perfect choice in inner - city accommodation Sleeping one or two people in a king bed or two singles, it's got everything you need for a stay in the Apple Isle.

The Hatton's 20 spacious rooms cater for business and leisure travelers who appreciate quality inner city accommodation with personal service and

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She helps food producers of limited resources strengthen their farm businesses and work in partnerships to create healthy and diverse food options in inner city and rural communities.

Foley Hoag attorneys also advise nonprofits, inner - city businesses, artists, and domestic and international inventors.

David is a former chairman of the board of Youthbiz, a Denver - based non-profit focused on business education for inner city youth.

We have represented many organizations that empower women or people of color in the United States and abroad to create and foster businesses and other entrepreneurial opportunities in their communities, such as Accion International, the Center for Women and Enterprise, Initiatives for a Competitive Inner City and others.

[69] Mr. F submits that there were legitimate business reasons for providing the benefit: to show prospective Baywest clients a development opportunity in the inner city, MW carried the financial risk of construction, and BPI directors approved the project.

She was also a founding member of the Tuesday Girls whose mission was to provide networking opportunities for women executives and business owners; was a partner in Accelerent, a national platform for mid-sized corporate businesses in the Mid-Atlantic; served as a corporate mentor for the COMMIT Foundation, whose mission is to mentor mid-level female veterans to reach their full potential personally and professionally; and served for nine years on the board of the Girl Scouts of Central Maryland with a focus on their capital campaign to expand services for inner - city girls.