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2025 Black Entrepreneurship Celebration

Join us at Fayetteville Technical Community College on February 20 for our annual Black Entrepreneurship Celebration!


The event will highlight Black entrepreneurship in NC, with a focus on celebrating Black farmers and Black veterans. We will host panels on these topics, featuring small business owners, community leaders, other entrepreneurial support organizations, and CSBDF representatives. 


Click on the graphic to the right to learn more!


 
 

CSBDF ANNUAL REPORT
 

Check out the 2023-24 Carolina Small Business Development Fund Annual Report, 'Sparks of Innovation'. In this report, we highlight the work we did as an organization to support and uplift small business owners in our 2023-2024 Fiscal Year.


It is small business owners and entrepreneurs that are the sparks for innovation in our society, and at CSBDF we take pride in being an accessible funding resource, technical assistance provider, and small business policy advocate for these innovators. 

 

Click on the graphic to the left to read our Annual Report.
 

BOARD MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

At CSBDF, we are fortunate to have an active Board of Directors making a big difference in our small business ecosystem. Each newsletter, we will highlight a few of these exceptional Board members driving both CSBDF and NC's ecosystem forward:

Sedrick McCallum


Senior VP and Community Development Officer

SouthState Bank


CSBDF Credit Committee

Tiffany Hall-McNeill


Economic Development Director

Town of Morrisville


CSBDF Board Secretary; Policy & Research Committee Chair

Lori O'Keefe


President and CEO

Triangle Community Foundation

Tonya Portis


Owner

Raw Naturalellie
 

PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT
 

A special program of CSBDF, the Western Women's Business Center meets the needs of women entrepreneurs in Western North Carolina through one-on-one business coaching, workshops, and access to capital. Serving 22 counties in WNC, the WWBC serves as a small business catalyst in the region.


Click on the logo to the right to learn more about this program!
 
 

STAFF MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

At CSBDF, we have a hard-working staff working to serve North Carolina's small business owners through our three-pillar approach of providing capital, technical assistance, and small business policy research. Each newsletter, we will spotlight a few of our dedicated staff members:

Bryant Kennedy


Business Solutions Officer

Arkela Black-Wills


Board Relations Manager

Madison Potter


Business Solutions Officer

Bethany Alsobrook


Human Resources Director
 

CSBDF IN ACTION


CSBDF President & CEO Kevin Dick was recently selected as a member of the 2024-25 class for Leadership North Carolina, the state's premiere leadership deployment program. Click on the photo to the right to learn more about this great honor!






In January, CSBDF team members attended the NCEDA Career Trek in Morrisville to speak to undergraduate and graduate students of NC colleges. Learn more about NCEDA and this event by clicking the photo to the right.





 
 

CLIENT IMPACT

Meet Amanda and Edward Aina, owners of RoboCode Explorers in Wake Forest! RoboCode Explorers is a coding and robotics center dedicated to inspiring the next generation of innovators. They provide hands-on STEM education for kids, offering engaging classes in coding, game design, and robotics using Lego Education kits. Their mission is to make STEM fun and accessible, helping kids develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills for the future.

 
 

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

Interested in sponsoring CSBDF's upcoming Black Entrepreneurship Celebration, helping us to honor and highlight the work of Black small businesses in our state?


Click on the photo to the right to check out our available sponsorship packages, and reach out to Director of Development and Strategy Amanda Sorrells at asorrells@carolinasmallbusiness.org to learn more!


For more information on sponsorship opportunities for all our events, check out our Sponsorship Packet.

 
 


 
 
 
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