Greenville Chamber Of Commerce: Minority Business Accelerator Announces 2022 Cohort

Press release from the Greenville Chamber of Commerce:

December 9, 2021

(Greenville, SC) The Greenville Chamber’s Minority Business Accelerator Upstate program recently graduated 2021 program participants and announced the 2022 class.

The Minority Business Accelerator supports and scales high-potential minority-owned firms by providing targeted training, access to business coaches, and access to large corporations. Participants undergo intensive training for the first six months following the internationally-recognized Interise StreetWise ‘MBA’ curriculum led by instructor Wendell Jones. Then, participants work closely with financial experts, coaches and MBA peers on their three-year Strategic Growth Action Plans and implementation of learnings for the last six months.

Graduating from the 2021 program were 7 local, small business owners:

Shameka Argo, Points of Origin, LLC

Willie Benjamin, Printing Opportunity

Madeline Hawkins, Bloom Behavioral Therapy

Summer Lee, Flying Biscuit Café

Michael Mance, Mance Multimedia, LLC

Dorothy Shain, Dorothy Shain Fine Art LLC

Larandas Yeargin, Silo Media Group

At the December 9th graduation ceremony, Summer Lee received the MBA Excellence Award for her dedication and growth throughout the program.

Several other awards were presented at the ceremony. Scott Whelchel and Louise Connell, both longtime supporters and volunteers with the program, received the MBA Champion Award. South Carolina Small Business Development Corporation received the MBA Partner Award.

This press release was produced by the Greenville Chamber of Commerce. The views expressed here are the author’s own.