Minority Enterprise Development Week of WNC

Join us on Wednesday, Sept 20th to honor our 2011 Winners!

 For details on the Awards Reception, visit our Events page.

NEW! Business Plan Competition

Prizes:

$1500 cash from A-B Tech's Entrepreneurial Institute

Resident or Affiliate client status in the AB Tech Business Incubator for 12 months.

Half-day strategic planning session with a business counselor from SBTDC

Open to start-ups and existing businesses wishing to expand.

Applicants must be an ethnic minority from Buncombe, Clay, Cherokee, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Madison, Swain or Transylvania county.

Application deadline: August 25

All applicants must be available to present their business idea to the selection committee on September 8, 2011.

For more information, contact Jill Sparks at jsparks@abtech.edu or 254-1921

Download the application here

2011 MED Week Awards

(Nominations for these awards are now closed) 

WNC Minority Business Person of Year

This year's winner will receive a membership & marketing package with the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce  from the Center for Diversity Education at UNCA.

Minority Business Category Awards

Emerging Small Business - NEW!

Lender of Year - Regional & National

Congratulations to the 2010    Award Winners!

Nell Leatherwood - Sequoyah Fund (Lender) Accem Scott - Green Brothers Solar (Construction)    Pat Occumma - NativeScapes Landscaping (Service) Horace Adell, Jr - Clean Streak (Minority Business Person of the Year) Juan Martinez - Cielito Lindo (Restaurant) Brenda Mccauley - Aesthetic Gallery (Retail)