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Kesi StriblingAugust 29th, 2024

Opportunity DeKalb, a community where all are welcome and encouraged to get where they want to be in life

Opportunity DeKalb is a community where all are welcome and encouraged to get where they want to be in life. An integral part of the Annie Glidden North Revitalization Plan, which seeks to invigorate northwest DeKalb, Opportunity DeKalb is carrying that mantle through its four focus areas: advocating for inclusive action, developing the future, furthering asset-based community building, and communicating progress. Chad Glover, Executive Director of Opportunity DeKalb, says that the entrepreneur

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Carmen GreenJuly 29th, 2024

Meet Brandy Ross, Founder of Multi Mom Luxury Cleaning, LLC

Dynamic and resilient entrepreneur Brandy Ross, a 36-year-old single mom, hails from Moorestown, New Jersey. Though her college journey at Rutgers University was interrupted when she became a mom, Brandy embraced the belief that education is an ongoing process. Determined to build a bright future for herself and her now 11-year-old daughter, in 2023, Brandy enrolled in Rising Tide Capital’s Community Business Academy. Fueled by the support of micro-lender Grameen America Incorporated, she

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Ambrosia BrodyJuly 24th, 2024

Melanie Cunningham Makes Legal Services Accessible for Entrepreneurs

Paving the path for others is nothing new for Melanie Cunningham, Esq. As a first-generation university graduate and the first attorney in her family, the Bronx native did not hesitate to jump cautiously into becoming the first entrepreneur in her family. The dream: launch a firm that provides excellent, personal, and practical legal support to small business owners to help them build a business that lasts. The idea started percolating during her

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Carmen GreenJuly 9th, 2024

Shaikil Grisham Uses Culinary Magic to Create Delicious Snacks and Treats

Shaikil Grisham wasn’t going to buy snacks at the school where she worked and waste her money, so she made them for herself and her husband who worked at the same facility. The savings were noticeable for the couple who often put in long days on their job and spent a lot on vending machine treats, so Grisham decided she would make not just snacks but meals, too. Generous to a fault,

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Carmen GreenJuly 1st, 2024

Tyesha Edwards Provides ‘Safe Space’ for Women

Tyesha Edwards is impassioned when it comes to helping women in the community. She phrased it perfectly when she said she likes “to work with moms,” but she knows that healing has a trickle-down effect on children too. No one escapes the outreach of the fall ’22 Rising Tide Capital Harvey George recipient. In 2022, Edwards conceptualized The Safe Space for Women, a community center currently nestled on a sprawling farm in

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