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Norfolk, Va., Minority Business Program to Partner with Area University.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, March, 2003
By Mike Knepler, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 8--MEDAL, a struggling nonprofit program that helps minority entrepreneurs start or expand small businesses, hopes to gain new life by becoming partners with a Norfolk State University project.
"MEDAL serves a critical need in the community, so I'm going to do what I can to assure its survival," said Robert C. Askew, director of NSU's Entrepreneurial Center and executive director of Enterprise and Empowerment Foundation at Norfolk State University.
The foundation, known as E2F, is responsible for developing Norfolk State's Research and Innovation to Support Empowerment project, or RISE, which will include programs to promote area business growth....
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