The commitment will advance the Center for Black Entrepreneurship, housed at Spelman and Morehouse Colleges, and catalyze the Center’s graduate-level programming at Clark Atlanta University WASHINGTON, D.C. – Recently, the Black Economic Alliance Foundation (BEA Foundation), a national nonprofit organization that promotes generational wealth-building for the Black community, announced a funding […]
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