Harrisburg-based McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC announced the continued expansion of its Legal Equity Advancement Program, now open to qualifying Black-owned and Black-controlled businesses in three states.
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Lancaster County strategic plan aims to level playing field for BIPOC community
To level the playing field for the Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC)-owned small businesses, a Lancaster County cohort has teamed up with more than four dozen BIPOC owners to develop a strategic plan to improve access to capital and bring cultural understanding to the community.
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Camp Hill events planner wins pitch competition
The owner of a Camp Hill business that plans corporate meetings and conferences, weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, graduation parties and more won the $8,000 grand prize in the pitch competition held June 9 to culminate the first Capital Region Multicultural Small Business Innovation Lab, sponsored by M&T Bank.
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Fulton appoints community affinity banking director
Lancaster-based Fulton Bank named Joel Barnett to the new position of senior vice president, director of commercial affinity banking, where he will build relationships with businesses owned by people of color, women and veterans.
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Community members continue to invest in the York Revolution
To call the Rev. Mark Kearse a “people person” is an understatement.
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Harrisburg City and Dauphin County Commissioners to fund disparity study on Harrisburg’s diverse businesses
The City of Harrisburg and the Dauphin County Commissioners announced that they will be entering a funding partnership to launch a new disparity study.
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Black and Brown young professionals build community amid pandemic, BLM protests
Two weeks into March, Kimeka Campbell, executive vice president of operations for the Young Professionals of Color of Harrisburg, sat down with another leader of the group to come up with what would be next for the four-year-old organization.
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Harrisburg Chamber webinar addresses questions on systemic racism, unconscious bias in the office
Businesses in the midstate asked panelists how they could be more aware of their unconscious biases when looking to hire Black employees and what they could do to address current world events with their employees during a webinar held by the Harrisburg Regional Chamber & CREDC.
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