America21 at White House
The America21 Project Co-founders, Chad Womack, Ph.D. and Johnathan Holifield, Esq. are pictured in front of the White House on April 16, 2012 ahead of leading a panel discussion at the White House HBCU Summit on Entrepreneurship.
Johnathan Holifield led the discussion on "Inclusive Competitiveness."
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Rutgers Business School Professor dt ogilvie (lowercase intended) will soon head the Rochester Institute of Techology’s (RIT) business school. Dr. ogilvie will assume her responsibilities as dean of the E. Philip Saunders College of Business at RIT in August. As a professor at the Rutgers Business School of Newark and New Brunswick, ogilvie served as the founding director of the school’s Center for Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development (CUEED), which has worked...
America21 to deliver message of ‘Inclusive Competitiveness’ Strategies to Global Detroit, TechTown
Global Detroit, TechTown and Detroit Innovation Economy Leaders set to hear the Law and Economic Strategy of Inclusive Competitiveness May 8, 2012 For Immediate Release: CLEVELAND — On May 10, Global Detroit will host an important presentation and discussion in Detroit. In partnership with TechTown, the event seeks to ignite new thought, advocacy, policy and investment to increase diversity and inclusion in Metro Detroit’s Innovation Economy. Inclusive Competitiveness Johnathan...
Innovation Economy Should Be Inclusive Economy
The America21 Project principal and co-founder, Johnathan Holifield will speak in Detroit May 10-11. Here’s an excerpt from an interview with Holifield by Model D Media: While Holifield’s mission is to provide direct services to underserved communities, he believes the message of America21 is equally important. It’s about putting pressure on a system to turn it around. And according to Holifield, a region’s expression of a message is the first step to creating...
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What Black American Innovators Need to Produce Jobs By Mike Green April 29, 2012 Originally written for Dominion of New York. See full article here. Black Americans are no strangers to entrepreneurship. But sheer numbers of entrepreneurs do not translate into fast-growing companies that create jobs. Case and point: The Bureau of Labor Statistics data show a 60 percent spike in Black entrepreneurship between 2002 and 2007, equivalent to 1.9 million Black-owned businesses. However,...
America21 makes big impact at White House
Johnathan Holifield, Esq., co-founder of The America21 Project, led a panel discussion at the White House HBCU Summit on Entrepreneurship on April 16, 2012. Baltimore News caught up with Johnathan following his eye-opening presentation and moderation of the HBCU panel on entrepreneurship and “inclusive competitiveness” at the White House. Here’s Johnathan explaining why Black America has a lot of work to do in a 21st century Innovation Economy: Here’s...
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MLK WOULD SUPPORT OBAMA’S JOBS ACT By Mike Green April 16, 2012 On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated — just a few weeks before he was to travel to Washington D.C. with the intent of excoriating a stagnant nation over the issue of the American economy (see video). On April 5, 2012, the most powerful Black man in the world, President Barack Obama, signed into law the historic JOBS Act and opened an unprecedented economic door for Black Americans that...
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America21 will Moderate a Panel on the Economic Strategy of Inclusive Competitiveness at the White House HBCU/MSI Summit on Entrepreneurship WASHINGTON D.C. — The White House is hosting a Summit on Entrepreneurship for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) and Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) on April 16, 2012 in Washington, D.C. in partnership with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and the Department of Education (DoED)....
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By Mike Green April 7, 2012 President Obama signed into law the JOBS Act (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) on April 5, 2012. The historic law slightly alters the economic game across America that has long been tilted in favor of the wealthy. The new law opens the field of investing in high-growth startups and allows access for millions of Americans who do not meet the previous standard of $1M net worth and a minimum of $200K in new income — a standard set by the Securities and...
America21 Helps Homewood in Pittsburgh
Photos by Mike Green Homewood-Bound America21 traveled to the community of Homewood in Pittsburgh, PA to deliver a message of economic strategy and hope on March 14. Pittsburgh’s Urban Innovation21 invited America21 to speak to Homewood residents alongside urban renewal, education and business leaders. We divided our presentations between the three co-founders, Chad, Mike and Johnathan. America21 Envisions Prosperous Homewood Johnathan introduced America21 and...
A21 speaks at White House on Inclusive Competitiveness
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Mike Green shares economic dream on MLK Day 2012
Around a thousand people gathered today at the Oregon Convention Center for The Skanner newspaper’s 26th Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast. The guests of honor included Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and Patrick Quinton, executive director of the Portland Development Commission. Keynote speaker was Mike Green … Photo by Cornelius Swart The article written by Cornelius Swart and published in the Oregonian newspaper on Jan. 16, 2012, painted...
SBA Administrator responds to The America21 Project
Johnathan Holifield, co-founder of The America21 Project engages Karen G. Mills, Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, after her keynote address to the City Club of Cleveland on Jan. 27, 2012. Go to 42:20 in the video timeline to hear Ms. Mills’ response to Johnathan’s question about connecting the economically disconnected to regional innovation clusters. The America21 Project is dedicated to changing the economic narrative across Urban America...
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Johnathan Holifield, co-founder of The America21 Project, provided a solid contribution to the discussion of several issues during a stellar television appearance on Feagler & Friends in Cleveland, Ohio on Dec. 16, 2011. Feagler & Friends Discussion topics: Ohio’s redistricting impacts electoral districts Colt McCoy suffers concussion against Steelers Death Penalty political pendulum Withdrawal from Iraq: Is the war really over? Click here for...
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