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Published in InSync Birmingham

·Aug 29, 2022

Ed Farm provides new tech opportunities to Birmingham residents with city BOLD funds

Birmingham, Alabama — Ashley McGhee has worked at Shipt for two years, where she assists retailers and drivers to make sure customers’ needs are met. But when she learned of an opportunity to learn coding and enter the pipeline for technology jobs, she jumped at the chance. “This is definitely…

Skills Development

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Ed Farm provides new tech opportunities to Birmingham residents with city BOLD funds
Ed Farm provides new tech opportunities to Birmingham residents with city BOLD funds
Skills Development

4 min read


Apr 19, 2022

Community Care Development Network, city of Birmingham serve up second chances for nontraditional students

Birmingham, Ala. — At 17, Amnisty Penn has already encountered some pretty significant bumps in life. Soon after she became a teenager, her mom went to prison, and Amnisty went to foster care. By the time mother and daughter were reunited four years ago at the Lovelady Center in Birmingham…

3 min read

Community Care Development Network serves up second chances for nontraditional students with BOLD
Community Care Development Network serves up second chances for nontraditional students with BOLD

3 min read


Apr 1, 2022

Rebirth Community Corporation, city of Birmingham team up to boost small business owners’ mental health

Birmingham, Ala. — Erica Bryant has worked as a fashion artist all her adult life — sometimes as a hobby, sometimes a side hustle and sometimes a full-time vocation. In 2018, she decided to stop dabbling with other jobs and go all in with Erica B Airbrush Designer, her Birmingham-based…

Birmingham Alabama

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Rebirth Community Corporation, city of Birmingham team up to boost small business owners’ mental…
Rebirth Community Corporation, city of Birmingham team up to boost small business owners’ mental…
Birmingham Alabama

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Published in InSync Birmingham

·Apr 1, 2022

Urban Impact uses city BOLD funds to foster Birmingham’s small businesses

Anita Craig entertained thoughts of owning a business for years. But to make her dreams a reality, it took a series of jobs lost to the COVID-19 pandemic, plus encouragement from a friend willing to join her on the entrepreneurial journey. Their Trvl Love Koffee, now a year old, lays…

Diversity And Inclusion

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Urban Impact uses city BOLD funds to foster Birmingham’s small businesses
Urban Impact uses city BOLD funds to foster Birmingham’s small businesses
Diversity And Inclusion

3 min read


Nov 8, 2021

Birmingham’s Bush Hills neighborhood reaps harvest of produce and community connections

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — In an age when free time often means scrolling social media or binge-watching reality TV, many have lost the art of building neighborly connections. Yet social connections are a key part of healthy and vibrant communities. With assistance from the city, one neighborhood in Birmingham is helping…

Birmingham

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Birmingham’s Bush Hills neighborhood reaps harvest of produce and community connections
Birmingham’s Bush Hills neighborhood reaps harvest of produce and community connections
Birmingham

3 min read


Jun 22, 2021

BOLD opens doors for new skills and a second career for Birmingham woman

Birmingham, Ala. — Spurred mostly by the wishes of others, Sharon Davis studied nursing and worked in the field for 17 years. Then, she cared at home for her bedridden sister who suffered with heart issues and end-stage kidney disease. When her sister died, Ms. Davis knew she wanted a…

Bold

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BOLD opens doors for new skills and a second career for Birmingham woman
BOLD opens doors for new skills and a second career for Birmingham woman
Bold

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Jun 10, 2021

Birmingham family on path to financial stability thanks to city’s BOLD partnerships

Birmingham, Ala. — Jessica Parkman and her family struggled to make ends meet even in the best of times. Between rent, groceries, utilities and daycare, she and her boyfriend barely made it from one paycheck to the next. “Neither one of us makes a ton of money, even though we…

Bold

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Birmingham family on path to financial stability thanks to city’s BOLD partnerships
Birmingham family on path to financial stability thanks to city’s BOLD partnerships
Bold

4 min read


Jun 2, 2021

Nuckles Services seizes opportunities to grow, thrive in Birmingham

Birmingham, Ala. — When the walls of the Ramsay-McCormack building came tumbling down in April, an excavator bearing the name Nuckles sat nearby, having done its part to transform this spot in the Ensley Business District. The machine and the moment belonged to Emmett Nuckles, an energetic young entrepreneur whose…

Birmingham

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Nuckles Services seizes opportunities to grow, thrive in Birmingham
Nuckles Services seizes opportunities to grow, thrive in Birmingham
Birmingham

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May 18, 2021

BOLD funding helps lure Acclinate to City of Birmingham

Birmingham, Ala. — As companies across the globe tiptoed through the COVID-19 era and prayed the economy would hold, digital health company Acclinate made a BOLD move. In December 2020, the company announced its headquarters had moved from Huntsville to Birmingham. Acclinate’s move did not just happen by accident. The…

Bold

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BOLD funding helps lure Acclinate to City of Birmingham
BOLD funding helps lure Acclinate to City of Birmingham
Bold

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May 18, 2021

Merchant sees BOLD impact in Birmingham’s historic Fourth Avenue Business District

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — In the heart of Birmingham’s Central Business District and the Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument is a historic commercial corridor that continues to thrive as a symbol of pride for Birmingham — the historic Fourth Avenue Business District. It is a place that highlights the collective resiliency…

Bold

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Merchant sees BOLD impact in Birmingham’s historic Fourth Avenue Business District
Merchant sees BOLD impact in Birmingham’s historic Fourth Avenue Business District
Bold

3 min read

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