About Us
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Our History:
In
1997, four outstanding Cobb County organizations came
together to address economic development for low- to
moderate-income residents of Cobb County Georgia and
surrounding Metro Atlanta Counties. No longer content to
limit their assistance to crisis intervention, they sought a
venue to eradicate the cycle of poverty. These four
organizations:
Center for
Family Resources,
YWCA of Northwest Georgia,
Coles
College of Business, Kennesaw State University, and the
United Way in Cobb spent twelve months training
with national experts learning how to develop and implement
a program for micro-business development. Each of these four
partners made a generous in-kind contribution of space,
staff for program components, and resources to develop and
launch The Cobb Microenterprise Council, the first
community microenterprise model in the United States.
During our
strategic planning update in August 2005, our Board of
Directors chose to create a new image and marketing
direction to keep pace with our enormous growth and extended
delivery of services. Our new name and brand became The
Edge Connection…empowering and developing Georgia’s
entrepreneurs.
In the fall
of 2004, we became a U.S. Small Business Administration Women’s
Business Center. Through the Women’s Business Center, we
were able to build capacity and expand our numbers served.
We continue
with our mission to provide training and technical
assistance to low- to moderate-income entrepreneurs desiring
to launch, sustain, or grow a micro or small business.
We launched
a new business incubator, The Enterprise Center and we are
moving forward with plans to develop The Edge Connection’s
Commercial Culinary Complex,
a
shared-use, commercial kitchen and state of the art food
processing facility.
We look forward to the future, to continued growth and expansion of
services to meet the needs of Georgia’s future
entrepreneurs. Together we can turn dreams into reality.
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