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The Edge
Connection offers an award-winning, nationally recognized,
multi-faceted program that delivers best-practices microenterprise and small business training, financial
literacy, entrepreneurially focused technology training, and
essential entrepreneurial support services to aid
microentrepreneurs to launch, sustain, or grow a business.
The Edge
Connection is a fully independent, non-profit 501 (c) (3)
organization. We are housed on the campus of Kennesaw State
University’s Coles College of Business and enjoy many
benefits from our KSU partnership, including in-kind support
and teaching assistance. In the fall of 2004, we were
certified as the new Metro Atlanta Area SBA Women’s Business
Center and launched The Women’s Business Center of the
Greater Metropolitan Atlanta Area, a WBC that targets
low-to moderate-income women, minorities, and persons with
disabilities.
The Edge
Connection received the U.S. Models of Excellence, Visions
2000 award from the U.S. Small Business Administration, the
“Simply the Best” award from the U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development, and the Federal Home Loan Bank
Community Partnership Excellence Award. The Edge Connection
is a founding member of
Georgia Micro Enterprise Network
and is a member of the national microenterprise trade
association, the
Association for
Enterprise Opportunity (AEO).
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