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Benedict College Women’s Business Center Receives a $100,000 Grant from the Truist Foundation to Reach Socially and Economically Disadvantaged Women Business Owners in
On Friday, December 3, 2021, the Benedict College Women’s Business Center (WBC) announced it received a $100,000 grant from the Truist Foundation. The purpose of this grant is to aid the WBC’s mission to support economic prosperity for minority women and strengthen communities through entrepreneurial and financial education services by…
Biotech company IMCS expanding in Columbia region
Irmo-based Integrated Micro-Chromatography Systems, Inc. (IMCS), a biotech startup grown out of research at the University of South Carolina, is expanding in the Columbia area. Their investment of $4.1M is expected to create 31 new high-wage jobs as the company expands its capacity to supply its primary customers – clinical…
Meet The Founder: Lasenta Lewis-Ellis
Starting from scratch is not foreign to Lasenta Lewis-Ellis, the founder and CEO of LLE Construction Group. Growing up in Columbia, Lewis-Ellis attended college for architectural engineering technology with dreams of building her mother a house. After her mother’s passing, however, she found herself struggling to find the same meaning…