Financial Incentive: PAID training for electric vehicles to install and | V103

Two-time Emmy and three-time NAACP Image Award winner and television producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Dr. Tiffany Bussey, the director of the Morehouse Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center. The center supports the development of minority entrepreneurship through academic research, training and consulting services.

Goodwill has launched a new program to increase its workforce in electric vehicle work. Employees go through a four-week program and start earning $30 an hour. Atlanta is one of four accelerator locations across the country. Participants will learn to install and maintain electric vehicle chargers, heat pumps and solar panels.

The Clean Tech Infrastructure Academy at Goodwill is a four-week training program where participants attend 40 hours per week and, for $15 an hour, learn how to become maintenance technicians for electric vehicle utility equipment, essentially electric vehicle charging stations.

Discussion points:

• Less than 3% of businesses in America with employees are Black-owned, creating an undeniable economic divide. Using a research-driven and tailored approach, MIEC offers pathways to closing the income and equality gap.

• 400 minority-owned small businesses positively impacted, 850 new jobs created, $34 million in capital access, and nearly $82 million in revenue growth in the Atlanta region.

• ABOUT THE SMALL BUSINESS EXECUTIVE PROGRAM AT MIEC

• The three Cs of the Small Business Executive Program are capital, connections and contracts.

• 125 minority-owned businesses participating in Ascend Atlanta saw $13.5 million in increased revenue and gained access to $5.5 million in capital funding.

• The unique collaboration with the US Department of Defense mentor-protégé generated $20 million in revenue and created over 150 new technology jobs.

• MIEC is proud of its growing list of nationally recognized sponsors, including Wells Fargo IBM, the University of Washington, ACE and JP Morgan Chase & Company.

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