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With Three M’s’ Students, Durham Chain To Assist Minorities CHAPEL HILL -- When black businessmen approach Ralph Hunt for advice on starting up a new venture. -he's lively io tell them that the three “M’ s'' tor survival. J^re ' "M§nagemenJ. JJarketing, and Money'^and that if you •can get the first two going for you. the money will come forth:-_____ Hunt is director of an organization that has. been helping blacks and other economically disadvantaged --g«uips_geL_tbe_three "M’s" together for more than 30 years--the Durham Business and Professional Chain The Chain was one of the first Southern chapters of the National Business League that Booker T. Washington started in the man's as a coic.hoir, organization for the black community. It earned another, "first” fifteen months ago, when it was among the nine initial agencies in the country to be awarded special contracts as “Business Development Organizations" by the Federal Office of minority Business Enterprise. This fall, the Chain will add a new service to the im pressive list of ways it has been helping minority businesses, when it takes on a cooperative project with graduate business students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Chain professionals and the students will be focusing on the “Management" aspect of Hunt’s formula. The Chain has invited Master of Business Administration students who run a imlnntAAx project called the MBA Business Assistance Program to work with them in serving some of its clients in the Durham area. The Chain has also invited the MBA's to work with them oh one of its biggest projects coordinating plans for the black shopping center that is proposed for Durham at the intersection of the East-West Expressway and Fayetteville Road. Planned as part of Durham’s urban renewal >rogram, the snapping ■»nlar •vill be owned by a corporation sponsored by the black community. Right now, the Chain is working around the clock to find several mer chants to rent space there, and to get ready to meet with developers this month. They need the large tenants in order to secure loans to buy the land that has been reserved for the shopping center. “The prospect of working with the Chain is a great op portunity for MBA's at Carolina,” believes business student Jim Miller who has I helped set up the joint projec t. ‘‘The MBA Business Assistance Program was —T started by graduate students about four years ago as a voluntary consulting service for small companies that might lack resources for professional assistance '' "The students see working with these companies as a clear opportunity to test out some of their hard-earned schooling on 'reaT^world problems." says Miller. The MBA's have met many of their clients through the Venture Management workshop for small business that the UNC School of Business Administration APARTMENT HUNTING? ' X®" WE VI COT IT! BAHAMA DRIVE APARTMENTS O'** bkxk ell Tu<kov##qr» o» GU"*»oqd Drivf, 1 btdioow, 498 u'4ii«i 120 tii'o 2 b*d"JO'”*. 512 5 wi*h (O’pt* S l 35, with wtilititi $75 ti'to Dfopti woitf •nnltPt v jr JWidHtimo §7 394 190* MOM vAUCV APARTMENTS P*Ott#"'iQ 2 iwinviMii. g pur's d'Opt* t 'ubho > .♦ (fl'ppl mlpr COOPd *Ol»d pH <*!*tt*.< rsppl. Onc*s |M(ludrg d*h*0>hfr ord d'srosolf <#n»ppl o lnu«d>v In <iMi#». town mofilfnoi„p po'-ov *f >oom\ tin* $ I JO I ••• bous« 5125. 2 b»d* n«m 5 I J5 3 I ill) 761 I M l|..n Rond Apt |4 ' J6 778$ f»w# 0i4 RVsro Good R-phi or AMtoo Rood. *o Miti o*i i#tt BIGGEST BARGAIN IN TOWN *1108 TRYON FOREST APARTMENTS Apotfmartt #!!#• iwiAiAnn| p*»V •*» mWilOPiAR 4'0p«t wot#> aM ppplloiws S«*# with rO'p** Sp tvntf 9«p«rd 1HKMN 1115.4125.* 2 RMH 512441 SB.* I BE BROOM 51444154* Vnotw •! p»*f#B »*«#ft lOTAAt Atlto d copp#* Bi tftfitwi. touAL oMoeruwirr HOUSING GRIFFIN REALTY CO. RnMwH Mm*|pr H7-7M 411 Lpntptfc Brt*» Ipl. 2 HOOfl tftl Orwt out N Trsron «• 5000 Bkxb Wh #id»nbtili On»# - ---I GRAND OPENING N< m SALE Where else can you find all this? Two to five bedrooms. Carpeting. Kitchen Oven and Range. Garbage Disposal and Privacy Fencing. Maintenance-free living. Club house. Full-size swimming pool. And the chance to move in for less than $900, Minutes from downtown. Ready now. How's that for openers? I — _ ' I* I ^_>_ _ TOWNHOUSES Off Tryon St. at 28th St. I V.
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