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mm 8A STRICTLY BUSINESS/The Charlotte Post Thursday, April 3,1S57 Black business’ choice Continued from page 7A hardships for minority business- Corporate Reality: A Challenge for the Future,” will be the theme of the Indiana Business Opportunity Fair, which will be held April 14 and 15 at the RCA Dome. Even as they cut back on sup pliers, many corporations are taking steps to prevent undue Bunio said that although Cummins avoids taking on new suppliers, the company may make exceptions for minority firms. Lilly has hired a consultant to assess its supplier needs and then find, grow or create minori ty businesses to serve those areas. And corporations can teU their major suppliers to include minority businesses among their ovm customers. “I’ve seen the degree of influ ence corporations have had on their major suppliers to utilize minority businesses,” Jones said. 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The semi nar teaches interpersonal skills and rational skills such as ana lyzing data and make results- oriented decisions, the corner stones of effective management. Participants will solve problems in teams and will receive feed back on their team performance as well as an individual assess ment of their own communica tion, planning and group partici pation skills. More than 30,000 executives have attended AMS sessions in over 20 countries, with clients ranging fi'om American Express to the Social Security Administration. ‘This seminar offered the most information and applied learn ing of any seminar I have taken over my 25 years of professional development,” said Jerry Saunders of the Ben Craig Center at UNC Charlotte. Cost for the seminar, including lunch, is $700 per participant. Registration ends April 16. For more information, call Sandra Feldman at 541-8680. ^OUCH. 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Farmers fi-om the Southeast, Texas, New York and Missouri attend a conference here to dis cuss laws that protect their farms and how they can stop foreclosures on their farms. “We wanted the conference here in Tillery so people could really see the destruction that’s happening in our rural areas,” said Gary Grant, executive director of Concerned Citizens of Tillery, which organized the conference. The conference, planned for more than a year, will offer practical information on lending rules, estate planning, condem nation and inheritance laws. In 1920, one in seven farmers was black. By 1982, that had dwindled to 1 in 67 farmers. Today, the nation has only about 18,000 black-owned farms, less then 0.1 percent of afi the farmers. The National Black Farmers Association demonstrated in front of the White House in December to protest what they said were discriminatory prac tices at the federal agricultime department, which has been sued by black and Hispanic farmers. That prompted Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman to investigate the charges of minority farmers. Last month, his task force issued a report with 92 recommendations detailing how the USDA could eliminate discrimination in the department. Many black farmers don't think the recommendations are enough - during the conference, organizers also plan to write a response to them. The association hopes the con ference and another demonstra tion in Washington planned for April 23 will force Glickman to make more stringent proposals. 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