The DeKalb County E-Center will host a special Auburn Workshop Event on from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. April 25 at the DeKalb County E-Center located in Rainsville.
Auburn University’s Center of Education Outreach and Engagement, or CEOE, is expanding educational opportunities to K-12 schools in the Black Belt regions of the state of Alabama with the use of a $214,000 Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act grant.
The Birmingham Times
By the time he was in his 20s, Jeremy Duckworth was on his way to creating economic development opportunities for urban and rural communities.
Duckworth is executive director of the Central Alabama Redevelopment Alliance (CARA), an organization focused on helping small businesses become sustainable and building economic development opportunities in parts of Birmingham, Montgomery, and Selma.
His experience goes back to his first business, which he started while enrolled at the University of Alabama (UA) in Tuscaloosa.
“It was a marketing business called Neighbor Foundation, and it was through Amway, [a multilevel marketing company that sells health, beauty, and home care products],” said Duckworth, who was 20 at the time. “That taught me so much about people.”