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On June 25 and 26, the Leon County School Board will convene a Strategic Planning Retreat. It is my focus to include discussions about the “re-imaging” of our school district to respond to critical issues of concern and challenges in our community.
At the crux of these discussions will be a conversation on remedying poverty and teenage gun violence, and identifying ways to end the workforce crisis in health care and construction trades through the educational offerings of the Leon County School District.
In September 2019, I joined the Big Bend Minority Chamber of Commerce’s founder, attorney Sean Pittman, and president, Antonio Jefferson, on a fact-finding visit to Nashville, Tennessee, to see how that school district had responded to the workforce crisis in its community.
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Antonio Jefferson - We re All One Village Antonio Jefferson is the president and CEO of The Big Bend Minority Chamber of Commerce. His organization focuses on helping female and minority-owned businesses. Jefferson states that nationally about 41% of Black-owned businesses have had to close their doors for good. Heâs inspired by how the Big Bend has stuck together and helped each other during the tumultuous COVID-19 era.
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Getting through the pandemic was no simple task for G&G Caribbean. The 20 year business went through some of the same difficulties many small businesses have gone through during the pandemic.
Big Bend Minority Chamber of Commerce sees uptick in minority businesses opening
Experts say more than 41 percent of minority-owned businesses have closed never to reopen in the United States since the pandemic. But that trend is going in the opposite direction in the Big Bend.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) â Experts say more than 41 percent of minority-owned businesses have closed never to reopen in the United States since the pandemic.
But that trend is going in the opposite direction in the Big Bend. I ve been trying to get here for a couple of years and then the spot finally opened up, said Gabriel Lovett.