Press Release
Contact: Robert Caudle |
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CED Receives Durham Chamber’s Non-Profit Excellence Award
CED Honored for Creativity, Innovation and Community Impact in Durham
May 30, 2007, Research Triangle Park, N.C. – The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) received the “Non-Profit Excellence Award” at the Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce’s Annual Small Business Excellence Awards on Wednesday morning at the Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club.
Stephen Gwaltney, BB&T’s Business Services Officer, nominated CED for this award. CED President Monica Doss accepted the award this morning on behalf of the organization.
“CED is extremely honored to receive the Durham Chamber’s Non-Profit Excellence Award,” said Doss. “We truly appreciate the Chamber’s recognition of CED’s work to serve high-growth entrepreneurs throughout the region over the past 23 years.”
The Caring House Inc. was also named a recipient of the Non-Profit Excellence Award. Hamilton Hill and Associate Scaffolding Inc. received honors in the small business category.
The Durham Chamber has recognized area small businesses at this prestigious awards program since 1986. According to the Chamber, their Small Business Excellence Awards recognize small businesses and non-profits for their hard work, creativity, innovation, financial success and community involvement.
For more details on the Durham Chamber, please visit www.durhamchamber.org/ or contact Sheena Johnson at 919.682.2133, sjohnson@durhamchamber.org.
About CED: The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) is a private, non-profit organization formed in 1984 to identify, enable and promote high growth, high impact entrepreneurial companies and to accelerate the entrepreneurial culture of the Research Triangle and North Carolina. Headquartered in the Research Triangle with a divisional office in Wilmington, CED is the largest and oldest entrepreneurial support organization in the nation with more than 4,000 members representing over 1,100 entrepreneurial companies, financiers and professional firms. CED provides education, mentoring and capital formation resources to new and existing high-growth entrepreneurs through annual conferences, seminars, workshops and programs on entrepreneurial management and finance. www.cednc.org
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