Help for gay entrepreneurs.Minorities have often looked to Neighborhood Economic Development Organizations to get their small businesses off the ground, and now the gay community is no exception. With a $75,000 grant from the Mayor's Office of Community Development, San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden launched the nation's first NEDO NEDO National Eating Disorders Organization NEDO New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organisation (Japan) NEDO National Economic Development Office for gay entrepreneurs in late October. "I felt that economic empowerment was really an agenda for our community," said Bevan Dufty Bevan Dufty is an American politician and a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. He represents District 8, which includes the Castro, Noe Valley, Glen Park, and Diamond Heights neighborhoods.He is the son of writer William Dufty and Maely Bartholomew. , an openly gay San Francisco supervisor who helped start the gay NEDO. There are a lot of gay people who have aspirations aspirations npl → aspiraciones fpl (= ambition); ambición f aspirations npl (= hopes, ambition) → aspirations fpl for having their own businesses." Local resident LaMott Atkins was the first to receive a small business loan, which he used to open his Bikram Yoga/ Castro studio. |
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