Triangle Entrepreneurs Rise to Challenge and Feed Hungry in Central and Eastern N.C.Entrepreneurs Raised 335,000 Pounds for CED's Entrepreneurs' Challenge RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK Research Triangle Park, research, business, medical, and educational complex situated in central North Carolina. It has an area of 6,900 acres (2,795 hectares) and is 8 × 2 mi (13 × 3 km) in size. Named for the triangle formed by Duke Univ. , N.C. -- The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED (Capacitance Electronic Disc) An earlier videodisc technology from RCA that was released in 1981 and abandoned five years later. Like phonograph records, the analog disc contained grooves that a stylus rode over. ) mobilized the entrepreneurial community across the Research Triangle region throughout November and December to help feed the hungry in Central and Eastern North Carolina Eastern North Carolina or (often abbreviated as ENC) is the region of North Carolina which includes the eastern third of North Carolina. It includes the Outer and Inner banks, thus it is often known geographically as the state's coastal region. . As part of the 2006 Heart of Carolina Food Drive, which was chaired by Monica Doss, CED's president, Intersouth Partners, Square 1 Bank, Inspire Pharmaceuticals Motricity and the CED staff created the Heart of Carolina Entrepreneurs' Challenge. Together they combined their resources to issue a $30,000 challenge to local entrepreneurs. The entrepreneurial community responded generously by raising more than $37,261.50, exceeding the initial goal. In all the Entrepreneurs' Challenge provided more than 335,000 pounds of food, close to half of the overall total amount collected for the 2006 Heart of Carolina Food Drive. "We need creative solutions to end hunger for thousands of children, elderly and the working poor, said Jane Cox, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of the Food Bank of Central & Eastern NC. "On behalf of everyone, thank you to all who participated in the CED's Entrepreneurs Challenge. I believe that only innovation and love can find the cure for hunger." The 2006 Heart of Carolina Food Drive exceeded its total goal by more than 17,000 pounds, with a grand total of 767,325 pounds of food raised. The 2006 total is an improvement of almost 300,000 pounds over 2005's total. "CED was pleased to see the entrepreneurial community respond so passionately to the Entrepreneurs' Challenge," said Monica Doss,. "Entrepreneurs from throughout our region helped the Food Bank exceed a very ambitious goal in the fight against hunger." CED would like to send a special thanks to the top five contributors to the Entrepreneurs' Challenge including William E. Morgenstern, RTI International, Campbell Alliance Group, Smith Anderson Blount Dorsett Mitchell & Jernigan LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol and Sicel Technologies. CED would also like to thank all corporate and individual supporters who donated their time and money to provide food for the less fortunate: * 3Dsolve * AAIPharma, Inc. * Adherex Technologies * Advanced Liquid Logic, Inc * Alpha-Gamma Technologies, Inc. * Argos Therapeutics * BB&T Insurance Services * Capstrat * Cato Research * CED * Cognosci, Inc. * Dataflux * Elinvar * Ernst & Young * First Citizens Bank * Fuqua School of Business The Fuqua School of Business is the business school of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Fuqua (pronounced few-qua) is one of the youngest U.S. business schools affiliated with elite research universities, but has shown strong performance in rankings by business Culinary Club * Gentris Corporation * Good Technology * Hutchison Law Group * Inspire Pharmaceuticals * Intersouth Partners * IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) (VFD VFD abbr. volunteer fire department VFD (US) n abbr (= volunteer fire department) → freiwillige Feuerwehr f only) * LVL LVL In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Latvian Lats. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 7 Systems, Inc. * Manpower * Motricity * NC Rural Center * Orlan and Cornelia Johnson Family Fund of Triangle Community Foundation * Progress Energy, IT&T Dept * Quintiles Quintiles Transnational Corp. is a contract research organization which serves the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and healthcare industries. History Quintiles was founded in 1982 by Dennis Gillings and as of 2007 it has 18,000 employees. Transnational Corp. * RBC Centura (Pleasant Valley) * SciMetrika * Sicel Technologies, Inc. * Silicon Valley Bank * Snelling Staffing * Square 1 Bank * Suntrust Bank * The Leadership Trust * UNC (Universal Naming Convention) A standard for identifying servers, printers and other resources in a network, which originated in the Unix community. A UNC path uses double slashes or backslashes to precede the name of the computer. Kenan-Flagler Business School The Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill serves the community as a world-renowned business education institution. History * WRAL Local Tech Wire * Pankaj Agarwal * Joan W. Breeze * Mary Cantando * Suzanne Cantando * Tammy Carrea * Constance H. Childress * Hannah Clifford * Richard Daugherty * Robbie Hardy * Loren B. Harrell * Eric D. Johnson * Bonnie Layman * Kenneth B. Lee Kenneth B. Lee is a former Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Lee was first elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1957[1]. * Adrienne Lumpkin * Rajesh K. Malik, M.D. * Larry McAdams * Puffy McTiki * Scott Murray * Ashlyana Nizam * Jennifer Pierce * Donna Peek * James Rosen * Elizabeth Rudd * Glenn Seymour * Christy Shaffer * James R. Sponsler Jr. * Raymond Taylor * Kailas Thakker * Paul Ulanch * Glenn Weingarth About CED: The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) is a private, nonprofit organization Nonprofit Organization An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well. Notes: Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. 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 About the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina: The Food Bank of Eastern & Central North Carolina is a nonprofit organization that provides food for people at risk of hunger in 34 counties in central and eastern North Carolina. The Food Bank serves a network of more than 890 partner agencies offering soup kitchens, food pantries, shelters, and programs for children and adults. In fiscal year 2005-2006, the Food Bank distributed more than 31.4 million pounds of food and non-food essentials through these agencies. Sadly, hunger remains a serious problem in central and eastern North Carolina. In these counties, more than 400,000 struggle each day to provide enough food for their families. www.foodbankcenc.org |
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