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Representatives of Central Carolina Community College, Verizon Wireless, and local agencies who work with survivors of domestic violence gathered Oct. 17 at the college's Lee County Campus for the kickoff of the Open Doors Domestic Violence Entrepreneurship Program. Verizon awarded the college's Small Business Center a $12,000 grant to work with survivors of domestic violence in starting their own small businesses. The program, which will launch in early 2014, is a collaboration among the SBC offices in Chatham, Harnett and Lee counties and the agencies which serve victims of domestic violence in those counties. Pictured (from left) are Belinda Johnson, shelter manager for SAFE of Harnett County; Kathy Hodges, executive director, Family Violence and Rape Crisis Services, in Chatham County; Greg Currie, Verizon Wireless associate director of Business Sales-North Carolina; Mike Jones, CCCC Small Business Center director; Carol Carlson, board chair of Haven in Lee County; Bernetta Thigpen, director for the N.C. Council for Women's Northern Piedmont Region; and CCCC President, Dr. Bud Marchant.

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Central Carolina Community College Small Business Center Director Mike Jones addresses the Oct. 17 gathering at the college's Lee County Campus for the kickoff of the Open Doors Domestic Violence Entrepreneurship Program. Verizon awarded the college a $12,000 grant to work with survivors of domestic violence in starting their own small businesses. The program, which will launch in early 2014, is a collaboration among the SBC offices in Chatham, Harnett and Lee counties and the agencies which serve victims of domestic violence in those counties.

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Greg Currie, Verizon Wireless associate director of Business Sales-North Carolina, addresses the Oct. 17 gathering at Central Carolina Community College's Lee County Campus for the kickoff of the Open Doors Domestic Violence Entrepreneurship Program. Verizon awarded the college a $12,000 grant to work with survivors of domestic violence in starting their own small businesses. The program, which will launch in early 2014, is a collaboration among the SBC offices in Chatham, Harnett and Lee counties and the agencies which serve victims of domestic violence in those counties.

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Bernetta Thigpen, director for the N.C. Council for Women's Northern Piedmont Region, addresses the Oct. 17 gathering at Central Carolina Community College's Lee County Campus for the kickoff of the Open Doors Domestic Violence Entrepreneurship Program. Verizon awarded the college a $12,000 grant to work with survivors of domestic violence in starting their own small businesses. The program, which will launch in early 2014, is a collaboration among the SBC offices in Chatham, Harnett and Lee counties and the agencies which serve victims of domestic violence in those counties.