With big banks extending fewer loans to small businesses, community banks are emerging as the best hope for these businesses as they seek credit to help them grow and expand. Acknowledging the importa
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You own a small retail business and you plan major improvements to the premises. You apply for a loan at the bank you’ve been using for years. It’s the first time you’re applying for a loan but
The Cambodian proverb “When elephants battle, the ants perish” aptly describes the fight over health-care reform that many hope will transform the $2.6 trillion health care industry and provide co
Rampaging obesity and related illnesses in the African-American community have triggered calls for urgent action to halt their deadly advance. One Wednesday evening last November, a standing-room-
When auto industry experts told The Network Journal in last year’s report on the industry that businesses that had the foresight to prepare for the impending economic storm stood a better chance of
Until relatively recently, only the technologically savvy, curious and ultrasophisticated human resources professional was comfortable with online recruitment. Today, online recruiting is an indispens
At CareerNation’s 2009 Africa Brain Gain Conference, two panelists representing health services organizations openly vied for the attention of a job candidate with a master’s degree in public heal
At the Eighth Annual Black Women on Wall Street gathering, held July 14 at the Bank of America Tower in New York City, a panel of successful women in finance, services and sports gave tips to an audie
On Aug. 20, President Obama proclaimed Aug. 23–29 “Minority Enterprise Develop-ment Week, paying tribute to the 4 million or so minority-owned firms in the country that “create jobs, develop new
One month before the National Black Chamber of Commerce opened its 17th annual convention in Washington, D.C., Harry C. Alford, the chamber’s co-founder, president and CEO, sent out an eBlast in whi