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Heather McWhorter empowers individuals and communities to prosper through entrepreneurship, innovation, and sustainability. She is the Interim Director of the UNCW Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) and the Regional Director of the UNCW SBTDC. For information about how CIE connects, leverages, and ignites regional strengths and university expertise to create innovative and entrepreneurial solutions to global challenges, please visit uncw.edu/cie/.

By Christina Haley ONeal, posted Sometime in the future Girard and Tracey Newkirk Genesis Block has formed its board of advisers, which will provide strategic counsel on the company’s mission to build the entrepreneur class and lower barriers to entrepreneurship, according to a news release. The board will "further advance Genesis Block’s vision of being the anchor institution for minority and women business services and economic development in southeastern North Carolina,"...