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A few of the Beaver Street Enterprise Center successes Dr. Lee shared with the more than 100 guests in attendance were the Center’s $80,615,285 cumulative revenues generated by client-tenants since 2003 and that BSEC was named the International Business Incubator of the Year in 2010 by National Association of Business Incubators. Additional panelist speaking at the symposium were Joshua DuBois, Executive Director, White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships; Marie Johnson, Deputy Administrator, Small Business Administration; John Frenandez, Assistant Secretary, Economic Development Administration, Department of Commerce; Roberta Gassman, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Employment and Training Administration, Department of Labor; Doug O’Brien, Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development, Department of Agriculture; and Tricia Kerney-Willis, Manager, CDFI Fund Office of Training and Outreach, Department of the Treasury. For more information, please contact Pam Kearney, FreshMinistries: 904-355-0000 or email
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FreshMinistries founder and CEO, The Rev. Dr. Robert V. Lee III, served as a guest panelist at yesterday’s White House White House Symposium on Faith-Based Initiatives in Job Creation held at the White House. The symposium, hosted by the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, offered representatives of faith-based and non-profit organizations in attendance insightful information on how to find, and apply for, the numerous grants offered by governmental agencies working to stimulate job creation. Citing the incredible successes of the Beaver Street Enterprise Center, a FreshMinistries initiative and the state of Florida’s only core-city business incubator, Dr. Lee shared his experiences with working in partnership with the Government to create the award winning business incubator. In 2003, FreshMinistries secured the incubator’s construction funding from the Economic Development Administration (EDA) and was recently granted additional EDA funding for the incubator’s expansion, due to be completed in February 2012. 
