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Mural Unveiled At Wells Fargo West End Location

The event was held Friday morning.

 
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Wells Fargo Mural Celebrates African-American Colleges
Clark Atlanta graduate student Tversa Ricks, center, points out a section of the newly unveiled mural depicting Atlanta’s historically black colleges and universities at the Wells Fargo West End University bank store. Professor Ed Davis of Clark Atlanta University, former business school dean, and MBA student Jeffrey Muiru look on. The students took part in the recent business plan competition of the Opportunity Funding Corporation, which received a $145,000 gift from Wells Fargo at the event to create a fund to get businesses proposed in the competition become a reality. Allison Church
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Atlanta City Council Member Michael Julian Bond, Wells Fargo Atlanta Regional President Mike Donnelly, Beth Currie with Wells Fargo, Morehouse College President Dr. Robert Franklin and Morris Brown College President Dr. Stanley Pritchett unveil the new mural at the West End University bank store in Atlanta. To mark the occasion, Wells Fargo made a $145,000 gift to the Opportunity Funding Corporation to help create jobs and businesses in the African-American community. Credit Alison Church
(From Left): Clark Atlanta MBA student Jeffrey Muiru and graduate student Tversa Ricks watch as Professor Ed Davis with Clark Atlanta University and Bill Clement (far right), chairman of the Opportunity Funding Corporation, receive a $145,000 grant from Wells Fargo Atlanta Regional President Mike Donnelly (second from right). The money will start a new fund to create jobs and businesses in the African-American community. The presentation followed the unveiling of the company’s newest mural, which celebrates the history of Clark Atlanta and Morehouse, Spelman and Morris Brown colleges. Credit Alison Church
Clark Atlanta graduate student Tversa Ricks, center, points out a section of the newly unveiled mural depicting Atlanta’s historically black colleges and universities at the Wells Fargo West End University bank store. Professor Ed Davis of Clark Atlanta University, former business school dean, and MBA student Jeffrey Muiru look on. The students took part in the recent business plan competition of the Opportunity Funding Corporation, which received a $145,000 gift from Wells Fargo at the event to create a fund to get businesses proposed in the competition become a reality. Credit Allison Church
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Wells Fargo's West End bank location was the site of an unveiling of a new mural celebrating the contributions of Atlanta's African-American colleges and universities.

The event was held Friday morning, and coincided with the announcment of a new business fund that is designed to create jobs and small businesses in the African-American community.

The fund is getting its start with a $145,000 gift from Wells Fargo to the non-profit Opportunity Funding Corporation. Wells Fargo said that money from the fund, which the is expected to grow with more private gifts, will go to promising new businesses coming out of an annual business plan competition among historically black colleges and universities that the Opportunity Funding Corporation holds every year in Atlanta.

 
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M Jackson

7:08 am on Saturday, April 28, 2012

I expected better pics of the mural itself. One more wide angle to show itinerant its entirety would have been perfect.

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