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PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS COMMITS $100,000 TO CED
April 2, 2002, Research Triangle Park, NC - PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP has pledged $100,000 to the Council for Entrepreneurial Development's (CED) Innovation to Impact campaign. CED is seeking to raise $3 million for the five-year initiative.
Other current $100,000 investors to Innovation to Impact include: Bank of America; Comerica Incorporated; Daniels & Daniels, P.A; Ernst & Young, LLP; Gray Ventures, Inc.; Hutchison & Mason PLLC; Intersouth Partners; Kennedy Covington Lobdell & Hickman, L.L.P.; Kilpatrick Stockton LLP; Maupin Taylor & Ellis, P.A.; RBC Centura; Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan, LLP; Smith Helms Mulliss & Moore, L.L.P.; Southeast Interactive Technology Funds; US Trust; Wachovia; Wakefield Group L.P.; Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC; and Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP.
"PricewaterhouseCoopers' generous pledge demonstrates incredible leadership and vision for entrepreneurs," said Monica Doss, CED president. "While PwC's financial contributions to CED have been significant, the firm's contributions including Jeff Barber serving as CED Chairman during a critical time in CED's history have been above and beyond."
"CED is and has been critical to the entrepreneurial success of the region, and is truly one of the driving forces for local technology-based start-ups," said Jeff Barber, managing partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers' Raleigh office. "We've enjoyed a close working relationship with CED and look forward to supporting the continued success of CED for a long time to come."
Through Innovation to Impact, CED will embark on the following:
- Provide a wider and deeper set of services in the areas of management and leadership development, especially to companies farther along in their life cycles.
- Engage government, civic, academic, corporate and technology organizations for both the delivery of entrepreneur-oriented services and programs and for regional positioning, promotion, and message-shaping.
- Expand the pipeline of potential high-growth companies by actively encouraging their development in traditionally under-represented areas and groups.
About PricewaterhouseCoopers
PricewaterhouseCoopers provides independent, objective accounting, auditing,
tax and business advice to global and local clients in more than 150 countries.
PricewaterhouseCoopers refers to the member firms of the worldwide PricewaterhouseCoopers
organization. Visit PwC's Web site at www.pwcglobal.com.
About CED
The Council for Entrepreneurial Development, located in Research Triangle Park,
NC, is a private, non-profit organization formed in 1984 to stimulate the creation
and growth of high-impact companies in the greater Research Triangle region.
CED provides education, mentoring and capital formation resources to new and
existing high-growth entrepreneurs through annual conferences, seminars, workshops
and monthly programs on entrepreneurial management and finance. CED is the largest
entrepreneurial support organization in the nation with more than 5,000 members
representing 1,200 entrepreneurial companies, financiers and professional firms.
Visit CED's Web site at www.cednc.org.