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Converting Conversations to Contracts is a trade show style event focusing on helping organizations increase spending with minority owned businesses.
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Genesis Block Labs is a professional services company driven by a mission to advance entrepreneurship in communities block by block. Genesis Block Labs operates three brands to advance entrepreneurship and small business growth.

Block Report: MED Week Edition 2023

The Block Report is here! In preparation for our Converting Conversations to Contracts event this Saturday, take a sneak peek at this year’s impressive lineup of speakers, hear from our sponsors, and explore the vendors and booths of diverse-owned businesses that will be present. Join us as we bring together some of the largest businesses and organizations in the region with diverse-owned businesses, creating opportunities for contracting and promoting diversity in the supply chain.

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Workshops to Elevate Your Business Opportunities at our Conversations to Contracts MED Week Event

Join us on October 14, 2023, at CFCC Union Station (U) Building for our Minority Enterprise Development Week edition of Conversations to Contracts! This event offers a variety of workshops that cater to all attendees and provide valuable insights.

Enhance your business knowledge, skills, and opportunities by attending a series of informative workshops. Gain an in-depth understanding of Novant Health’s Supplier Diversity, learn about getting started in the trucking industry, working with the North Carolina Department of Transportation, and so much more!

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Converting Conversations To Contracts
Converting Conversations to Contracts is a trade show style event focusing on helping organizations increase spending with minority owned businesses.
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Genesis Block Foundation
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Jump Start Achademy
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Block Report: MED Week Edition 2023

The Block Report is here! In preparation for our Converting Conversations to Contracts event this Saturday, take a sneak peek at this year’s impressive lineup of speakers, hear from our sponsors, and explore the vendors and booths of diverse-owned businesses that will be present. Join us as we bring together some of the largest businesses and organizations in the region with diverse-owned businesses, creating opportunities for contracting and promoting diversity in the supply chain.

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Converting Conversations To Contracts
Converting Conversations to Contracts is a trade show style event focusing on helping organizations increase spending with minority owned businesses.
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Genesis Block Foundation
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Programs
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Jump Start Achademy
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Accelerator Program
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Ambassadors Needed
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Genesis Block Labs is a professional services company driven by a mission to advance entrepreneurship in communities block by block. Genesis Block Labs operates three brands to advance entrepreneurship and small business growth.

Mission

To advance entrepreneurship and small business growth in communities block by block.

Values

  • Community

  • Collaboration

  • Creativity

Vision

To leverage entrepreneurship as a bridge to economic prosperity and social reconciliation.

Who We Are

Genesis Block Labs is a professional services company driven by a mission to advance entrepreneurship in communities block by block. Genesis Block Labs operates three brands to advance entrepreneurship and small business growth.

Mission

To advance entrepreneurship and small business growth in communities block by block

Vision

To leverage entrepreneurship as a bridge to economic prosperity and social reconciliation

Values

  • Community
  • Collaboration
  • Creativity

Block Eatz

BLOCK EATZ

Block Eatz is a food hall incubator aimed at supporting local food entrepreneurs with marketing, entrepreneur training and a high traffic retail environment to strengthen their ventures. Block Eatz helps local and diverse owned businesses lower their start up costs and provides a more predictable foot traffic pattern with the location being at the McKeithan Center on the north campus of Cape Fear Community College.

Genesis Block Academy

GENESIS BLOCK ACADEMY

Genesis Block Academy is designed to support early stage startups, community entrepreneurs, diverse owned businesses and local small business owners with the development of sustainable business models. Genesis Block Academy offers three curriculum based training programs; Block Basics, Jumpstart Academy and Wits Begin Incubator. The academy also offers a Digital Learning Campus that can be accessible globally.

Genesis Bridge

GENESIS BRIDGE

Genesis Bridge is a supplier diversity platform providing solutions to simplify  sourcing, supply chain management and sustainability reporting. The aim is to streamline the procurement process for large organizations and give diverse owned businesses access to greater transaction opportunities.

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Meet
The Founders

Girard Newkirk is a technology entrepreneur Founder and CEO of KWHCoin and Genesis Block..

Girard is a native of Pender County and moved back to the Wilmington area by way of San Jose, California in November of 2018 with a mission to bring technology and entrepreneurship to his native community.

In 2019, KWHCoin won the Coastal Entrepreneur Awards Emerging Company for the company’s work on combining renewable energy and technology. He serves on the boards of the Cape Fear Economic Development Committee, Cape Fear Collective, and Cape Fear Community College Information Technology Committee.

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What’s in it for you?
Ambassadors will play a major role in helping with the success of our
events by assisting with the organizing, marketing, and operations
necessary for the success of our events.
This is a great opportunity for you to connect with a diverse segment of
our community and to collaborate and create a sense of community and
belonging.

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