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University of Virginia - Tayloe Murphy Resilience Awards Competition
March 4, 2010
The University of Virginia’s Tayloe Murphy Center at the Darden School
announces the Tayloe Murphy Resilience Awards Competition
Call for Entries
Successful entrepreneurs in:
- manufacturing;
- retail;
- service
- wholesale.
Qualifying applicants must demonstrate:
- 5 years of sustained growth across a number of metrics;
- Evidence of economic uplift in their local community;
- That they are operating in the most economically challenged communities within the Commonwealth of Virginia (go to: www.resilienceawards.info to see if your community is eligible).
Winning firms will receive scholarship funding to a select Darden Executive Education Program along with networking opportunities and recognition.
Go to: www.resilienceawards.info to see if your community is eligible.
The competition opens April 1st and the application deadline is June 30th, 2010.
Finalists will be notified in July and will be required to submit relevant tax forms.
Awards Celebration Dinner to be held September 1, 2010, in the historic Dome Room of the University of Virginia’s Rotunda – sharing ideas, stories and humor highly encouraged.
Questions? Contact Tayloe Murphy Center’s Associate Director, Marc Johnson: 434.982.4527, or send an email to tayloemurphyawards@darden.virginia.edu.
Businesses may apply each year, but may only win the scholarship funding once.
Why not make this your year?
Good Luck,
Tayloe Murphy Center FOR MORE INFORMATION, GO TO: www.resilienceawards.info
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