BUSINESS BRIEFS

Youth Entrepreneurs Georgia (YEGeorgia) recently launched its Chairman’s Circle, a major giving society for business and community leaders committed to making entrepreneurship education a philanthropic priority across the Atlanta area and the state of Georgia. YEGeorgia launched in 2006 with 38 students at two Atlanta public high schools – Benjamin E. Mays and Maynard Jackson. Today it is offered to about 360 students a year in 13 middle and high schools in the city of Atlanta and Cobb, DeKalb and Gwinnett counties. Plans are underway to expand the program into more cities, counties and classrooms, with a goal of serving 1,000 students a year by 2020. Membership in YEGeorgia’s Chairman’s Circle is open to individuals and small businesses investing $2,500, $5,000 or $10,000, and to corporations and foundations contributing $10,000, $25,000 or $50,000. Donations made during 2016 will earn each the distinction of being “founding members” of the Chairman’s Circle.

A recent reception at the Center for Civil and Human Rights, which featured Youth Entrepreneurs creator Elizabeth Koch, also highlighted YEGeorgia’s 10-year growth from a Georgia-Pacific project to an independent nonprofit organization that has impacted more than 2,000 students. For more information visit yegeorgia.org.

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Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs Inc. (ACE) , a nonprofit community development financial institution, has opened a new office at Flatiron City, 84 Peachtree St. in Downtown’s Flatiron building. ACE helps grow sustainable small businesses in Georgia by providing access to capital, business coaching and community connections. For more information, visit www.aceloans.org.

WeWork , a co-working space, has opened in Buckhead at 3365 Piedmont Road. WeWork Buckhead offers private offices, individual desks plus spaces for large corporations, and indoor and outdoor community event space. For more information, visit wework.com/Buckhead.

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Phipps Plaza in Buckhead has announced that Philipp Plein will open a store in the mall this Setpember, offering clothing and accessories for men, women and kids. Also just opened is maternity wear and accessories shop A Pea in the Pod . Across Peachtree Road at Lenox Square , Britishbased Ted Baker London will open this fall offering sophisticated menswear, womenswear and accessories.

TechSquare Labs has announced it will be joining the Google for Entrepreneurs global community, bringing Google’s resources to startups in the Southeast. It also becomes the program’s sole tech hub partner in Atlanta and one of only 26 in the world. Joining the Tech Hub

Network allows TechSquare Labs to connect startup communities and local entrepreneurs across more than 125 countries, from Chicago to London to Shanghai. The Midtown innovation and startup entrepreneurship hub will open its 25,000-square-foot space to