Entrepreneurial venture helps nonprofit thrive | Business | NewsObserver.com: She called the nonprofit the Above and Beyond Learning Center and operated out of an empty building behind a Charlotte church.
Fourteen years later, Blackmon, 52, oversees a program that has grown exponentially. Above and Beyond now has four sites, 54 employees and hundreds of children who spend their after-school time in a nurturing environment where school work is made fun, attendance is rewarded with field trips, and activities such as cooking, chess and choir are championed.
But what's earning her program state-level attention and praise is the organization's latest development: a for-profit arm.
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