Saturday, June 14, 2025...

WOW! OPERATION: SEED, INC. had an amazingly wonderful day celebrating our 2025 Emerging Entrepreneur, Miss Madison Jones (also known as: Miss Dudley 2025/2026)! Madison is a creative apparel design artist and her business is: Rose Creations! Madison, her mother, and her twin brother joined us at the Greensboro Public Library - Benjamin Branch Library so that we could recognize her accomplishments, present her with a certificate of achievement, laptop and accessories, backpack, learning resources, items from her $500 Seed Investment Wish List to elevate her business (she is already modeling wisdom in her business acumen - she kept part of the Seed money in reserve with us for future needs), and a personalized cake! We were very honored to have Mr. Christopher Snead, James B. Dudley High School Career and College and CTE Administrator, accept our invitation to join us! Mr. Snead not only gave pertinent guidance and offered critical connections and availability to Madison for her upcoming year at Dudley High School…but he also did the same for her brother! His commitment to and concern for the students and their success is always evident and sincere! We truly appreciate how Mr. Snead, Mrs. Donahue-Wright (Communities In Schools Site Coordinator), and Ms. Wooden (Lead CTE Teacher/FBLA Advisor), and others at Dudley, have welcomed us in and championed for O.S.I. throughout this year! We look forward to returning in the Fall of 2025! Please join us in congratulating Madison; and stay tuned for new developments as she continues to engage with our SEEDS FOR SUCCESS ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE INITIATIVE!

 

An enormous “THANK YOU!” to all of our grantors and individual supporters! We appreciate you! We are humbled by Madison and her family…it is not a small thing to be entrusted with someone else’s dream!

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Sincerely,

Teresa Gilliard, Board Chair; Denise Little, Treasurer; Karen Moore, Assistant Treasurer; Ebony Gilliard, Secretary

Chandler Price, Educational System Subject Matter Expert; Bernadette Potts, Executive Director and Founder