Welcome ELEVATE Cohort V!

April 3, 2025

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This week, ELEVATE, The Coalition’s executive leadership program for local small business owners, kicked off its fifth cohort with a virtual welcome and orientation. ELEVATE—short for Executive Leadership Education Venture Advancing Talented Entrepreneurs—provides top-tier training to DC-based business owners. The program helps them develop new skills to manage their products and services more effectively, ultimately driving revenue growth and job creation.

ELEVATE Cohort V is specifically designed to support businesses and business owners operating within the green economy, integrating sustainability practices, and driving environmental innovation.

 

Please join us in welcoming this next cohort into the Spring 2025 program!

Meet ELEVATE's Cohort V

Martha Ayalew Mar-sam LLC
Mar-Sam Solutions is a minority-certified, women-owned IT company specializing in AWS cloud computing, data architecture, and end-to-end IT solutions. They provide secure, scalable, and innovative technology solutions tailored to the needs of businesses and government agencies. They aim to help organizations streamline operations, enhance security, and drive digital transformation.
Rudolph Brown Stuff Haulers
Stuff Haulers is a passionate team of happy haulers and installers who take seriously our goals of helping our clients, one truckload at time. Our mission is to deliver customer excellent service utilizing sustainable practices to help reduce waste to help make the environment a better place.
Shenay Coley 1 Regal Enterprise, LLC
Regal Enterprise Home Improvement Company is a licensed General Contractor specializing in residential interior and exterior remodeling. Their expertise is in the trades of roofing, kitchen remodeling, bathroom remodeling, siding, windows, and decks. Regal Enterprise’s mission is to provide its customer with reliable service employing high standards of Value, Quality and Professionalism.
Kamau Donadelle Foundation Entertainment
Founded in 1998, FEAV is a Certified Business Enterprise (CBE) and minority-owned firm is a one-stop turnkey solution for our customers audio, visual and control system needs. FEAV designs and installs professional audio, video and control systems of highest quality for small to large-scale venues and events.
Alexes Haggins Flowers By Alexes
Locally owned, Flowers By Alexes LLC is the premier go-to florist in Washington, DC and beyond, offering the freshest flowers and most beautiful arrangements for every occasion. Flowers By Alexes LLC floral designers use their creative talent to share a love of flowers through great design, precise attention-to-detail and wonderfully fresh flowers. All of our florists at Flowers By Alexes LLC take great pleasure in crafting traditional and contemporary bouquets with plenty of room for customization and uniqueness.
Sherry Hooks Light Weight Technologies, LWT LLC
Light Weight Technologies enables businesses to stay competitive by providing the hardware and software and solutions needed to achieve optimal business performance.
JaLisa Johnson Virtual Emerging Technology Solutions
Virtual Emerging Technology Solutions (V-ETS), LLC is a minority, woman-owned Information Technology consulting firm, specialized in formulating IT Architecture Solutions. We are experts in designing, implementing, and managing solution engineering in relation to specific business problems. We introduce and lead the technical vision for the particular solution. We specialize in Cloud Migrations, Application Modernization around Emergency Managements, and Healthcare IT.
Gimari Jones Change Bridge
Change Bridge is deeply committed to driving improvements in education, healthcare, and technology—and they don’t stop there. Their team of dynamic experts in project management, technology, learning, and strategy bring experience across diverse industries. Change Bridge take pride in uncovering innovative, customized solutions designed to meet their client’s unique needs.
Tarsha Phillibert Liberty Procurement Solutions
Liberty Procurement specializes in providing office supplies, school products, furniture, and construction services tailored to the needs of government agencies. Liberty Procurement ensures that the services it provides are credible, fast, and affordable to support government organizations in their functioning.
William McAfee Sustainability Facilities Management Services (SFMS)
Sustainable Facilities Management Services (SFMS) is a socially and economically disadvantaged women-owned small business located in Washington, DC. SFMS provides fully integrated, holistic facilities management services to federal and local governments, commercial and industrial markets. Their green and sustainable operations and maintenance practices utilize policies, procedures, processes and standards to increase the efficiencies with which resources, energy, water and materials, are used while reducing building impacts on human health and the environment.
 

 

 

Andre Price Sustainability Facilities Management Services (SFMS)
Sustainable Facilities Management Services (SFMS) is a socially and economically disadvantaged women-owned small business located in Washington, DC. SFMS provides fully integrated, holistic facilities management services to federal and local governments, commercial and industrial markets. Their green and sustainable operations and maintenance practices utilize policies, procedures, processes and standards to increase the efficiencies with which resources, energy, water and materials, are used while reducing building impacts on human health and the environment.
Herman Wooden Angel Transportation
Angel Transportation is a Certified Business Enterprise (CBE) General Contractor licensed in the District of Columbia. They specialize in all areas of construction management and a range of self-performed construction trade services.
JocCole Burton SRGE, Construction Accelerator
SRGE is dedicated to building a more inclusive construction industry. Their services include providing access to resources; back office support, strategic guidance, estimating, technology procurement support, and compliance reporting. The SRGE construction accelerator employs cutting-edge technology that streamlines construction processes, expediting project timelines and increasing overall efficiency.

 

About ELEVATE

Launched in 2021, ELEVATE is the only executive education program in DC that is backed by a university partner. The 3-month ELEVATE curriculum, developed by the George Washington School of Business (GWSB) Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence, is led by GWSB faculty members.

The ELEVATE curriculum is tailored to enhance and cultivate new skills enabling small businesses to compete in the private, institutional, and government procurement sectors. Small business owners completing ELEVATE will leave the program with a newfound clarity and dynamism that will catapult their business to the next level.

ELEVATE and all of The Coalition’s Small Ecosystem Building work is made possible thanks to a generous contribution from the Truist Foundation.

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