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Ne-Yo bringing entrepreneurial boot camp to CAU

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July 12, 2011

Grammy-award winning singer and producer Ne-Yo will be at Clark Atlanta University this week hosting his foundation’s “Future CEO Academy,” aimed at kids in the state’s foster care and group home systems.

Starting Thursday, 50 teenagers selected by the Georgia Department of Human services will participate in a three-day entrepreneurship boot camp, led by a team of entrepreneurs, faculty members and local officials. Each student is expected to finish the program with a workable business plan.

Students will attend classes on business, intellectual property law, idea pitching and presentation skills.

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Ernie Suggs is an enterprise reporter covering race and culture for the AJC since 1997. A 1990 graduate of N.C. Central University and a 2009 Harvard University Nieman Fellow, he is also the former vice president of the National Association of Black Journalists. His obsession with Prince, Spike Lee movies, Hamilton and the New York Yankees is odd.

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