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ATLANTA, GA — On Thursday, January 18, the Cherokee Office of Economic Development (COED) named Jim Bulger as the second annual North Atlanta Venture Mentoring Service (NAV) Mentor of the Year Award. The NAV program offers team-based mentoring, as principled and...

American Pillar Growers Graduates from NAV On a crisp evening in 2015, Clint Ober looks out over a sea of forgotten trees and sees a genius project that just needs a little love – a dream he will soon adopt as his own. Clint Ober with American Pillar Growers is...

The North Atlanta Venture Mentoring Service (NAV) is proud to announce the graduation of Alma Coffee! Alma will be the program’s first venture to graduate and transition from mentee to mentor this fall.   Leticia and Harry Hutchins began Alma Coffee in The...

On Thursday, January 19, the Cherokee Office of Economic Development (COED) announced the first North Atlanta Venture Mentoring Service (NAV) Mentor of the Year Award.   NAV is a program made possible through the Cherokee By Choice initiative – a five-year...

Mentorship is a two-way street, but with the North Atlanta Venturing Mentoring Program (NAV) – it’s a multiple-lane highway. Tucked along a short 1.5 mile stretch on Highway 5 in Holly Springs are two rockstar businesses that have taken the NAV program by storm:...

The Cherokee Office of Economic Development (COED) announced the launch of the North Atlanta Venture Mentoring Service (NAV) today at The Circuit Woodstock to an engaged audience of Cherokee locals and community leaders. Headquartered in Cherokee, NAV represents...

Our team at the Cherokee Office of Economic Development (COED) recently launched our newest entrepreneurship initiative, the North Atlanta Venture Mentoring Service (NAV). Headquartered in Cherokee County, NAV is the first of its kind in the state of Georgia. The...