Orlando’s OC Grant Consulting Offers New Series of Classes to Help Faith- and Community-Based Organizations Attain Non-Profit Status

ORLANDO – Olivette Carter, owner of OC Grant Consulting Associates, will conduct the next in a Spring series of seminars on attaining non-profit status and grant funding Saturday May 8, at the University of Central Florida Business Incubator-Orlando.

The session, titled “Board Development for New Non-Profits,” will be held from 9 a.m. to noon at 3218 E. Colonial Drive.

OC Grant Consulting is a client company of the University of Central Florida Business Incubation Program, one of the program’s eight business incubators throughout the Central Florida area.
Designed for executives, administrators, managers and other leaders of aspiring or new start-up grassroots organizations, the series began earlier this month with “How to Start a Non-Profit and Obtain 501(c)3 Status” seminar.

Additional Saturday seminars are: “Program Design and Planning,” May 15; and “Introduction to Grant Writing,” May 22.

The cost of each class is $35.00. To register, call 321-281-8346 or go on-line at ocgrantconsulting.com. Please resister by the Wednesday prior to each seminar.

For more information about this release, please contact:
Olivette Carter, owner, OC Grant Counseling, 321-281-8346 or ocgrants@obdc2.fdn.com; Henriette Schoen, UCFBI-Orlando site manager, 321-281-8383, hschoen@mail.ucf.edu; Gordon Hogan, director of operations, UCF Business Incubation Program, 407-882-1157; ghogan@mail.ucf.edu; Charlene Hager-Van Dyke, Larry Vershel Communications, 386-532-8862, 407-644-4142; Lvershelco@aol.com or chagervandyke@yahoo.com

About the UCF Business Incubation Program: Since its founding in 1999, the UCF Business Incubation Program has helped more than 140 emerging companies (including 90 current clients) create over $800 million in annual revenue and more than 1,600 new jobs with an average salary of $59,000. With eight facilities across the Greater Orlando community, the Incubation Program is a collaboration in economic development between the University of Central Florida, Orange County, the City of Orlando, Seminole County, the City of Winter Springs, City of Sanford, Lake County, the City of Leesburg, Osceola County, The City of St. Cloud and the Florida High Tech Corridor Council. For more information, please visit www.incubator.ucf.edu.