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ACCION Chicago Honors Our Top Referral Partners

On June 18, 2010 ACCION Chicago honored our top referral partners with a lunch reception at Mundial Cocina Mestiza.  A special thanks to Steve Hall from Charter One Bank and Kip Read from American Chartered Bank for sponsoring this event.  In 2009, our 13 top referral partners referred over 80 loan applications to ACCION Chicago.  We are grateful to them for their continued support and advocacy.

2009 Micro-Entrepreneur Advocates

Adrienne Baker, Chase Bank

Gregg Baker, Charter One Bank

Jan Bauer, College of Lake County SBDC

Hussain Bhanpuri, Chicago Community Ventures

Ken Crite, Kankakee Community College SBDC

Alex Felton, Charter One Bank

Erica King, US Bank

Ivette Nouti, PNC Bank

Harriet Parker, Waubonsee Community College SBDC

Robert Rakstang, Centerpoint at Governors State University

Denise Spinell, Charter One Bank

Brian Stinton, SCORE Chicago

Roxane West, Chase Bank

For pictures from the luncheon, visit ACCION Chicago's Flickr page .