Entrepreneurship and Non Profits

Published: July 27, 2022, 8:13 a.m.

Entrepreneurship and Non Profits \xa0 This week on Inspired with Bell \xa0 Armand King is a serial entrepreneur. He is the cofounder of the successful nonprofit 'Paving Great Futures'. With his lead, he was able to take his nonprofit from a budget of 0 to a multi-million dollar establishment. He is a published author and keynote speaker. King\u2019s guidance helps build the organisation\u2019s capacity through gaining substantial relationships and fund development. \xa0 He has over 20 years of experience building startup businesses, learning from his first hand experiences on what should be done and not be done to have a successful business. Although this is him now, his past wasn't easy. \xa0 He was born and raised in an impoverished community where he began his early years as a homeless youth, being involved in numerous toxic lifestyle activities. After losing several of his closest friends to the streets he turned his pain into passion to help others. \xa0 He has spent the last half decade speaking and training many people, companies, and institutions about awareness and prevention of gangs, drugs, and domestic human sex trafficking as well as helping to design programs that help guide youth from falling into these toxic lifestyles.