Sarah Ford | April 29, 2014

Thurgood Marshall College Fund and Opportunity Funding Corporation Announces Winners of 2014 HBCU Business Plan Competition

Washington, DC – (April 14, 2014) The Opportunity Funding Corporation (OFC), a division of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, selected the winners of its 2014 Business Plan Competition, announced OFC President M. Scott Lilly. The three-day Competition, held in Atlanta was designed to provide collegiate entrepreneurs a real world experience that included conceiving a business plan and presenting those plans to a panel of judges.

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