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CUP not only introduces you to inspiring leaders but helps you to become one, offers you the opportunity to give back to your community, gives you access to capital to grow your business, and connects you to like‐minded people so that we can all be more powerful.
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Encouraging Diversity
CUP secures strategic board and career placements for our highly motivated and qualified members.
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Access to Capital
Creating and expanding minority and women business opportunities is key to the growth and vitality of our economy.
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Empowering Leaders
CUP prepares talented, visionary minority and women professionals to become powerful civic and political leaders through our Fellows program.
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- A network of minority and women professionals
- A community of emerging and distinguished leaders
- Resources to strengthen your business
- Inspiring colleagues and mentors
- Bold new career opportunities
- The chance to lead in your community
Ryan Moorehead – CUP Leadership Board Spotlight- Jan. 2012
What is your occupation and how did you come to work in this field? I am Vice President of Asset Management & Business Development for First Sterling Financial, Inc. First Sterling is a nationally recognized syndicator of affordable housing, which has been in business for over 30 years. We structure real estate transactions by bringing togetherread more
Christine Quinn, Speaker of the New York City Council – Public Sector Spotlight – Dec. 2011
1. What motivated you to get into politics? Public service was the only thing that ever really interested me. I don’t remember wanting to do anything else. At St. Patrick’s elementary school library on Long Island, where I grew up, there was a rack of paperback biographies of trailblazing figures, and I read themread more
DeWayne Louis – CUP Fellow Spotlight – December 2011
What is your occupation and how did you come to work in this field? I am currently a principle within the hedge fund group of Investcorp, a $13 billion alternative asset management firm. I joined Investcorp in 2005 at the inception of the Firm’s North American and European hedge fund distribution business. As aread more
Whitney Tilson – CUP Member Spotlight- Jan. 2012
What is your occupation and how did you come to work in this field? I’m a value investor and run three different businesses related to this, with three different partners: money management (via three hedge funds and two mutual funds); two investment newsletters, Value Investor Insight and SuperInvestor Insight; and a conference business, the Valueread more
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Safe Horizon – Nonprofit Partner Spotlight – Jan. 2012