Urban Strategic Enterprises is a California micro-business/SBE firm, #1127520
NAIC: 601036, 801015, 801415, 801416, 931415, 931417, 941015 |
Tate Hill
Tate Hill is the Owner/Chief Strategist of Urban Strategic Enterprises. He started the company in 2008, after working as the Central Valley Vice President for Youth Leadership Institute, where he managed nearly a dozen staff and seven programs throughout Fresno County. Hill is the Director of Administration of Access Plus Capital, a certified community development financial institution that offers financing, training, and asset development services for low- and moderate-income entrepreneurs through central California. Access Plus serves 14-county region in central California and is a subsidiary of Fresno Economic Opportunities Commission (Fresno EOC), one of the largest community action agencies in the country. At Access Plus, Tate is responsible for fund development, investor relations, fund & grant compliance, special projects and public relations. As the former president & CEO of the Fresno Metro Black Chamber of Commerce, he has an extensive network of businesses and service providers throughout the Central Valley and established regional programs including the Central Valley Business Diversity Partnership, the Women’s Entrepreneurship Network and the Fresno Green Team's green business certification program. Under his tenure, he created the region's only and longest standing supplier diversity conference, the Central Valley Business Diversity Expo attracting 15-20 local, statewide and private sector corporations and agencies. He serves the community as a board member of the Greenlining Institute and the Fresno County Office of Education Foundation and in various advisory capacities including the Mayor’s Advisory Council and the Southwest Fresno Specific Plan Committee. He holds an M.S. in Community Economic Development from Southern New Hampshire University and a bachelors of science in business administration- finance from California State University Fresno. Community Involvement: (2019- ) DRIVE Intative- Fresno Region, Exectuive Committee (2009- ) Mayor’s Community Advisory Panel (Ashley Swearengin and Lee Brand) (2017-2019) Fresno Transformative Climate Communities, Steering Committee (2016-2017) City of Fresno-Southwest Specific Plan Committee, Member (2009-2016 ) Fresno Metro Black Chamber of Commerce, president (2010-2016 ) Fresno Metro Black Chamber Foundation, founder & president (2014-2016) Pacific Gas & Electric, Community Advisory Council (2010-2016) California Black Chamber- Council of Chambers, Vice Chair (2012-2016) US Black Chambers Inc- President's Advisory Council, Member (2004-2010) Creative Fresno, (founding chair, 2005-06) Strategic Design & Marketing (SDM) Partners: Truth Branding | Dumont Printing | Butler Branding |