The University of Virginia's Tayloe Murphy Center at the Darden School  has issued a Call for Entries for the Tayloe Murphy Resilience Awards Competition.  Applicants can include successful entrepreneurs in manufacturing, retail, service, and wholesale.

Qualifying applicants must demonstrate:

• 5 years of sustained growth across a number of metrics;
• Evidence of economic uplift in their local community;
• That they are operating in the most economically challenged communities within the Commonwealth of Virginia (go to www.resilienceawards.info to see if your community is eligible).

Winning firms will receive scholarship funding to a select Darden Executive Education Program along with networking opportunities and recognition.

The competition opens April 1st and the application deadline is June 30th, 2010.

Finalists will be notified in July and will be required to submit relevant tax forms.

Questions? Contact Tayloe Murphy Center's Associate Director, Marc Johnson at 434.982.4527, or send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

For more information visit www.resilienceawards.info