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Powering One Supplier’s Success Story
W hen Mark Wilson sees an old, committing to spend $3 billion in black
empty mall in an underserved
communities by the end of 2020.
community, he looks past its “The support that AT&T is willing to
shuttered stores, vacant parking lots and give to diverse-owned companies like
WE HAVE A GOAL
abandoned food courts, and sees ours is critically important and can be “ Intro Employees Communities Customers Content Suppliers Awards
its potential.
transformative,” Wilson says. He says that’s RIGHT NOW AS A
Wilson started his Atlanta-based call especially true because AT&T sticks around.
center service, Chime Solutions, with two Having worked with Wilson for over two
intentions: Provide excellent customer decades now, we’ve been able to make a COMPANY OF TRYING
service and create jobs in underserved lasting impact on his company.
communities. To best position his Because of the clout that comes from TO CREATE 10,000
company to fulfill that mission, he got partnering with a Fortune 500 company
creative in choosing a site for his business, like AT&T, Wilson says his business has JOBS AROUND THE
repurposing an old, empty shopping grown at a healthy rate. For Chime
mall in South Atlanta – an area with Solutions, that means expansion to Mark Wilson U.S., AND WE CAN
historically high unemployment rates – new cities across America, and more CEO, Chime Solutions
and transforming it into a state-of-the-art jobs in underserved black and brown ONLY GET THAT DONE
call center. “The whole idea was to try to neighborhoods. The company has already 64
bring life back into the community,” he transformed another abandoned shopping
says. “And we have created about 1,500 mall in Dallas, and an office park with mall- WITH RELATIONSHIPS
jobs so far.”
like qualities in Charlotte. LIKE THE ONE WE
Many of those 1,500 jobs are the result of “We have a goal right now as a company
AT&T’s partnership with Chime Solutions. of trying to create 10,000 jobs around the HAVE WITH AT&T.” AT&T D&I Annual Report 2019
For more than 50 years, AT&T has invested U.S., and we can only get that done with
in small businesses and minority-owned relationships like the one we have
companies. And we’re not stopping any with AT&T.”
time soon. We’re ramping up support by
