Google helping SC nonprofits with with free AI training

By Mike Switzer

Published June 13, 2025 at 6:30 AM EDT

Mike Switzer, host of the South Carolina Business Review

In case you hadn’t heard, the company’s philanthropic arm of Google recently awarded a $1 million grant to our next guest’s organization to provide AI training to local nonprofits. Mike Switzer interviews Georgia Mjartan, president and CEO of the Central Carolina Community Foundation in Columbia, SC.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.

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