September 29, 2005

Founder of Storytelling Center Plots New Opportunities for His Charity

By Marilyn Dickey

Johnson City, Tenn.

It's 7:30 a.m. and Jimmy Neil Smith is sitting in a booth at an IHOP restaurant here. Dressed in a casual suit topped by a bolo tie, he is meeting two longtime friends, businessmen who teach a course together in entrepreneurship at East Tennessee State University. The three are getting together at this early hour so Mr. Smith can ask their advice about something that has been nagging at him: how he can get his nonprofit group to

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