Recent Grants

Bunker Hill Community College, MA
$5,000 to support the Community Center for Entrepreneurship designed to promote understanding and growth of entrepreneurship opportunities across disciplines and includes students, faculty, workforce development and administration.

Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education, OH
$72,000 to support the Entrepreneurship Education Forum, November 7-11, 2008 by providing scholarships for educators and a grant award program in which educators compete in an elevator grant session for funding to support entrepreneurship activities at their schools.

Chemeketa Community College, OR
$7,500 to support Business Success Teams, a peer advising group that assists small business owners through the Microenterprises Resources Initiatives and Training program.

Colorado Mountain College, CO
$5,000 to initiate, develop and host a conference on best practices for teaching entrepreneurship for educators from secondary and post-secondary schools as well as practicing entrepreneurs.

Dakota County Technical College, MN
$3,600 to create the Sounding Board, a networking and continuing education program for local women entrepreneurs.

Edmonds Community College, WA
$5,000 to assist with curriculum development and marketing for a program to develop workshops for business owners which combines technology awareness in business planning in conjunction with the Small Business Development Center.

Harrisburg Area Community College, PA
$7,500 to expand Women's Talkabouts, networking sessions for women entrepreneurs, to new geographies, and to establish the First Friday weekly walk-in support program.

Indian River Community College (IRCC), FL
$7,500 to expand the Lunch & Learn Series, a partnership with the IRCC Incubator, Martin and Indian River County Economic Council to assist entrepreneurs and local business owners to grasp the realities and overcome challenges of business ownership.

Illinois Institute for Entrepreneurship Education, IL
$5,000 to support scholarships for 2008 Youth Entrepreneurship Conference which provides an opportunity for high school students to present and compete in business plan competitions and gain industry specific knowledge for new business creation.

Lehigh Carbon Community College, OH
$5,000 to expand the Self-Employment Assistance Program model for noncredit entrepreneurship education programming and infuse it throughout the credit curricula.

Kingsborough Community College, NY
$15,000 to support development of an entrepreneurship course for seniors, a pilot project combining community college students and seniors citizens towards a certificate in entrepreneurship program.

Miami Dade College, FL
$7,500 to support training of six faculty members at the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship University to enable delivery of a new certificate program at the college.

Northland Pioneer College, AZ
$5,000 to develop a series of workshops to attract Native American students to enroll in the Certificate or Associate Degree in Small Business Program.

Pulaski Technical College, AK
$5,000 to develop and implement two Small Business Summits, including workshops on self-employment topics; facilitate student exposure to entrepreneurs; and community outreach to emerging and current business owners.

Technical College of the Lowcountry, SC
$5,500 to continue and expand the Entrepreneurship in the Local Community initiative to provide focused entrepreneurship training and conduct a feasibility study for student business incubator.

West Kentucky Community and Technical College, KY
$5,000 to provide advertising, marketing and scholarship support for entrepreneurship instructional programs.

West Shore Community College, MI
$5,000 to support a pilot program to provide a basic entrepreneurship course for high school juniors and seniors at Pentwater High School in Michigan. The class will be a three credit course with dual enrollment at the college.

Williston State College, ND
$5,000 to support an educational needs assessment for local entrepreneurs, development and delivery or related workshops and courses, design of an internship program, and outreach efforts to local high schools.

Sinai Health System, IL
$328,000 towards capital support for Oncology Infusion Center and OB Triage & Ante partum Testing, to improve oncologic and obstetric facilities, enhance direct patient service areas, and streamline delivery of health care.

Wellness House , IL
$3,000 to support the 2008 Psychosocial Conference for medical and psychosocial oncology professionals to understand the implication of the "Cancer Care for the Whole Patient" report published by the Institute of Medicine and discuss ways to improve comprehensive care of cancer patients.