Partners

Partners & Sponsors

The Future of Entrepreneurship Education Summit is a joint collaboration between many partners:

Title Sponsor
Opportunity International Opportunity International provides small business loans, savings, insurance and training to over three million people working their way out of poverty in the developing world. Clients in over 20 countries use these financial services to start or expand a business, provide for their families, create jobs for their neighbors and build a safety net for the future. Through its community banking network and innovations like mobile banking and biometric fingerprint technology, Opportunity banks on the spirit of people and on their hopes and dreams, and stands alongside its clients as equal partners in the fight against poverty. For more information, visit www.opportunity.org or join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter.
Host
US Chamber of Commerce Campaign for Free Enterprise In Fall 2009, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce launched one of the largest undertakings in its 100 year history – the Campaign for Free Enterprise, an effort to defend and advance America’s free enterprise values in the face of rapid government growth. It is a comprehensive, multiyear campaign to support free enterprise through national advertising; grassroots advocacy; citizen, community, and youth engagement’ and research and ideas leadership. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the world’s largest business federation representing the interests of more than 3 million businesses of all sizes, sectors, and regions, as well as state and local chambers and industry associations.”
Associate Sponsors
Kauffman Foundation The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is a private nonpartisan foundation that works to harness the power of entrepreneurship and innovation to grow economies and improve human welfare. Through its research and other initiatives, the Kauffman Foundation aims to open young people's eyes to the possibility of entrepreneurship, promote entrepreneurship education, raise awareness of entrepreneurship-friendly policies, and find alternative pathways for the commercialization of new knowledge and technologies.
Coleman Foundation The Coleman Foundation is a private, independent grantmaking foundation established in the state of Illinois in 1951. The Foundation supports educational institutions offering entrepreneurship education across the country, organizations providing cancer care, treatment and support, and agencies providing services for individuals with developmental disabilities only in the Chicago Metropolitan area - its primary geographical focus.
Organizer
Empact Formally known as the Extreme Entrepreneurship Education, Empact has worked with over 400 colleges & universities, workforce development organizations, Chambers of Commerce, and Small Business Development Centers to help promote entrepreneurship among aspiring entrepreneurs. Empact aims to alleviate mental and financial poverty by empowering individuals to live with passion, purpose, and prosperity through the entrepreneurial mindset.
Higher Education Sponsor
UNC Chapel Hill Online MBA MBA@UNC is a new program delivered online by the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. Designed to meet the needs of working professionals who want to earn their MBA from a top-ranked business school from anywhere in the world, MBA@UNC provides the quality of UNC Kenan-Flagler’s on-campus MBA programs. UNC Kenan-Flagler professors teach courses that are based on the rigorous curriculum of the residential MBA program using innovative technologies, a social-networking interface and immersion experiences.
Partners
United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) USASBE is the largest independent, professional, academic organization in the world dedicated to advancing the discipline of entrepreneurship. With over 1,000 members from universities and colleges, for-profit businesses, nonprofit organizations, and the public sector, USASBE is a diverse mix of professionals that share a common commitment to fostering entrepreneurial attitudes and behaviors.
2tor 2tor Inc. partners with preeminent institutions of higher education to deliver rigorous, selective degree programs online. The company supplies universities with the tools, expertise, capital, and global recruiting needed to compete in a space currently dominated by mediocre programs. Since its founding, 2tor has partnered with the following prestigious research universities to deliver groundbreaking online degree programs: MAT@USC, MSW@USC, Nursing@Georgetown, and MBA@UNC.
National Association of Community College Entrepreneurship (NACCE) NACCE is an organization of educators, entrepreneurs, and distinguished business development professionals providing quality programs and services in entrepreneurship education and serving as advocates for community-based entrepreneurship. Through membership, an annual conference and exhibition, a quarterly journal, monthly webinars and podcasts, a dynamic list-serv, and other resources, NACCE serves as the hub for the dissemination and integration of knowledge and successful practices regarding entrepreneurship education and student business incubation.
Startup America Partnership The Startup America Partnership was launched in January 2011 at the White House to help inspire and celebrate entrepreneurs, their firms and the people that join them. Founding board members include Steve Case (Founder of AOL), Scott Case (Co-Founder of Priceline), Carl Schramm (CEO of Kauffman Foundation), Fred Smith (Founder of Fedex), Magic Johnson (Founder of Magic Johnson Enterprises), Michael Dell (Founder of Dell), and other notable entrepreneurs.
Global Entrepreneurship Week Global Entrepreneurship Week is the world’s largest celebration of the innovators and job creators who launch startups that bring ideas to life, drive economic growth and expand human welfare. During one week each November, GEW inspires people everywhere through local, national and global activities designed to help them explore their potential as self-starters and innovators. Since it launched in 2008, it has grown to 123 countries—with nearly 24,000 partner organizations planning more than 37,000 activities that directly engage more than 7 million people.
ThinkImpact ThinkImpact is a global social enterprise that provides university students and young professionals the Innovation Institute, America’s premier immersion program in rural Africa that trains the next generation of social entrepreneurs.	-->
Little Green Money Machine (Reception sponsor) Del Visionaries is a company, a community, a movement, whose goal is to educate and help our youth (as well as adults) to become job creators versus job seekers, by learning and experiencing entrepreneurship.
Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) ARC is a regional economic development agency that represents a partnership of federal, state, and local government. Established by an act of Congress in 1965, ARC is composed of the governors of the 13 Appalachian states and a federal co-chair, who is appointed by the president. Local participation is provided through multi-county local development districts.
Sage Sage is a leading supplier of business management software and services to more than 6 million customers worldwide. From small start-ups to larger organisations, we make it easier for companies to manage their business processes.
The John E. & Jeanne T. Hughes Foundation John E. Hughes is the founder and President/CEO of the John E. and Jeanne T. Hughes Foundation, Inc., a private, charitable family foundation engaged in a range of philanthropic programs, primarily for entrepreneurship awareness and education. Mr. Hughes was the founder and Senior Partner of the John E. Hughes & Co., C.P.A. Firm, and the former CEO and President of the Archibald Candy Corporation and Fannie May Candy Shops, Inc. Mr. Hughes is also the Board Chair, Former President, and CEO of The Coleman Foundation.