IP Outreach in Practice > IP Creation
Overview
Organizer: | Clifton Taulbert's Building Community Institute, Entrepreneurial Learning Initiative (ELI), Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation |
Country/Territory: | United States of America |
Language: | English Spanish |
Focus: | Entrepreneurship |
Outreach Tools: | Curriculum Materials, Social media, Website |
Target Audience: | Kids / Tweens / Teens, School Teachers, University Professors, University Students |
Details
"Ice House Entrepreneurship Program" (launched in 2010/2011) designed to inspire and engage America's youth (high school and community college students) in the unlimited opportunities that an entrepreneurial mindset can provide; includes:
- "Who Owns the Ice House?" book, based on the personal experience of Pulitzer nominee Clifton Taulbert, tells a powerful and compelling story that draws on the entrepreneurial influence and eight essential life-lessons Taulbert gained from his Uncle Cleve, an unlikely entrepreneur in the segregated South
- interactive online learning program combining narrated chalkboard presentations with video interviews and case studies featuring modern-day examples of those who, like Taulbert's Uncle Cleve, have triumphed over hardship and adversity by embracing an entrepreneurial mindset; also includes individual learning assessments, discussion topics and assignments
Links
http://www.cliftontaulbert.com/
http://www.elientrepreneur.com/
[Date Added/Updated: Jan 23, 2014]