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Incipio empowers tomorrow's leaders.
Incipio empowers under-represented youth around the
world by promoting their unique business ideas. We inspire, train, and mentor
minority youth to envision, plan, and operate successful businesses in today's
international marketplace.
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YOUTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM KICKS OFF CAMPAIGN
Fundraising Efforts to Help More Under-Represented Youth
(Seattle, Wash.) – Youth entrepreneurship organization Incipio kicked off a campaign to raise $50,000 by May 2012 to continue to help underrepresented youth become business owners. The campaign will allow Incipio to hire administrative and educational staff to support the operation of an after school enrichment program. The program will also kick off Incipio’s new partnership with the Technology Access Foundation’s TAF Academy in Federal Way, Washington, where classes will be held.
Incipio has successfully helped its students create solid business plans ready for implementation. A productive campaign would allow Incipio to serve more students and provide increased staff support. This high level of service and support would ensure students obtain the skills they need to start a successful business.
“This campaign is essential to Incipio’s ability to continue first-rate entrepreneurship education to our students,” said Incipio Founder and CEO Michael Trotter. The organization has currently had such success with just volunteer staff and board members and an expansion is now necessary. “With the current economy, it is more important than ever that we give as many students as possible the tools they need to turn their innovative business ideas into reality,” said Trotter.
Incipio, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, depends on private donations from organizations and individuals to fund its program. The funding covers the operational expenses for teaching the program and also provides seed money for startup costs to two students each year. To date, nine students have successfully completed the program and most have gone on to operate their own successful businesses in the areas of photography, stock trading, and ______.
For more information Incipio, visit www.goincipio.org. For information about contributing to Incipio’s campaign, visit http://www.goincipio.org/contribute/Documents/contributetype.aspx
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About Incipio: Incipio, a 501c3 nonprofit, began in 2005 and empowers under-represented youth around the world by providing with the skills they need to bring their unique business ideas to life. The organization also provides support through start up seed money to two exceptional students each year. Incipio inspires, trains, and mentors youth (ages 14-19) who are either socio-economically and/or historically disadvantaged to envision, plan, and operate successful businesses in today's international marketplace. To date, nine students have completed Incipio’s entrepreneurship program.
About the TAF Academy Initiative: The TAF Academy is a 6th-12th grade school model with a mission to prepare every student for college and for life through a rigorous and relevant Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) focused curriculum. The goal is to enlist students as active participants in their education and cultivates a keen awareness of their important role within the world. |
| INCIPIO ANNOUNCES FIRST EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
(Seattle, WA) - Michael Trotter, CEO, Founder of Incipio, a Seattle based 501 c3 non-profit organization, has welcomed Incipio’s first executive director, Steven Curry. Curry will lead operations of the organization with a focus on youth advocacy and driving contributions to further expand the region’s unique Youth Entrepreneurship Program.
Curry has over 20 years of experience working in the for-profit and not-for- profit arenas. He has developed youth programs with numerous agencies in Seattle and throughout the Northwest, including: Northwest Youth Services, Friends of Youth, Ryther Child Center, YMCA of Greater Seattle, and Neighborhood House (Plain Talk Project). His Kids Court programs, operated under the King County Boys and Girls Club and Highline School District, provided strategic leadership and program success reducing crime and building networks for youth development. As current president of ADD-Resources in Tacoma WA, Curry has been engaged in providing support groups, educational conferences and workshops for families, schools, and individuals affected by ADHD. Curry is also co-owner of Curry Landscape Inc. in Bonney Lake WA.
In partnership with Trotter and Incipio’s board of directors, Curry will continue to enhance the Youth Entrepreneurship Program by implementing an Authentic Leader component. The component not only assists youth entrepreneurs in starting a business but also assists and develops youth who wish to pursue non-entrepreneurial and more traditional roles within the workforce.
Incipio, founded in 2005, has a mission that is dedicated to providing the next generation of youth entrepreneurs (ages 14-19) and business leaders with the skills and resources to affect positive economic change. Each year, Incipio enrolls numerous students from Seattle based high schools and community organizations into its Youth Entrepreneurship Program. The organization’s mission is to guide youth entrepreneurs (ages 14-19) in building upon their unique business ideas of starting and operating their own businesses.
Incipio’s program curriculum is one of the most unique in the country and combines practical and theoretical business training with authentic leadership development. Beginning in February, students will attend bi-weekly classes at Seattle Central Community College. The business and leadership training continues until May when students begin developing their business plans to present to the Seattle business community in June. At the completion of this year’s Youth Entrepreneurship Program, Incipio will award 2 students with $1,000 each as seed money to aid in the start up their unique business ideas.
To learn more about Incipio, please visit www.goincipio.org. For more information about Steven Curry or the Youth Entrepreneurship Program, please contact Helyse Sina, (775) 338-4584 or helyse.sina@goincipio.org
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| Incipio to Kick Off Second Year of Youth Entrepreneurship Program
(Seattle, WA) – Ten students from two local high schools will help celebrate the beginning of a five-month, intensive entrepreneurial program. The program is offered by Incipio, a local nonprofit focused on helping youth promote unique business ideas. The celebratory program kickoff will be hosted by Golf Savings Bank on January 29, from 6-7:30 p.m.
One of the most important aspects of Incipio’s program is it provides youth who might not otherwise have the knowledge or means to start a business with the opportunity to do so. “This program is about giving all youth an opportunity,” said Michael Trotter, Incipio founder. “The students in our program can gain the skills and resources they need to start their own businesses and become successful community leaders.”
The program classes will be held every Tuesday and Thursday, from February 2 to June 28, 2010. Participants are eager to begin their classes. “I am excited about the prospect of being selected for the Incipio Program because I love doing hair,” said Jamerah Ezell-Ray, a Garfield High School senior. “I would like to start and open a hair salon…my salon would help people to have beautiful hair.”
What: Incipio Entrepreneurship Program Kickoff
When: January 28, 2010, 6-7:30 p.m.
Where: Golf Savings Bank, Suite 1100, 1730 Minor Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101
Parking: Parking will be provided to all those attending the event and validated by
Golf Savings Bank. Parking is located in the parking structure below the Metropolitan Tower of Golf Savings Bank.
** Members of the media are invited to attend and interview participating students.
For more information about Incipio’s Entrepreneurship Program or the program kickoff, please contact Helyse Sina, (775) 338-4584 or helyseness@yahoo.com. |
| Incipio Affiliates with Renegades.com
Renegades.com |
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Incipio students to receive one on one business coaching outside of the
classroom by a star youth CEO coach, Shonika Proctor of CEO Renegades,
www.renegadesceo.com |
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Events
Incipio Annual Board Meeting, January 29, 2011 |
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