GOLD SPONSORS
SILVER SPONSORS
PLATINUM PARTNERS:
The Planning Shop
Rhonda M. Abrams
President
325A Forest Ave.
Palo Alto, CA 94301
www.planningshop.com
The Planning Shop’s name has become synonymous with success. Their flagship product, The Successful Business Plan: Secrets & Strategies, has been used by hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs around the world. It’s also been widely adopted by business schools and has been used by thousands of MBA students to create their business plans and enter competitions. Their success is of course no accident. All their books and products are based on years of real-world experience, sharing insight and advice—secrets and strategies—from entrepreneurs, funding sources, CEOs and other strategic players.
SILVER PARTNERS:
Boston Reed College
Community College Week
EduCase Enterprise: An Experience in Enterprise
Effició, Inc.
Ideablob.com, inspired by Advanta
Inside Higher Ed
Planning the Entrepreneurial Venture
Dr. Wendy Flint
Senior VP Marketing and Sales
2799 Napa Valley Corporate Drive
Napa, CA 94558
(800) 830-2228
http://www.bostonreed.com/colleges/
Boston Reed College, an approved allied healthcare training provider, partners with fee-based and non-credit programs in over 165 locations to offer popular, in-demand training that can generate substantial revenue for college programs without risk to the college. Boston Reed provides instructors, course materials, marketing assistance and externship placement. Course offerings include pharmacy technician, clinical medical assistant, phlebotomy, orthopedic technician, and optometric technician, A college "without walls," Boston Reed has graduated over 60,000 students since 1991.
Community College Week
Pamela K. Barrett
Publisher
PO Box 1305
Fairfax, VA 22038
http://www.ccweek.com
Since 1988, Community College Week has been the independent source of in-depth information for two-year college faculty, administrators and trustees. Published biweekly, Community College Week’s readers include college presidents, chief academic officers, faculty, student-service professionals, librarians and other educators. Our readers find news and features not provided by other news sources, including analyses of critical academic trends, vital statistics, technology updates and employment opportunities. In 2008, CCW celebrates its 20th Anniversary.
EduCase Enterprise: An Experience in Enterprise
Terri Barreiro, Director
Donald McNeely Center for Entrepreneurship
Saint John’s University and College of Saint Benedict
350 Simons Hall
Collegeville, MN 56321
www.educaseenterprise.org
educasehelp@csbsju.edu
EduCases are new ways to bring an entrepreneur to life in a classroom or peer learning group. This unique, state-of-the-art tool is revolutionizing the way organizational cases are studied and taught. Students have the experience of being there – seeing the business operations, hearing from customers, employees and competitors, and learning about the entrepreneurial struggles and triumphs directly from the entrepreneur themselves. Instructors will have access to online tools that make these easy to use. With a focus on Midwest entrepreneurs in both small business and nonprofit settings, these case studies are selected to match the likely futures of entrepreneurial oriented students and provide stories about individuals a lot like them.
Effició, Inc.
Kristy Couch, Program Coordinator
Effició for Educators
3020-I Prosperity Church Road, Suite 128
Charlotte, NC
(866) 934-CORE (2673)
Kristy@efficio.biz
www.efficio.biz
Effició Inc. is a Global Business Education Center focused on strengthening entrepreneurs in skills, knowledge, mindset, and character. With this in mind, we've created a turnkey learning portal providing entrepreneurship education, training, consulting, and coaching in blended learning formats. To enhance our core offerings, we team up with community colleges through our Effició for Educators division, by providing instructors, course materials, marketing assistance and program development. We don't function in a box nor do we follow a cookie cutter way of thinking, this allows our students to exceed their definitions of success.
Ideablob.com, inspired by Advanta
Nicola Wedderburn
Innovation Team
PO Box 844
Spring House, PA 19477
(215) 444-5594
hello@ideablob.com
www.ideablob.com
Ideablob.com is a community where people share, discover and support ideas. You’ll find business owners, entrepreneurs, inventors, philanthropists, nonprofit representatives, free-thinkers and problem-solvers hanging around the community. They post, comment, advise, critique and compare ideas. And every month, they vote to decide which idea is worthy of a $10,000 prize. They also connect. With over 80,000 registered users (and growing), ideablob is the place to find some of the best new business ideas and the people behind them.
Inside Higher Ed
Kathlene Collins
Publisher
1320 18th Street, NW
Fifth Floor
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 659-9208 ext 103
Kathlene.collins@insidehighered.com
Inside Higher Ed is the free daily news Web site for people who work in higher education. Breaking news, lively commentary, and thousands of jobs draw more than half a million engaged readers each month. Daily. Online. Free. Ahead of the curve. Join the new conversation in higher education.
Planning the Entrepreneurial Venture
Tina Sterling
Program Consultant
Kansas City, MO
http://www.kauffman.org/
Blended e-learning, entrepreneurship course materials
Planning the Entrepreneurial Venture (PEV) is an innovative, dynamic, hands-on approach to discovering the world of entrepreneurship. Developed by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, PEV blends rich online content with traditional classroom instruction, allowing students to learn through self-discovery as they research, develop, and write a start-up business plan. Contact Tina Sterling, program consultant, to preview course content: tmsterling@tcstrat.com or 816.421.1106.
Workplace Learning Resource Center
Eileen Granosky
Director
2323 North Broadway, Suite 328
Santa Ana Ca 92706
http://www.rsccd.org
Rancho Santiago Community College District Workplace Learning Resource Center is part of a statewide network. Centers provide programs that are functional in context to the job by providing skill enhancement that employees can apply immediately to their job after training. Innovative delivery methods are used including computer-based training, online instruction, and short-term onsite training. Programs are designed to meet the rapidly emerging just-in-time needs of the organization and the worker.
Augusoft, Inc.
4050 Olson Memorial Highway, #245
Golden Valley, MN 55422
Beth Moorhead, Director of Marketing
Phone: 612-605-1200
www.augusoft.net
Augusoft®, Inc., the leader in non-credit education software, develops and maintains Lumens® - the first entirely Web-based, customizable on-demand Lifelong Learning Management System (LLMS). Augusoft Lumens is designed for the unique needs of: continuing education, community education, corporate education and workforce development programs. Complementing your institution-wide ERP solution, Lumens streamlines business processes, reduces overhead, provides easy data analysis with proven ROI. Visit augusoft.net or call (612) 605-1200.
uwemp
3001 West Big Beaver Road, Suite 624
Troy, MI 48084
Jordan Wolfe, Founder
Phone: 248-541-2600
jordan@uwemp.com
www.uwemp.com
uwemp is an online media company and resource focused on experience-based content. We provide innovative, web-based educational programming focused on developing students’ real-world entrepreneurial skills with a focus on writing and interpersonal communication. uwemp offers both internship and curriculum development programs where we work directly with students and the faculty on effectively implementing web-based tools into entrepreneurship education.
The Council for Resource Development (CRD)
League for Innovation
The Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education
Dr. Cathy Ashmore, Executive Director
Phone: 614-486-6538
Fax: 419-791-8922
The Consortium Champions Entrepreneurship Education as a lifelong learning process and Provides Advocacy, Leadership, Networking, Technical Assistance, and Resources nationally across all levels and disciplines of education, promoting Quality Practices and Programs. Its members are organizations, education agencies, and associations focused on advancing entrepreneurship education. Over nearly 30 years the Consortium has developed National Content Standards for Entrepreneurship, National Standards of practice and recently worked with the US DOL to create the Entrepreneurship Education Framework.
The Council for Resource Development (CRD)
Polly Binns
(202) 822-0750
polly.binns@crdnet.org
www.crdnet.org
CRD serves those professionals who secure resources outside of state and local funding, both public and private, that support community college missions. CRD is the only professional organization concerned exclusively with fundraising for two-year colleges. Since 1973 CRD has supported professionals and developed leaders engaged in community college resource development through education, advocacy and mentoring. These professionals have developed sophisticated advancement offices which have raised billions of dollars through building partnerships with federal, state, local, individual and foundation funding sources. CRD, one of the largest affiliate councils of the American Association of Community Colleges, serves over 1650 members at approximately 700 two-year institutions.
League for Innovation
Chris Hennessey
4505 East Chandler Boulevard, #250
Phoenix, AZ 85048
http://www.league.org/
The League for Innovation in the Community College is an international consortium dedicated to catalyzing the community college movement. CEOs from the most influential, resourceful, and dynamic community colleges and districts in the world comprise the League for Innovation's board of directors and provide strategic direction for its ongoing activities. These community colleges and their leaders are joined by more than 850 institutions that hold membership in the League for Innovation's Alliance. The League for Innovation, with this core of powerful and innovative community colleges and more than 160 corporate partners, serves nationally and internationally as a catalyst, project incubator, and experimental laboratory for community colleges around the world. We host conferences and institutes, develop web resources, conduct research, produce publications, provide services, and lead projects and initiatives with our member colleges, corporate partners, and other agencies in our continuing efforts to make a positive difference for students and communities. These current programs, along with the League for Innovation's 40-year history of service to community colleges, explain why Theodore Marchese, the veteran editor of Change observed, "The League for Innovation is the single most vital organization in higher education today."
National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD)
Evelyn N. Waiwaiole, Ph.D.
Director, NISOD
The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station, D5600 Austin, Texas 78712-0378
(512) 471-7545
Founded in 1978, the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) is dedicated to serving, engaging, and inspiring higher education faculty, staff, and administrators. NISOD’s constituency represents more than 600 institutional members nationally and internationally, providing conferences, research, web resources, publications, award programs, corporate partnerships and more. NISOD is the outreach vehicle and service arm to the Community College Leadership Program (CCLP) and the College of Education at The University of Texas Austin. The CCLP is an award-winning doctoral-level program training community college presidents, vice presidents, and deans for more than 60 years.
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Accelper Consulting
Praveen Gupta
President
praveen@accelper.com
1320 Tower Road
Schaumburg, IL 60173
(847) 903-4575
www.accelper.com
Accelper Consulting offers training and consulting for improving organizational performance through excellence and business innovation. Accelper has developed training and certification programs for enhancing competency in business innovation through education and application in community college, university and corporate business environments. Accelper’s Master Business Innovator Train-the-Trainer, and Certified Business Innovator programs have been recognized by NACCE and Illinois Institute of Technology. Visit www.accelper.com for more information.
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Augusoft, Inc.
4050 Olson Memorial Highway, #245
Golden Valley, MN 55422
Beth Moorhead, Director of Marketing
Phone: 612-605-1200
Augusoft®, Inc., the leader in non-credit education software, develops and maintains Lumens® - the first entirely Web-based, customizable on-demand Lifelong Learning Management System (LLMS). Augusoft Lumens is designed for the unique needs of: continuing education, community education, corporate education and workforce development programs. Complementing your institution-wide ERP solution, Lumens streamlines business processes, reduces overhead, provides easy data analysis with proven ROI. Visit augusoft.net or call (612) 605-1200.
Constant Contact
1601 Trapelo Road
Waltham, MA 02451
Phone: 866-876-8464
www.constantcontact.com
Constant Contact®, Inc. is a leading provider of on-demand email marketing and interactive communications services for small businesses, associations, and nonprofits. Through customizable, easy-to-use tools, including email marketing and online surveys, Constant Contact helps all types of small organizations build stronger customer relationships, drive sales, and achieve success.
Today, more than 250,000 customers worldwide rely on us to help them connect with their audience and build their communities effectively and meaningfully. We remain dedicated to helping our small organizations thrive through the expert personal coaching, education, and award-winning support they receive from us and our growing community.
Palo Alto Software, Inc.
David Shear
Channel Sales Manager
davids@paloalto.com
Palo Alto Software
488 E.11th Avenue Suite 220
Eugene, OR 97401
http://www.paloalto.com/
Palo Alto Software, Inc. develops and markets products, services and tools to help people succeed in business. Business Plan Pro , its flagship product, is the best-selling business planning software in the U.S. retail market. Palo Alto Software also offers Marketing Plan Pro , the most popular software for preparing and managing marketing plans. Business Plan Pro and Marketing Plan Pro are the #1 planning software programs in the academic market and are used in thousands of undergraduate and graduate level business and entrepreneurship classes across the world. The company's award-winning bplans.com website offers free resources on business plans and startups and is one of the highest trafficked sites in the small business market.
WorkSmart Integrated Marketing
23230 Chagrin Blvd, Suite 900
Beachwood, OH 44122
Brad Kleinman, Director of Education
216-339-0353
Brad@worksmartim.com
www.worksmartim.com
At WorkSmart Integrated Marketing, we feel it’s not just about your website, it’s about your web strategy. We help clients improve their web presence through various eMarketing Techniques™, such as email marketing, search marketing, online video, and social media. To enhance our client’s understanding of the new world of marketing, we team up with community colleges to run eMarketing Techniques™ conferences, workshops, and seminars across the country
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SILVER SPONSORS:
Cybergroup, Inc.
MediaSpark GoVenture
PEARSON
Rowhouse Publishing
Cybergroup, Inc.
Greg Bean
1450 South Rolling Road
Baltimore, MD 21227
(410) 455-5979
http://www.cybergroup.com/
info@incutrack.com
incuTrackTM is a comprehensive, secure, Web based information tracking and reporting system designed specifically for business incubators and accelerators. Instead of a collection of disjointed spreadsheets or file folders, you may now have all your program and client information in one readily accessible, centralized database. incuTrack helps you automate and manage all aspects of your incubator -- providing an effective and economical software solution that has been deployed in dozens of incubators worldwide. Visit: http://www.incutrack.com
Contemporary Learning Systems
Dr. George Colburn
Project Director
Washington, DC
colburn@innovationcourse.com
http://www.innovationcourse.org/
A new multi-media and web-enhanced introductory college course of study on innovation and entrepreneurship is in the final stages of production from Contemporary Learning Systems, thanks to a generous grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. Entitled MAKING IT NEW: INVENTION, INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP, the multi-disciplinary course looks at innovation's characteristics through the lens of history. Its development was inspired by - and features -They Made America, Harold Evans' book and public TV series that profiles prominent American innovators "from the steam engine to the search engine."
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
4801 Rockhill Road
Kansas City, Missouri 64110
Stefanie Weaver
Phone: 816-932-1226
sweaver@kauffman.org
www.kauffman.org
www.fasttrac.org
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is a private, nonpartisan foundation that works with partners to advance entrepreneurship in America and improve the education of children and youth. Founded by late entrepreneur and philanthropist Ewing Marion Kauffman, the Foundation is based in Kansas City, Mo. For more information, visit http://www.kauffman.org and follow @kauffmanfdn on Twitter.
MediaSpark GoVenture
Mathew Georghiou
CEO and Chief Simulation Designer
PO Box 975, Sydney, NS, B1P6J4, Canada
(800) 331-2282
http://www.mediaspark.com
MediaSpark applies the power of serious games and social networks to the subjects of business and money. Our award-winning GoVenture simulations enable youth and adults to gain years of entrepreneurship experience in minutes. Realistic experiential learning, engaged classes, higher test scores, and increased enrollments are just some of the benefits ( http://www.GoVenture.net ). Our EntreOasis content and social network aggregates the best business resources the world has to offer in one place as it aims to be the go-to website for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship facilitators ( http://www.EntreOasis.com ).
PEARSON
Gary Bauer
Senior Acquisitions Editor
gary.bauer@pearson.com
445 Hutchinson Ave., 4th Floor
Columbus, OH 43235
614-841-3673
http://www.pearsonhighered.com/
PEARSON offers a full range of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management textbooks for college and high school curriculum including the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship textbooks by Steve Mariotti. Visit our booth to see what is new in print, media, and distance learning materials and, if you have an interest in writing in the area of Entrepreneurship, be sure to talk with Sr. Acquisitions Editor, Gary Bauer, about your interest.
1375 Broadway Suite 600
New York, New York 10018
Phone: (212) 624-9238
Fax: (314) 237-1956
info@rowhousepublishing.com
www.NewtonPrograms.com
Rowhouse Publishing, a division of Newton Business Programs, is based in New York and specializes in business books that are dedicated to helping individuals achieve their professional and entrepreneurial goals. Our textbook, Bankable Business Plans for Entrepreneurial Ventures, is a comprehensive and affordable learning tool for university students studying entrepreneurship. The textbook offers professors teaching tools including a sample syllabus, test bank, class slides, case notes and supplemental case studies.
Turning Technologies
255 W. Federal Street
Youngstown, OH 44503
Phone: (330) 746-3015
Fax: (330) 884-6065
sales@turningtechnologies.com
www.TurningTechnologies.com
Student Response System -- Gather valuable student data and feedback instantly -add Turning Technologies' interactive response technology to your next classroom presentation.
Poll in ANY environment or format and transform presentations into powerful data collection tools. Students use ResponseCard® keypads, mobile devices, laptops, or PDAs to submit responses in real-time.
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