GOLD PARTNERS
FRIENDS OF NACCE
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.
GOLD PARTNERS:
WorkSmart eMarketing
23230 Chagrin Blvd, Suite 900
Beachwood, OH 44122
Brad Kleinman, Director of Education
216-339-0353
At WorkSmart-eMarketing, 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 TM, 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 TM conferences, workshops, and seminars across the country
SILVER PARTNERS:
Boston Reed College
Community College Week
Contemporary Learning Systems
EduCase Enterprise: An Experience in Enterprise
Effició, Inc.
Ideablob.com, inspired by Advanta
Inside Higher Ed
Planning the Entrepreneurial Venture
Turning Technologies, LLC
Workplace Learning Resource Center
Boston Reed College
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.
Contemporary Learning Systems
Dr. George Colburn
Project Director
Washington, DC
http://www.innovationcourse.org/
colburn@innovationcourse.com
A new multi-media and web-enhanced introductory college course on innovation and entrepreneurship is due in the fall of 2009 from Contemporary Learning Systems thanks to a generous grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. Entitled MAKING IT NEW: INVENTION, INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEUSHIP, 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."
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.
Turning Technologies, LLC
Sheila Hura
255 West Federal Street
Youngstown, Ohio 44503
(330) 884-6245
shura@turningtechnologies.com
www.turningtechnologies.com
Student Response System - Conduct multiple assessments and increase student achievement with Turning Technologies' TurningPoint(r)! Complete PowerPoint(r) integration allows instructors to transform presentations into active learning and student assessment tools. Now, with TurningPoint AnyWhere(tm), educators can poll within any PC application including, Word documents, pdf's and web browsers. Students use responseCards(r), laptops, PDAs or the new ResponseCard XR with LCD screen to submit real-time responses. Use TurningPoint's student response system for participation points and grading!
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
Beth Moorhead
Director of Marketing
4050 Old Memorial Highway, Suite 245
Golden Valley, MN 55422
(612) 605-1200
http://www.augusoft.net
Celebrating over fourteen years of innovation, Augusoft® develops and maintains Lumens® - the first complete, entirely Web-based, customizable Lifelong Learning Management System. Integrating with traditional academic systems, Augusoft Lumens is specifically designed for the unique needs of continuing education and workforce development programs. Augusoft Lumens allows non-credit programs the ability to outsource the liability, security, hosting and compliance issues that are analogous with online commerce. Augusoft Lumens users benefit from non-credit best practice features, comprehensive financial program analysis tools, greater user satisfaction, increased student registrations, 24/7 user access and improved program ROI.
The Council for Resource Development (CRD)
League for Innovation
National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD)
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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