Leadership Project Results
Since launching projects in 2000, the Entrepreneurs Foundation has sponsored leadership projects addressing Equity in Education, Improving Air Quality, Access to Technology and East Austin Revitalization.  Most recently, we have launched an initiative to assess and address the availability of resources for breast cancer survivors.  Stay tuned for more information. Highlights from previous projects are below. 

Project Teams have:

• Helped Huston-Tillotson College through strategic planning and by running programs that have brought more than 100 technology professionals to campus for career workshops, a classroom speaker series, internship program development, and support for a new Career Center;
• Taught East Austin residents technology planning and grant writing skills that resulted in a new neighborhood wireless computer lab;
• Designed executive marketing tools and leveraged relationships for the Clean Air Partners program resulting in more than 50 new companies (affecting nearly 150,000 employees) committing to a voluntary emissions reductions program;
• Designed Project Connect, a partnership with Breakthrough Austin, that created a structured technology program to place refurbished computers in the homes of 80 low-income middle school students involved in a path-to-college program;
• Provided IT support and web development for eight AISD campuses;
• Collaborated with East Austin’s Chestnut Revitalization Corporation and Chestnut Neighborhood Association to assist residents in implementing their strategic plan, offering leadership training, coordinating a home rehab and beautification effort, researching and acquiring lots for affordable housing within the neighborhood, and raising awareness of the neighborhood’s history and culture.
• Partnered with Hands on Housing for the 2004 Raise the Roof event – over 100 volunteers from the tech community were recruited to refurbish 6 owner occupied homes in the Chestnut Neighborhood.
• Begun identifying ways to use new technology to reduce emergency room visits among indigent patients suffering from heart failure.