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We Care Worldwide, Inc. and it’s private & corporate partners will donate over $90 million dollars in Global Entrepreneurship Training Scholarships to Teens and Young Adults around the world in 2008. Entrepreneur Steve Conley’s dream of an online Global Entrepreneurship University has become a reality. The first year’s goal is to train 20,000 young people around the globe to be community leaders, global networking experts and most importantly to understand Economic Reciprocity. The training provides a foundation for choosing to develop an entrepreneurial mindset, and covers self-assessments, leadership and business management skills, business plan development, web-based business basics, marketing strategies, relationship building, communications, networking and economic reciprocity. Conley explains: “Our process uses technology to accommodate time zones around the world. We combine technical information with a real world perspective by having successful business people share their knowledge with our students.” Conley says that examples used in his course represent real world business opportunities and include African American business people as role models and mentors. At the end of the 12 course program, each student who successfully completes the training will work with professionals in their field of interest, and will also be provided with an e-commerce enabled website. The We Care staff and a host of stellar mentors will continue to support their efforts for years to come, while they network with other young entrepreneurs in the We Care Global Village. “It’s about time adults stop complaining about our young people and start doing something to change things. Parents and other responsible family and community people have to think about whether to splurge on video games, expensive sneakers and electronic gear, or really invest in changing the mindset of today’s children. And we have to start training our children to do business in a networked way – with people who do business with us in a respectful way. That’s what we’re doing here,” according to Conley. Conley and his team are networking with national and international organizations, professional sports figures, world-renowned business leaders and entertainers to develop the list of scholarship recipients. “We provide the participation criteria, then let others select our students for us,” says Conley. “That way, there are communities of support for these young people around the world. One such community is the AMEC (African Methodist Episcopal Church) which is the largest and oldest black religious denomination in the United States. The AMEC is a community of 5 million members, 9,000 pastors, 7,000 churches, that founded 12 historically black colleges, and produce 120 annual conferences worldwide. The top 100 young leaders from their Young People’s Division (200,000 strong women & men) are currently enrolled in the We Care Worldwide Global Entrepreneurship Training Program. “These are the types of organizations that I am looking for to distribute our scholarships”, Conley said. We Care has already provided scholarships to students in 26 U.S. States, 13 African Countries, and 3 Caribbean Islands. We Care Worldwide, Inc. (www.wecareworldwide.com) is a website application strategy, design, and hosting company based out of it’s E-Learning Center “The Thinking Pad” at the Mills Mall in St. Louis, MO. We Care is a participant in Entrepreneurship Week USA, and is coordinating the Million Father March 2007 in St. Louis. Through its partner www.homeworknetwork.net, it provides online resources for homework assistance for parents and students. We Care is also opening two new E-Learning Centers for Webinars & Audiocasting, the second St. Louis location in the Central West End area, and in the Germantown area of Philadelphia, PA before the end of 2007. |