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What is a Contrepreneur?
A Contrepreneur is a "contrary entrepreneur": in other words, an unlikely business owner. We believe there are thousands of Americans who fit this definition. People who are physically, sensory, or socially challenged can succeed in business with the benefits added by support and services of Contrepreneurs®.
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Our purpose is
to mobilize resources to find such people, qualify them, under-write
their enterprises, and give them the opportunity to own and operate
their own business.
Contrepreneurs® is
offering a new way for interested individuals and organizations to
contribute their social dollars to society and to stimulate the
multiplier effect of America’s free market economy.
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What is a Contrepreneurs® Partnership?
What makes Contrepreneurs® unique is its dedication to partnership, teams and teamwork. Every project is the responsibility of a Team of carefully selected and qualified men and women.
Each Contrepreneurs® Partnership will consists of a primary "Fellow" supported by a team of "Cohort" Contrepreneurs®. To succeed will require strict adherenece to the business model that places teams, partnership, and teamwork at the core of all work.
Why is It a Challenge?
- There is no precedent for what Contrepreneurs® is offering
- The resource channels and methods must be invented
- Special people have special needs
- Opportunities must be tailored for physically, sensory, and socially challenged candidates
- Candidates might have energy and attitude but lack skills
Why Do We Believe Improvement is Necessary?
- There is room for alternatives to traditional charitable approaches
- Once mobilized, the free-market economy is a powerful source of energy and motivation for the right people
- Philanthropy continuously seeks a better return on investment
- The beneficiary communities are motivated
- A credible and systematic approach for challenging hardship, difficulty, and adversity
Causing Partnerships for Projects
- Contrepreneurs® Projects: Businesses created to foster economic opportunity, social responsibility, and shared leadership
- Contrepreneurs® Partnerships: Teams of Teams that are the necessary and sufficient ingredient for entrepreneurial success
- Fellows (Physically challenged Veterans/First Responders, Sensory challenged (Blind, Deaf), Socially challenged (Non-habitual, Ex-offenders)
- Cohorts (spouses, family members, partners, employees)
- Volunteer Teams, or V-Teams: These teams take on the day-to-day support functions. V-Teams enable Contrepreneurs® to focus its attention on its vision and mission of changing lives and shifting the world.
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Objective
Establish viable businesses owned and operated by business teams built around one or more Contrepreneurs® Fellows. Contrepreneurs® Fellows and their support, called Contrepreneurs® Cohorts, own and operate small businesses set up by Contrepreneurs® with the help of its advisors and collaborators.
Goals
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Define Roles/Responsibilities Necessary and Sufficient for Successful Execution of Mission
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Invent and Continuously Re-Invent Contrepreneurs® Project Teams to Consist of the Most Qualified People and Reward them Generously for their Contributions to Our Mission and Our Success
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Develop, Coordinate, Deploy Procedures that Control Operations
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Install Streamlined, Flexible Processes
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Maintain a working relationship with Program Operations
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Formalize, Implement and Continuously Improve Contrepreneurs® Donation Development
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Establish and Maintain Performance Measurement using Modern Corporate Dashboard Tools
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Be the Model Public Benefit Charity and a World-Renown Social Venture
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Criteria for Success
- More Of
- Awareness Of Existence And Mission
Exposure Through Public Media
- Name Recognition of public Benefit Charity Status
- Multi-faceted Participation
- Credibility And Confidence We Can Deliver
- Less Of
- Difficulty Enrolling Donors
- Ambiguity Regarding Definition of Beneficiaries
- Standing Starts
- Unknown-unknown’s as they relate to Public Benefit
Charitable Operations
Performance Measurement and Measurable Results
- Count of successful Contrepreneurs® as percent of total started (incremental, longitudinal)
- Number of people employed by Contrepreneurs® micro-businesses -- direct lives changed. (incremental, longitudinal)
- Number of families changed (indirect lives changed) (incremental, longitudinal)
- Total Started as percentage of applicants (incremental, longitudinal)
- Number of states represented in applicant pool (incremental, trend)
- Applicant demographics (incremental, longitudinal)
- Cycle Time from application to launch (elaborated for all key phases of stand-up) (incremental, longitudinal)
- Cost per start-up, cost per phase, cost per type of business (incremental, longitudinal)
- Micro-business performance (General Accounting Performance Analysis) (incremental, longitudinal)
- Number of Contrepreneurs® Project Fellows and Cohorts
- Others to be determined as the Contrepreneurs® Project evolves
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