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TO: For-Profit and Non-Profit Companies, National and State-level Public Organizations, Public Benefit Charities and Foundations, and High Net-worth Individuals
FROM: Contrepreneurs®
SUBJECT: Getting more value for your social dollars by creating opportunities for physically, visually, and socially challenged individuals to participate in America’s Free Market Economy.
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Contrepreneurs® is a contraction of two words, “contrary” and “entrepreneur”. This word is the key word in a new social enterprise whose goal is to mobilize resources and carefully apply them to give people who are physically, sensory, and socially disadvantaged access to the American dream of business ownership and prosperity. The Contrepreneurs® Project, is a 501(c)3 charity whose intention is cause magical partnering and miraculous partnerships that change lifes and shift the world.
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Did you know...
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Entrepreneurship is the source of strength of America's Free Market Economy?
"For the United States to survive and continue its economic and political leadership in the world, we must see entrepreneurship as our centeral comparative advantage...In short, entrepreneurship in our businesses and universities: in our approach to both government and foreign policy; and in our personal lives is the only answer if we hope to continue to survive." (Schramm, Carl J., The Entrepreneurial Imperative, HarperCollins, 2006).
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Small business provides jobs for over half of nation's private workforce and that small businesses represent 99.7 percent of all firms, they create more than half of the private non-farm gross domestic product, and they create 60 to 80 percent of the net new jobs? Source: Small Business Profiles for the States and Territories, 2005 Edition from the Office of Advocacy of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).
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What is the Social Challenge We Want to Address?
Everyone knows that entrepreneurship is a cherished American opportunity. However, entrepreneurship is often denied to people who are socially or physically challenged. Americans are, by nature, generous and choose to be socially responsible. Rarely, however, are economic opportunity and social responsibility combined to provide the opportunity for Business Ownership: thus, The Contrepreneurs® Project and The Contrepreneurs® Corporation
In short, our intention is to cause magical partnering that results in miraculous partnerships that change lives and shift the world.
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Why is it a Challenge?
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It’s too hard, not sexy, high risk
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The institutions and resource channels don’t exist
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National annual charitable giving campaigns receive get the attention
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The disenfranchised are difficult, problematic, too banged up
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There are more visible and noticeable targets of opportunity for giving
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No clear, standardized process for identifying, vetting, potential Contrepreneurs
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Odds are in favor of failure
- The world is a difficult place, especially for those with Hardship
Why Do We Believe Improvement is Necessary?
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No logical advancement after workfare
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Self-respect and self-esteem accrue to productive members of society
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Opportunity to demonstrate that the free-market economy is free for all, even some who are challenged
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Entrepreneurship produces Jobs, Income
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Challenge to non-productive, disruptive, anti-social, even criminal alternatives to get ahead
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Overcome incredible hardship and, in some cases, grief
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Transcend difficulty, adversity, and pain Entrepreneurship in America
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What is The Contrepreneurs® Project?
The Contrepreneurs® Project is a revolutionary new approach that causes opportunity, responsibility and courage to intersect to create a new realm of possibilities for the physically, visually, and socially challenged.
What is Our Objective?
Establish Contrepreneurs® to mobilize civic resources and social dollars to provide economic opportunity for people who, despite social or physical challenges, have what it takes to realize the American dream of business ownership and prosperity.
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Goals
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Define roles/responsibilities necessary and sufficient for successful execution of the Contrepreneurs® mission
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Invent and continuously re-invent the Contrepreneurs® Project Team 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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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 component of a world-renown social venture.
Concept of Operations
- Partnering and Partnerships. Everything Contrepreneurs® takes on will involve causing partnering and creating partnership. The Team of Advisors is a partnership of experienced leaders. Each Contrepreneurs® project will be a team of teams.
- Contrepreneurs® Projects: 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)
- Guidance Teams, or G-Teams. Each Contrepreneurs® project will be led by a G-Team. This G-Team will consist of volunteers who have experience in the business being created as well as some core functions, such as financial management, program management, etc. supplied by Contrepreneurs®.
- 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.
Criteria for Success
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More Of
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Awareness Of Existence And Mission
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Exposure Through Public Media And Name
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Recognition of Public Benefit Charity Status
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Multi-faceted Participation
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Credibility And Confidence We Can Deliver
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Less Of
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Difficulty Enrolling Donors
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Ambiguity Regarding Definition of Beneficiaries
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Standing Starts
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Unknown-unknowns as they relate to Public Benefit Charitable Operations involving Micro-business and the Free-Market Economy
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The Contrepreneurs® Project
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