The Lansing-based Prima Civitas Foundation is using a $250,000 grant
from the C.S. Mott Foundation to find best practices that will encourage young
entrepreneurs to pursue their dreams in the Mid-Michigan area.
Prima Civitas is working with the public and private
sector to figure out what entices entrepreneurs to stay in an area and how the
private and public sector can foster this kind of growth.
“We want to figure out how we make commercialization and
entrepreneurship more of an ethic in our colleges and community colleges,” says
David Hollister with Prima Civitas.
In the spring of 2008, Prima Civitas and others involved
in the effort will release benchmarks and a roadmap of sorts for achieving this
goal. Hollister says the group eventually wants the entrepreneurship mentality
to trickle down to high school students.
“We want them to think of what kind of company they’re
going to create, and that’s really a substantial cultural and attitudinal
change,” Hollister says.
Source: Dave Hollister, Prima Civitas
Ivy Hughes, development news editor, can be reached here.
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