Current Projects

The structure of all projects includes a volunteer advisory board made up of industry professionals and a volunteer youth project team who gain valuable work experience by completing a project.

AUSTRALIAN BUSINESS ICON™ COMPETITION

Business Icon is an exciting annual competition for ambitious young people that tests and develops personal and professional skills. Business Icon™ is currently being run in Western Australia, Queensland and Victoria and aims to run nationally in 2010.

ENTREPRENEURS BASECAMP

Entrepreneurs' Basecamp is a 5-day-camp designed to impart generic entrepreneurial skills and introduce the issues associated with creating new ventures. The camp is designed to motivate and prepare potential entrepreneurs for the long and challenging path ahead. It will be the first step for many in the opening up of business enterprises and creation of future wealth in Western Australia.

HOT DESK INCUBATION

The Foundation provides access to computers and mentoring to emerging entrepreneurs out of the AELC provided premises

Projects On The Horizon

The Foundation has a number of new projects in development that we are working towards launching in the future.

RenoVATE

RenoVATE aims to expose young people on a practical level to the task of planning, designing and managing a construction and interior design project. We will be working in a multi-disciplinary team across many areas of business, management, engineering, design, arts and science in exploring the possibilities involved. The whole project would then be sold and all proceeds given to charity.

MAKE ME A CEO

Make Me a CEO is being created by our Founder Tracey Hodgkins and developed with the 'Gap Project' - A group involving former WA Former Telstra Business Women of the Year and other high profile West Australian women. The vision for the program is to help women achieve higher levels of leadership within their current environments and the community. The program will provide the networks and support needed to achieve this aim with mentoring provided by woman and men already in those positions

SOCIAL ENTERPRISE INCUBATOR

In the next five years the Foundation is aiming to build Australia's first social enterprise and charity incubation support centre - This vision will help our not for profit sector stem the tide of unsustainable entities by leveraging off and helping each other, the provision of central administration and meeting facilities as well as mentors and coaches for supporting the development of their entity. Also this centre will support new businesses with a social focus to become sustainable and promote their concepts to the global market.