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The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is often referred to as one of the largest foundations in the United States—or as the world’s largest foundation devoted to young entrepreneurship.Ewing Kauffman was the prototypical entrepreneur, who started with few resources, grew his firm into a multibillion-dollar company over four decades, and did so in an ethical and compassionate manner. He experienced first hand the rewards of education and entrepreneurship for himself, his family, his work associates, and his community.The Kauffman Foundation’s first major project was the creation of the Advanced Coronary Treatment Foundation (ACT), formed to help reduce the number of deaths caused by coronary disease. CPR NOW! was organized to provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation training to volunteers on a massive scale on the baseball field at Royals Stadium.Ewing Kauffman experienced the rewards of starting and growing a business and he believed philanthropy should promote entrepreneurship. He was integrally involved in the original research and determination of our work in advancing entrepreneurship. The Foundation operated the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership from 1992-2002 to provide training to existing entrepreneurs and introduce entrepreneurship curricula to students.
Carl Schramm was named the fourth president and chief executive officer of the Kauffman Foundation in 2002 and the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and Youth Development Division were realigned within the Kauffman Foundation to work with partners to encourage entrepreneurship across America and improve the education of children.in 1988, Ewing Marion Kauffman made a commitment to a group of high school students that if they would stay in school, stay off drugs, avoid teenage parenthood, commit to being good citizens and graduate on time, he would fund their post-secondary education.
A Community Effort
Project Choice partnered with schools, youth serving agencies, colleges and employers to ensure that Choice students were given the support they needed to be successful in the transition from post-high school and college to career. Study skills training, tutoring and counseling helped them graduate.
Project Choice partnered with schools, youth serving agencies, colleges and employers to ensure that Choice students were given the support they needed to be successful in the transition from post-high school and college to career. Study skills training, tutoring and counseling helped them graduate.
Statistics
Choice was driven by the principle that a high school dropout not only suffers a personal disadvantage, but also creates a disadvantage for society
Choice was driven by the principle that a high school dropout not only suffers a personal disadvantage, but also creates a disadvantage for society
Results
From 1988 to 1992, nearly 1,400 high school students signed up for Project Choice. The Foundation provided support to parents and helped to organize mentors, summer sessions and computer training to support the students’ successful high school completion. By 1996, 767 of those students had graduated from high school on time. Of those, 709 opted to continue their education; 308 students completed college or vocational training.
From 1988 to 1992, nearly 1,400 high school students signed up for Project Choice. The Foundation provided support to parents and helped to organize mentors, summer sessions and computer training to support the students’ successful high school completion. By 1996, 767 of those students had graduated from high school on time. Of those, 709 opted to continue their education; 308 students completed college or vocational training.
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I too am amazed by all the press that Carl Schramm gets for pouring fuel on the fire that is augmenting debt and killing the economy while opposing the entrepreneurial spirit. It is really quite hilarious that under Schramm’s “leadership,” Kauffman refuses to fund entreprenuers, other than those running vanity presses who are named Carl Schramm.He has grown university administrations in an unprecedented manner while his cadre of aging boomers/sycophantic bloggers pocketed the cash that Kauffman had meant for entrepreneurs.If you ever meet anyone form the Kauffman foundation, you will realize that it is Schramm’s way or the highway. He is indeed the polar opposite of Kauffman. He is neither and entrepreneur nor risk taker nor innovator, but an ambitious politician with a $2.5 billion warchest at his disposal.I wish the WSJ had some their due diligence–his actions speak louder than his words., and after five years of his running the Kauffman Foundation and redefining entrepreneurship as a dictatoroial Harvard MBA bureaucracy apologizing for the banking scandals, one must wonder how much more of this America can take. He had his chance and has failed in an epic manner, and he will probably fail at his main goal too–winning the Nobel Prize in economics. For it can not be bought–not even with the $2.5 billion he won in the lottery.It is time for Schramm and his MBAs to step down, get out of the way of the American entrepreneur, and let Kauffman’s true vision be realized.
“Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow…” –Ludwig Von MisesSo we see why Schramm neglects/detests Mises, for Schramm is far more interested in photo-ops with leading socialists such as Gordon Brown and George Bush than he is in defending the natural rights of the unkwon men–the creators, innovators, and inventors.Carl Schramm’s greatest accomplishment to date was that he was able to completly ignore Nobel Laureate F.A. Hayek and his teacher Ludwig Von Mises in penning a book on contemporary capitalism–GOOD CAPITALISM: BAD CAPITALISM.Schramm ignoring Hayek and Mises in Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism is like ignoring Elvis and The Beatles while writing the history of rock and roll. Or like ignoring Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson in writing a treatise on boxing. Or it would be like ignoring Thomas Jefferson and George Washington in writing a history of the United States, which, when you come to think about it, is exactly what the Statists do, exalting their groupthink “growthology” prose and mere MBA buzzwords over eternity’s greats, as Schramm defines entrepreneurship as creating groupthink buzzword consensus while funneling the Kauffman funds into his pocket. And as a result, the spirit of entrepreneurship dies as trillions and trillions are printed and given to Schramm’s banking friends, without Schramm ever standing aside history and yelling “stop.” Since Schramm is competing for the Nobel Prize in economics, as opposed to furthering scholarship, innovating, inventing, and serving the spirit of entrepreneurship, he has to focus on growthology MBA buzzwords instead of thoughts, innovation, and ideas, in the same way American Idol contestants must focus not on music, but on Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul.So why did Scrhamm completely reject Mises and Hayek in penning his book? Well, because Schramm knows that Mises and Hayek are talking about him, and how can he ever win the Nobel in economics if he shares their supreme wisdom with the world, which calls him out? Good Capitalism: Bad Capitalism was written not to exalt the truth, but hide it, for as Hayek noted in The Road To Serfdom: When Truth Ends, The Worst Rise To The Top. When Schramm saw those two chapters, he jumped at the oportunity–if he could get rid of Hayek’s and Mises’s truth at Kauffman, then he could rise to the top and staty there for all of eternity, even as the American economy crashed and burned due to dumbed-down, soulless Schrammenomics. All he had to do was usrround himself with an army of sycophantic supporters and keep them in terror by never defining Kauffman’s mission–an accomplishment of opaqueness he recently took great pride in in a WSJ puff piece.Some have wondered if Kauffman might be a giant laboratory to test what happens when Statists come to control the economy with MBA Buzzwords and double-talking jive JDs/MBAs chanting “growthology!” while campaigning for the Nobel in eocnomics. But then one actually begins to realize that Schramm isn’t kididng. He considers himself to be the King of Kapitalism, and all his hand-picked Kauffman cronies agree (or they wouldn’t be there). The only problem is that the eocnomy does not agree, and millions upon millions of jobs are being lost as Schramm commissions more papers on entreprneurship from his Statist friends, while also wiring hundreds of millions to univeristy administrations who place students in debt in an epic manner, raising tutions at fast as Schramm can wire cash their way, freezing wages while exalting student debt as this is how Schramm defines entrepreneurship, thusly wiring Kauffman funds to his cronies who agree to pen glowing PR for his lawerly, “safe” vision of anti-entrepreneurship.Schramm’s motto should be “More debt for students, less funds for professors, and more money for Schrammenomic administrators.” as he empowers groupthink growthology MBA-buzzword bloggers to lord over all: http://www.chroniclet.com/2009/04/08/oberlin-college-freezes-wages/“The belt-tightening at Oberlin is occurring shortly after the college decided to raise the per-student cost per year to $50,584 — up from the $48,150 this year. The $2,434 increase in tuition and fees was smaller than in years past, Watts said.”And so it is that as Schramm personally profits as the American economy declines, suffering from seven years of Schammenomics with no end in sight, Schramm knows that to maintain his power, he must erase every last vestige of Hayek and Mises from contemporary definitions of “Good Capitalism.”Why?Because Hayek and Mises call Schramm out. They call his Statist bluff which is killing the spirit of entrepreneurship while lining Schramm’s pockets with millions as entreprnuers lose thei rlines of credit, businesses, and homes; and their employees lose their jobs. “Growthology!” Schramm barks at them as he flies first class overhead on Kauffman’s dime. Ludwig Von Mises stated:”[Socialists] promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office.”” (Def. what Kauffman has become under Schrammenomics)
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