ENTREPRENEUR EDUCATIONAL CENTER
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Mission Statement
Our Mission: “To nurture and promote entrepreneurship and small business creation/expansion in the underserved communities of Watts, Willowbrook, Compton, Carson and South Central Los Angeles, California by providing assistance, education, training and mentorship for multi-cultural entrepreneurs, youth-at-risk, “handicapable” entrepreneurs, to start or expand small businesses where they live”.
About This Cause
Our Origin: For decades, innovative economic development and revival concepts in underserved inner-city areas of Los Angeles County and surrounding areas, have been implemented by the Entrepreneur Educational Center, Inc. (EECI) - a 501(c)(3) non- profit organization incorporated in 1989 in the Watts community of Los Angeles, California. Co-Founded by the late world-renowned educator and Director of the University of Southern California’s Entrepreneur Program, Dr. Richard H. Buskirk, his Assistant and former USC Program Specialist Barbara J. Stanton, and Bernadette G. Robert, a Vice President at Mount St. Mary’s College EECI has developed and implemented programs for the City of Los Angeles, the County of Los Angeles, the State of California, the US Department of Commerce, the Veterans Administration, and numerous private corporations, foundations and philanthropic organizations. Through EECI seminars and educational training thousands of entrepreneurs have learned how to develop their business, where to look for and secure funding, and the value of developing small businesses that generate jobs for residents of their communities. MYAEP and The Quarles Business Opportunity Center are designed to directly address a critical economic development need; developing future business leaders. Entrepreneurship is the largest employment path for any progressive community. The dollar in under-serviced communities only circulates one time, on an average. Whereas in many communities, it can change hands more than 5 times, on an average. Small businesses are critical for the growth of any community, but entrepreneurship is perceived as unnecessary in poor communities. High school students are taught to get a degree in a field that will pay “good money” in the future. They are not taught that small businesses are the primary employer in any community. Business courses are not offered as a viable career track towards a lucrative and meaningful career. Not addressing these needs continues to put the multi-cultural communities at a disadvantage. EECI services will be centrally located near the Los Angeles Airports, near the San Pedro/Long Beach Ports, the South Bay, (primary shopping sources), and Norwalk to the East, with direct Freeway access to all of the above. The absence of small businesses and major corporate access to merchandise, food, clothing, electronics, and other basic needs, leaves the residents travelling out of their area, just to take a client to lunch, or to purchase the majority of their needs. EECI’s programs will push the innovative envelope in terms of a business economic development model.