The Tate Center for Entrepreneurship at the College of Charleston Presents “Entrepreneurship for Creatives”
August 31, 2009
CHARLESTON, SC – August 31, 2009 – The Tate Center for Entrepreneurship presents “Entrepreneurship for Creatives” a 10-week professional development program specifically designed to guide for creatives to develop business skills for success as an entrepreneur. The opening session is Thursday, September 17th at 5:30PM and the course is regularly scheduled for Tuesday evenings from 5:30 p.m – 8:30 p.m, Sept. 22, 2009 through Nov. 17, 2009 at the Tate Center for Entrepreneurship, located at 5 Liberty Street. For more information, please call Jessica at 843.953.6622 or email her at [email protected]. Tuition is $299 plus books. Register now http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=x5CWl6izBXGtCEQ_2f_2bJ9NkQ_3d_3d. The first 20 registrants who successfully complete the course will receive a $150 tuition reimbursement sponsored by the South Carolina Arts Commission.
Entrepreneurs and the creative businesses they create is the focus of a new professional development program at the Tate Center for Entrepreneurship <http://www.cofc.edu/~tate> , specifically designed for artists, performers, designers, and other creative entrepreneurs who want to develop better business skills. The program uses proven curricula developed by NxLeveL® , the premier entrepreneurial training program in the United States, designed to teach best practices for small businesses. This base training program has been adapted to meet the unique skills and needs of entrepreneurs in creative businesses. Although more than 160,000 entrepreneurs, aspiring entrepreneurs, and small business owners have completed NxLeveL® courses, this is the first program that focuses exclusively on business concepts for creative entrepreneurs.
“Throughout the world, creative entrepreneurs are playing an increasingly important role in their communities” said Dr. John E. Clarkin, Ph.D., Director of the Tate Center for Entrepreneurship. “We’ve developed a series of courses specifically designed for creative individuals to help them take their businesses to the next level.”
The Tate Center for Entrepreneurship
The Tate Center for Entrepreneurship serves as a bridge between the School of Business & Economics at the College of Charleston and the business community, positively enhancing the entrepreneurial and educational opportunities in our region and state through education, innovation, research and advocacy. Through its programming, the Tate Center for Entrepreneurship brings today’s and tomorrow’s entrepreneurs, government officials, industry leaders and executives together to further develop the entrepreneurial landscape of South Carolina. A successful South Carolina entrepreneur and founder of Carolina Baby Superstores, Mr. Jack Tate donated 1.5 million to establish the Tate Center for Entrepreneurship as the first entrepreneurship center in South Carolina in 1994.
NxLeveL®
NxLeveL®’s mission is to serve as an entrepreneur training network to support and strengthen small businesses and promote economic development. NxLeveL® has become the premier entrepreneurial training program in the United States through the development and delivery of curricula designed to teach best practices for small businesses and entrepreneurs nationally.
