Seeking to Fund Teachers Who Include Students with Disabilities in Student Run Businesses August 24th, 2011

UCLA Tarjan Center and SAGE Mitsubishi Inclusion will fund up to three schools to include students with and without disabilities in, socially responsible, student run businesses. Like any business, socially responsible businesses, provide a needed product or service to the community. Socially responsible businesses take extra efforts to help people and protect the planet.

The selected schools will receive an annual $2000-$2,500 Project Stipend to support their participation. The teachers in selected schools will be designated as a SAGE-Mitsubishi Inclusion Fellows. In addition, each selected school will receive a video camera. The students participating in the student run businesses, at the selected schools, will be responsible for shooting video footage of their experience. These individual team videos will be compiled and edited to create a "Making Entrepreneur Inclusion Happen" project video, which will demonstrate best practices for including all students in entrepreneur leadership.

Also, each student business team, within the selected schools, will receive a public relations package (including T-shirts, buttons and other promotional materials) and be expected to promote inclusion in their school and local community. If a team desires, they can also participate in the national SAGE competition, where their room and board will be covered. Successful applicants will be funded for a 21 month program period (approximately 2 school years) 10/31/2011 through 8/1/2013. The second year of funding is contingent upon satisfactory performance in year one, and other programmatic decisions.

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