funded ideas (2007)

BeyondMotherhood.com

BeyondMotherhood.com is a launch pad for women who want more than the title "mom". The site is a niche job board specializing in helping mothers leverage their education and experience, while providing them with flexible opportunities. It connects employers with the "untapped" workforce, stay at home mothers.




iGuiders
iGuiders provides an online business mentor that offers tactical business guidance for emerging entrepreneurs and small business owners in Greater Cleveland. Business iGuiders quickly and easily walk the user through logic-based decision trees to determine exact business needs, and connect the user to useful, task-related search results and local resources.






COLLEGE INTERNS FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY 
Brother Chalres McElroy, adjunct social justice professor at John Carroll University, is starting a program that will assist local manufacturers in applying for energy efficiency grants from the state of Ohio Dept of Development. College interns will help write grants to the state, which has approximately $1MM available for small manufacturers. CIEE estimates that grants will average $50,000 and hopes to assist five manufacturers in the first year. 

National Society of Black Engineers, Jr
 NSBE Jr is designed to stimulate the interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields, or STEM. The goal is to encourage students in grades K–12 to attend college and pursue technical degrees. The program provides activities with practicing African-American engineers to help students discover firsthand how engineering and technology relate to the world around them and discover the excitement of academic excellence, leadership, technical development and teamwork.


Pop Up City Cleveland
Pop Up City will temporarily occupy vacant buildings and vacant land with a series of short-term, high impact events, such as outdoor markets, temporary restaurants and shops, art installations, concerts, landscape interventions, and sports and recreation events. Pop Up City will collaborate with private sector developers, community development corporations, entrepreneurs, artists, and design practitioners. Pop Up City will also hold workshops throughout the year to introduce temporary use models and strategies to help community leaders and members implement their own temporary projects.



VPLAY
Jiazhou Yang, a then 18 year old student from University School, wants to capitalize on video game trends by holding and promoting cool video game tournaments for high school and college age students. Jiazhou hopes to make Cleveland a cool place for young people while raising philanthropic awareness by donating a portion of proceeds to charity. 



World School Games

World School Games is an Olympic style athletic and cultural event for teams or individuals currently enrolled in a secondary school – international, boarding or private – from across the globe.  Teams or individual athletes participate as representatives of their school, athletic conference or city.

The six day event consists of medal contending athletic competitions, Olympic style opening ceremony, cultural and social events.  Promotion and sharing of cultural ideals by the host city and among athletes is a centerpiece of the Games experience.  All athletes and delegates are housed together at a local university.