Emerging Entrepreneurs Inc

Powered by a Community Development Grant from Wells Fargo, “Service to Success” is an ambitious economic initiative; providing our service-members and their families with direct access to a variety of career-focused resource programs. Our simple goal is to align the talented individuals of our nation’s military with valuable Employment, Transitional, Educational, Entrepreneurial, and even Social resources from across the region; bringing together a range of non-profit service providers for the benefit of those who have sacrificed so much in defense of our country. Service to Success aims to provide our veterans, reservists, transitioning service-members, and military spouses with workforce preparedness training and job placement resources. The program is designed to equip our nation’s heroes with access to resume writing assistance, skills evaluations, interview prep, and other career development resources as they seek to transition back into the job market.

The Urban Leadership Lab™ provides our youth with access to the kinds of resources that will advance their capacity to do (and become) their best! Our program brings together non-profits, community & faith leaders, industry executives, university personnel, and volunteers to introduce creative ways of engaging our community’s under-served youth. Just as our non-profit organization uses Entrepreneurship as a pathway for community development, our lab aim to surround young people with startup tools, leadership training, and community service opportunities; all in an effort to help our teens unlock the full range of their potential! We’ve not only joined the White House’s "Computer Science for All” campaign as one of its 2016 service organizations, but have also joined forces with The Emily K. Center, First LEGO League, The LEGO Foundation, and others to offer a productive & safe environment for kids to explore their creativity. Programs include: STEM programs, ranging from a LEGO robotics teams to an online Coding Academy; An online & classroom-style entrepreneurship curriculum that introduces young people to the core functions of launching a business or social enterprise; Group achievement, mentorship, and community service programs; and Monthly learning labs, designed to help our young people fully envision themselves in positions of leadership.

As a registered federal contractor, our organization is committed to not only meeting the servicing needs of our contractors but creating inroads for others to benefit from our broader community involvement. This includes extending resource training in the contracting places of performance, engaging key community stakeholders to improve best-practices, and utilizing the proceeds from our contracting portfolio to advance our non-profit efforts. Primary federal contracting services Include (but are not limited to): Economic Development, Capacity Building, and Grassroots Outreach Services, Administration of Urban Planning and Community/Rural Development, Educational Support Services, Professional Management Development Training, Vocational Rehabilitation and Workforce Readiness Services, Small Business & Entrepreneurial Development Training, and
Corporate Social Responsibility Consulting Services.

Developed in 2013 as a way of broadening our organization’s partnership opportunities, The Champions Leadership Conference (or ChampsCon™) aims to bring together the nation’s top service leaders, entrepreneurs, advocates, influencers, researchers, and resources within the public & private sectors to develop and strategically enact initiatives designed to combat the disparities that exists within our communities. In 2012, eMerging Entrepreneurs’ Founder T.J. Breeden received the White House’s “Champions of Change” award for his leadership in helping veterans transition through entrepreneurship, which prompted his desire to collaborate with other service-providers as a way of growing the organization’s capacity to make an impact! The goal of these types of gatherings is to advance intellectual discussions that will spearhead collaboration, influence, and research. Our first multi-day convening for example (held on January 31st, 2014 in Washington, DC) focused specifically on exploring the connections between Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and veteran’s socio-economic issues; through which we hope to make meaningful strides in identifying solutions and resources that will aid in lowering suicides, unemployment, and homelessness. Like our military gatherings, all other conferences and speaker series extends access to the combined wealth of knowledge of leaders of innovation, business, entrepreneurship, social development, health & wellness, technology, education, community development, and intellectual affluence, to create opportunities for us to come together in support of communities in need.