Student Led Entrepreneurship Initiative
​Few Things help an individual more than to place responsibility on him and let him know that you trust him

-Booker T Washington
According to Stevenson, entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity beyond resources controlled.

 “For me, ‘pursuing opportunity beyond resources controlled’ sums up perfectly what I do day-to-day. You need to be inventive, creative, opportunistic, and persuasive, because you rarely have enough resources. Embracing this definition helps me in my role.”

-Harvard Business Review
Solve Hunger Relief Though Awareness, Food Diversion & Entrepreneurship
HOW YOU CAN HELP

INVITE Students to get ENGAGED
INVEST with a Proportionate Leadership Gift
CHAMPION SLEI in your School and Community
Be a Mentor and Thought Leader
Develop Student Leaders through Entrepreneurship by including Millennial in solving our food waste and hunger relief problems in our community.
  • Leveraging student leaders to drive awareness and ignite change in there schools, school districts and community.

In there Schools ... In the School District ...In the Community and Beyond - See more at: 
​Develop the SLEI Student Led Entrepreneurship Initiative.

  • Impacting High school students throughout the state of Indiana

  • Impacting caring agencies in the community and surrounding counties

  • Feeding the hungry by improving food diversion programs awareness 
- See more at: http://www.foodrescue.net/slei.html#sthash.CdNO2Vdz.dpuf
​Challenge millennials in our High Schools to take action.

Solve environmental and hunger issues through food waste diversion & entrepreneurship

Millennials want:
  • To make a difference
  • Own Responsibility
  • To be apart of something bigger than themselves
- See more at: http://www.foodrescue.net/slei.html#sthash.CdNO2Vdz.dpuf
Our new system has been working for us up here in Alaska. From the first day it was a hit!!!  I was expecting some resistance from teachers who don't care to have food in the classrooms and also problems with garbage on the playground but.....none so far. The high school "hungry boys" love finding the fixings for PB & jelly sandwiches from the K-5 crew. A huge problem, that I cannot fix at this time is the recess timing. It IS after lunch and a LOT of kids will come in and dump their trays just to get outside. Maybe next year.  All in all... it was welcomed as a great idea and the school news crew is going to be doing a section on your program...hopefully before school closes for the summer but if not we will be off to a great start next year. We are out the 27th of this month.  I'm currently working on getting a summer food program started because I know a lot of our kids do not get to eat well at home.  This has only been my 2nd year running the kitchen and I've made MANY changes to our waste problem.  I've been in contact with a member of the Sustainable Southeast group that is working on a partnership with the tribal authority to help run an aquaponics site. Also...UAS in Sitka is doing a study on using recycled cardboard to grow mushrooms!!!!  He is getting me that contact info soon.  I'm soooo excited because mushrooms are seriously my passion!!!  I'm already setting up to grow shiitake and other gourmet (but really medicinal) mushrooms at home using alder that has already been dropped around the island. I'm also going to set up at the school to sell and actually make money with our lunch program. I'm looking forward to working with K-12 Food Rescue your fabulous project and help change the habits of our locals. Please feel free to contact me with any more info you may have or just to check on our progress.
 
Sincerely,

​Tricia Clough
STATE DIRECTOR'S OF STUDENT LEADERSHIP