The Hulsey Foundation

Programs

The heart of The Hulsey Foundation’s mission is fulfilled through its programs and services. As an introduction, the following examples are summarized:

Business Coaching & Entrepreneurial Training
Through a program partner, Atlas Group, Inc., The Hulsey Foundation offers a comprehensive business development, coaching and entrepreneurial training program to business owners who employ less then 150 persons. Participating businesses gain assistance in helping their business reach its potential in generating the rewards their owners' desire. Through the installation of effective operating systems, business owners are to derive predictable results while freeing their business’ dependence on their daily attention. In the last fiscal year, over 3,467 companies were visited by student interns. 204 benefited from our services; 79 participated in an extensive business evolution; and 16 chose to maintain an extended ongoing business development and coaching curricula.
Business Development Capital
Often a business needs more then some advice or new tools. Sometimes additional capital is needed in order for them to reach their potential. With the added advantage of being intimately familiar with the business operations and management through its Business Coaching & Entrepreneurial Training Program, The Hulsey Foundation is in a good position to assess the viability of a hand-up that includes some financial support for inventory financing, new equipment or expansion. The Hulsey Foundation extends to its members a chance to lend at attractive rates to The Foundation’s Business Development Fund, which becomes the resource for financial assistance when needed.
Business Development Fund supported projects might include:

Consolidated StoneWorks, Inc.
Angel In Chains
The Conscientious Objector
Student Scholarships (Earn-Learn Opportunities)
The Hulsey Foundation works to provide students with a valuable hands-on education by offering scholarship incentives for student participation in market place activities. In addition to complementing the academics, earn-learn projects assist students with their efforts to avoid debt and afford the education they desire. Projects have included:

working with ADRA to support the development of community banks for underprivileged, would-be entrepreneurs, in Honduras;

providing translation and development assistance for a domestic company seeking international expansion;

student participation in employment opportunities associated with The Hulsey Foundation’s operations or its services such as students contacting local business owners to market the Foundation’s Business Coaching & Entrepreneurial Training services; and

Operations associated with the Business Development Capital Funds such as several student positions offered by Consolidated StoneWorks, Inc., one of the Business Development Capital Funds first projects.

Student participation in each of these projects affords students the chance to gain greater confidence and understanding of the overall economic picture associated with any entrepreneurial undertaking. This confidence is seen by The Hulsey Foundation as a key component in fulfilling its charter to inspire, equip and support a new generation of entrepreneurs. The Hulsey Foundation believes that entrepreneurship represents a valuable and critical asset in any developing organization whether it be a new commercial undertaking or the successful execution of an institution or charitable organization’s mission.