The recipient entity's physical address:
           820 Olive Street, Ste315
Shreveport, LA - Louisiana 71101

The recipient entity's mailing address (if different):
           820 Olive Street, Ste315
Shreveport, LA - Louisiana 71101

Type of Entity (for instance, a nonprofit corporation):  Non-Profit Corporation

If the entity is a corporation, list the names of the incorporators:
          

The last four digits of the entity's taxpayer ID number:  8314

What is the dollar amount of the request?  $100,000

What type of request is this?  Both

Is this entity in good standing with the Secretary of State?  Yes

Provide the name of each member of the recipient entity's governing board and officers:
           Inner-City Entrepreneur Institute
Board of Directors - 2025

Corine Ambler
3647 Elon
Shreveport, LA 71109
Job Corps, Workforce Specialist

Rena Arbuthnot, Secretary
3807 Scenic Drive
Shreveport, LA 71119
Retired, HR Director, Shriners Hospital for Children

Rosetta Boone
1961 Midway Street
Shreveport, LA 71108
Caddo Parish Public Schools Supervisor of Career
and Technical Education

Carl Franklin
910 Pierremont Road, #410
Shreveport, LA 71106
Attorney at Law, Franklin & Associates

Jeremy Green, Vice President
110 Augusta Avenue
Benton, LA 71006
Website Developer, Horntoad

Ashley Briggs
1800 Line Ave
Shreveport, LA 71101
N.S.U. - Director of Academic Services

Kaylon Johnson (Ad Hoc)
1545 Line Ave, Suite 330
Shreveport, LA 71101
IT Specialist, Entrepreneur

Lena Leviston (Ad Hoc)
757 Bernard Blvd
Shreveport, LA 71106
Retired, Caddo Parish Public Schools Supervisor of
Vocational Education

Tonja Prudhomme
525 Sophia Lane
Shreveport, LA 71115
Wiley College

Helen Godfrey-Smith
P.O. Box 32
Gilliam, LA 71029
Retired, CEO, Shreveport Federal Credit Union

Dellanee Wade
3501 Champion Lake Blvd. #1415
Shreveport, LA 71105
SUSLA-Adjunct Instructor

Dr. LaTasha Washington, President
9530 Royalton Dr.
Shreveport, LA 71118
CEO, LTW of Northwest Louisiana

Rudy Morton, Managing Director
2602 Parham Drive
Shreveport, LA 71109

Provide a summary of the project or program:
           ICEI created and launched Shreveport BizCamp in 2001 to service the Shreveport-Bossier City area. BizCamp is an intensive entrepreneur training and life skills program designed to expose low-income, at-risk students living within the inner city of Shreveport, Louisiana and surrounding area to the idea of forming a successful business. BizCamp is designed to teach inner city youth how to create and operate a micro-business enterprise developed from their hobbies or some other creative talent. Inner-city and at risk youth learn the necessary skills to handle all facets of business ownership that will allow them to revitalize their community.

The BizCamp (NFTE) teaching module was created in 1988 by Dr. Steve Mariotti, the visionary who founded The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE). The NFTE teaching model is designed to provide entrepreneurial education to low-income youth from marginalized communities and igniting the entrepreneurial mindset and talents that already existed within them. The NFTE teaching model is approved by the Louisiana Department of Education.

BizCamp is presently a joint collaboration among ICEI, local universities, Caddo Parish Schools and Shreveport Job Corp Center. This collaboration provides critical thinking in the area of math, science and business through entrepreneurship and life skills training.

Students utilize specially designed Microsoft state of the art on-line interactive software and NFTE instructional materials. Students take a pre-test and post-test to evaluate their progress; students learn to develop their own business plan (BizPlan) and present it to a panel of volunteer local business owner judges via a PowerPoint presentation; and student are given seed money to create a small table-top business and compete at the BizCamp Markertplace.

The two week intense curriculum includes classroom and computer lab instruction; guest speakers; field trips, BizPlan competition, Young Entrepreneur Market Place (YEMP) and graduation ceremony.

What is the budget relative to the project for which funding is requested?:
          Salaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . $0
          Professional Services. . . $0
          Contracts . . . . . . . . . . . $0
          Acquisitions . . . . . . . . . $0
          Major Repairs . . . . . . . $0
          Operating Services. . . . $0
          Other Charges. . . . . . . $0

Does your organization have any outstanding audit issues or findings?  No

If 'Yes' is your organization working with the appropriate governmental agencies to resolve those issues or findings?
          Not Applicable

What is the entity's public purpose, sought to be achieved through the use of state monies?
          Our entrepreneur education program (BizCamp) provides internationally-recognized entrepreneurship education, life-skills, financial literacy and leadership training for today’s at-risk youth.

• BizCamp, a joint collaboration among ICEI, local universities, Caddo Parish Schools and the Shreveport Job Corp Center, is an intensive entrepreneurship and life skills program designed to expose at-risk students of Shreveport, Louisiana to the idea of forming a successful business. The program targets 50 – 75 students per year.

• BizCamp students develop their own business plan and present it to a panel of judges. The overall goal is to create and grow a new crop of entrepreneurs for the 21st Century, train 50-75 students per year as funding allows and expand our program to other colleges and community organizations.

What are the goals and objectives for achieving such purpose?
          Course objectives and major outcomes

Students learn the necessary skills to handle all facets of business ownership that will ultimately allow them to revitalize their communities.

1. Students will be able to score higher on Post-assessment test versus Pre-assessment test.
--78% students scored higher.

2. Students will be able to write a Business Plan and deliver a power point presentation to a panel of local judges. Students are judged on Business Plan, with clear mission statement, support evidence and effective organization.

3. Students will design business cards and a table-top “Store Front” to display for the Marketplace activities.

What is the proposed length of time estimated by the entity to accomplish the purpose?
           Jan 2026 - Dec 2026

If any elected or appointed state official or an immediate family member of such an official is an officer, director, trustee, or employee of the recipient entity who receives compensation or holds any ownership interest therein:
     (a) If an elected or appointed state official, the name and address of the official and the office held by such person:
                
    
     (b) If an immediate family member of an elected or appointed state official, the name and address of such person; the name, address, and office of the official to whom the person is related; and the nature of the relationship:
                

     (c) The percentage of the official's or immediate family member's ownership interest in the recipient entity, if any:
                

     (d) The position, if any, held by the official or immediate family member in the recipient entity:
                 

If the recipient entity has a contract with any elected or appointed state official or an immediate family member of such an official or with the state or any political subdivision of the state:
(a) If the contract is with an elected or appointed state official, provide the name and address of the official and the office held by such person: 
               

(b) If the contract is with an immediate family member of an elected or appointed state official:
          Provide the name and address of such person:
              

          Provide the name, address, and office of the official to whom the person is related:
               

          What is the nature of the relationship? 

(c) If the contract is with the state or a political subdivision of the state, provide the name and address of the state entity or political subdivision of the state:
                

(d) The nature of the contract, including a description of the goods or services provided or to be provided pursuant to the contract:
               


Contact Information
name:  Rudy Morton 
                                       address:  820 Olive Street, Ste315
Shreveport, LA 71101
                                       phone:  (318) 658-7275
                                       fax: 
                                       e-mail:  shreveportbizcamp@gmail.com
                                       relationship to entity:  Managing Director