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Veteran's Education   TVC Veteran Education Initiative The TVC Veteran Education Initiative brings courses, customized modules, resources, information, mentoring and counseling to significant numbers of Veterans nationwide for the first time in America’s history. It does so in both face-to-face networks and through E-learning alternatives. Education services are developed and delivered through eight regional education centers across the United States in Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Denver, Flint, Philadelphia, San Diego and St. Louis. The most exciting of the new E-learning ventures reach significant numbers of underserved Veterans in VA hospitals, returning Guard and Reserve units, currently transitioning servicemen and women as well as large rural and minority Veteran populations. Each of the regional education centers lead entrepreneurial learning activities in their metropolitan areas and surrounding states. Business courses are taught on a regular basis to meet a mosaic of Veteran needs from new business ideas to mature business market niche development. Independent seminars are held on hot business topics and modular approaches make piecing together just-in-time programs effective for Veteran adult learners. Veteran business mentors are a centerpiece of the program. Vets teaching Vets with real world experience in successful business strategies is key to the unusual success of the TVC Veteran Education Initiative. Veterans are served by a cornucopia of education strategies that support our extraordinary success rate of over 63% for new business start-ups. The new E-learning ventures include three pillars of Veteran entrepreneurship education: Business Skills, Basic Skills and Career Skills. Courses and modules will be delivered from our website. These suites of skill courses will provide Veterans with a first-of–its-kind capability to deliver any of a wide range of competencies from marketing to applying for a business loan. By partnering with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the Small Business Administration and its Small Business Development Center Network, the Veterans Administration, the Department of Defense, WestHall Alliance, many community colleges and universities such as the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Georgia, San Diego Southwestern College as well as many other private organizations and government agencies, the best of the best educational courses and services can be offered to Veterans on-line. Through this portal Veterans can be served worldwide supporting an educational learning continuum for all Veteran learning needs. Consumers of our education experiences tell of our success the best: From Terry Hawkins, Vietnam Veteran: “It’s just the knowledge that your aren’t by yourself. To know that there is a group of Veterans who understand what you need and are pulling for you rejuvenates you. Because of our mentors and the education program, doors are opening up for us. What we have gained…is priceless.” From Rodney Davis, Service-Disabled Minority Veteran: “Most people would not believe the success we have had, considering we have only been in business for eleven months. Even I don’t believe it sometimes. But we owe our success to TVC and the education programs. You can’t quantify the value of what we learned, and it truly has been the key to our success.” The National Veterans Business Development Corporation |
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