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Entrepreneurship Center |
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Good Health for Life harnesses a talent pool of desire by offering programs, partnerships and initiatives that provide both aspiring and already-established entrepreneurial cancer survivors with knowledge, resources and tools to help them start and grow their businesses. These efforts include hands-on education and training programs, online resources, peer-to-peer learning, funding and recognizing and celebrating entrepreneurship. Once Good Health for Life Entrepreneurs start their businesses, they have the opportunity to create jobs, wealth and innovation, all of which play a significant role in helping them improve the quality of their lives and others’ while managing their health. The Entrepreneurship Center offers a one year, 5-module program of proven business practices taught by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. The Entrepreneurship Center’s programs are designed to help business builders take an in-depth look at their entire venture to meet the business goals formulated through the Center’s curriculum. Often this includes helping the entrepreneurial cancer survivor broaden his/her network, access capital and implement best practices. The Good Health for Life Entrepreneurship Center’s process is simple and straightforward. We collaborate with our entrepreneurs to help them realize their visions and create tangible value. With deep industry expertise, broad global resources and proven experience, we can mobilize the right people, skills, alliances and technologies. Technology plays an integral role in our business strategy. Indeed, in workplaces across the country, “assistive technology,'' special hardware and software that helps disabled people use everyday office equipment, is becoming more common. Because information and high-tech communications are increasingly the business currency, the opportunity to have more choice in service, product and price will have enormous impact for our entrepreneurs and their enterprises. In a fully competitive market, we know that business telecommunications users will gain maximum value, including better quality service, increased customer responsiveness and lower prices. In addition, our entrepreneurs’ location will no longer be of primary concern as there will be real benefits for small business operators in rural and remote areas who no longer have to struggle to acquire fast and reliable access to basic telecommunications technologies, let alone more sophisticated systems. |
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· More details on the entrepreneurship Process… · More details on the 5-Step Business Development Program... · More details on Work For Life! entrepreneurship Scholarship Program… · Complete our Work For Life! Scholarship Application... · Sponsor an entrepreneur—Work For Life!
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Good Health for Life’s mission is to help cancer survivors discover their passions for living through work — to enhance the quality and length of their survival and to minimize or stabilize adverse effects experienced during cancer survivorship — to live self-sufficiently in healthy communities. Good Health for Life promotes entrepreneurial success at all levels. We work with our healthcare partners, the Stanford University Medical Center and the Women’s Cancer Centers throughout the Western United States to: ◙ create awareness for the powerful healing and economic impact of entrepreneurship, ◙ identify those people whose healthcare professionals feel would benefit from proven programs that enhance the entrepreneurial skills and capabilities of cancer survivors, and ◙ create an environment in which cancer survivors feel empowered to start and grow businesses. In many ways, surviving cancer is a process. It begins the moment cancer enters an individual’s life and continues during and well after treatment is completed. People sometimes use the term survivor to describe anyone who is still alive after having received a diagnosis of cancer. But they also might use it to describe someone with no evidence of active disease after treatment. For many, living with cancer is learning to manage it for the rest of their lives. Though one may be deservedly relieved that they’ve won cancer's major physical battle, the end of treatment may also mean facing many new challenges and concerns. Recovery may require a different way of thinking and relating to others. And despite all of the accommodations employers make for new disabilities, some cancer patients may be forced to reduce work hours or to find new jobs or careers. People with cancer often dramatically change their lives; their diagnosis and treatment become a turning point. Some are motivated to try something new, looking forward with resolve to making their lives more meaningful. Some perceive opportunities, are more motivated to pursue those opportunities and have a greater capacity to start new businesses than others. They want to utilize their remaining years establishing a meaningful legacy. These are the people with whom Good Health for Life seeks to work.
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530.622.9118 530.622.9119—Fax info@ghfl.org |
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Guy Kawasaki, the managing director of Garage Technology Ventures and former chief evangelist of Apple, is coming out with a new book called, The Art of the Start. (http://www.artofthestart.com/) This book is a weapon of mass construction that is the definitive guide for anyone starting anything. It builds upon Guy’s experience as an evangelist, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. |
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