eleven year goals
Our management and team initiatives focused on the following: • Resource Delivery, Awareness and Allocation With hundreds of ventures moving through our program, and each one unique - we want to make sure we are providing an experience that is rich in quality for as many founders as possible. This year, we worked to improve the facilitation of IDEA-specific resources to ventures as well as programs outside of IDEA, and add new resources as times evolve. Our goal was to make sure that ventures are supported by us, and we are filling in the “gaps” of our offerings on a continual basis. • Intentional and Inclusive Actions A part of progressing is recognizing where we are lacking in our knowledge or in providing pathways to opportunities, and working to change. This has been a daily task and isn’t allocated to just one person or time of year. It’s institution-wide. No action just happens, and every small choice made, creates a butterfly effect when working with as many lives as we touch here at IDEA. Our goal is to curate a welcoming environment for the entire entrepreneurial community and stand strong in our resolve to rise all boats, and do our part to not allow barriers to keep entrepreneurship from coming from anywhere. As a part of this initiative, there was a clear focus on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, including highlighting diversity within our ventures, our management team, and faculty.
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