Wall College of Business Departments

Each One Teach One Entrepreneurship Institute -
Overview

The idea and the initial funding for the Each One Teach One Entrepreneurship Institute orginated with the Thomas P. Brown Jr. family of Conway. Brown,

a retired businessman and entrepreneur, believes that many young people with the ideas and the drive to start their own businesses often lack opportunity, experience and guidance.

"We believe that through their early exposure to business, young people can be successfully motivated, nurtured and given the education and real life experiences that are pivotal to the accomplishment of their dreams and that will enable them to thrive as adults in the American way," said Brown.

Brown and his wife Jessie, a retired professor of early childhood education at Coastal Carolina University with their son Thomas P. Brown III, a Coastal Carolina University alumnus and businessman of Richmond, VA., made the establishing gift to Coastal in 2007.

The Each One Teach One Entrepreneurship Institute serves both Coastal Carolina University students and area middle and high school students. It is a unique partnering among three Coastal Carolina University outreach centers: the Biddle Center for Teaching, Learning, and Community Engagement, the E. Craig Wall Sr. College of Business Administration Leadership and Corporate Development Programs and the BB&T Center for Economic and Community Development. The Each One Teach One Entrepreneurship Institute serves to provide students with the tools they need to build prosperous, successful futures through education and business. Included in this mix will be the creation of scholarships and internships. Activities will include a summer program on campus in 2009 that will focus on idea generation, development and marketing. Organizers of the program anticipate eventually expanding the program across the five-county area that the University serves.

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