A new online program between Butler County Community College and the Community Partnership will give students a chance to study entrepreneurship.
The program is called CO.STARTERS and it’s free for students who fall below the poverty line in Butler County. The program’s goal is to remove social and educational barriers to enterprise development.
Business topics in the CO.STARTERS Entrepreneurship Certificate program range from working styles, team-building and obstacles to raising capital, growth plans and goal-setting.
Participants who finish the CO.STARTERS Entrepreneurship Certificate program’s nationally recognized and licensed introductory entrepreneurship curriculum will earn a noncredit BC3 Certificate of Completion through the college’s Workforce Development division’s professional education and certificates, and four BC3 credits in introduction to entrepreneurship and in financial literacy.
There will also be five full-tuition scholarships funded by Community Partnership for Butler County residents who complete the course.
Community action agencies such as Community Partnership Inc. were created as a result of former President Lyndon B. Johnson’s war on poverty in the mid-1960s. The state Department of Community and Economic Development in 2018 designated Community Partnership Inc. to serve Butler County.
The five scholarship recipients will also receive case management services from the Center for Community Resources, Butler, access to childcare subsidies, financial literacy training and a year’s worth of personal business mentorship in their field or a related field, Curry said.
Prospective participants can register for the CO.STARTERS Entrepreneurship Certificate program at bc3.edu/costarters. The deadline to register is June 13.
For more information, contact Curry at (724) 931-3100.