Project description

While the entrepreneurship training for college students is underway, ETPCS is a new project of BCF's Entrepreneurships Education Unit, which is designed for training the trainers of college students. The purpose of the Project is to disseminate entrepreneurship training in colleges and universities across the country. We not only help college students to realize their potential to be entrepreneurs, we also create more opportunities for them to take social responsibilities to serve for others. It is expected that they will disseminate the concepts and theories of entrepreneurship to much wider area, so more people will benefit from them in term of starting business, building confidence and effecting changes of themselves and families.

BCF works with Leagues, job counseling offices and student societies to provide NFTE courses free of charge and disseminate the knowledge of entrepreneurship; BCF also funds entrepreneurship training courses organized by students societies and students.

ETPCS is a special activity of BCF, it is not just an entrepreneurship training course, it is inspired by public benefits, entrepreneurship and responsibilities, it also provides young students with opportunities of making contributions to the society and exhibiting their benevolence and being entrepreneurs. It is also expected that more trainers on entrepreneurs will be trained under this Project.

Project development strategy

To build partnership with Leagues, colleges, student societies, NGOs and other agencies:

•  Train qualified CET and EPF

•  Provide internships for college students to exercise social responsibilities and commerce

•  Provide elementary and middle school students with training of trainers opportunities

•  The focus will be on the poor or other areas that are less commercially developed, the Project strategic development area include southwest, northwest, north China, northeast and mid china.

•  Priorities will be given to the poor college, middle and elementary school students

Project process

Entrepreneurship Training Course （NFTE）Information

Entrepreneurship Training Course is a micro enterprise entrepreneurship course designed for those who received moderate education, the material is prepared by Steve Marioti, who is the founder of National Entrepreneurship Direction Foundation. The material was awarded “Gold Lantern”, which is the top prize of American Education Publishing Houses, it was also rated as one of the top ten entrepreneurship books by New York public libraries.

The 150,000 trainees of the course are from poor households and communities from America, U.K, Belgium, China, Argentina, Mexico, South Africa, India, Salvador , Tanzania and Bermuda,

This course was first introduced into China by BCF, some chapters and case studies associated with China were incorporated, which make it easier to be used and digested by students and guide them to make their own ways to develop. This high-quality course only charges a very low fee or waives fee, by the end of 2006, there are more than 5,500 trainees have received trainings, who included laid-off workers, single moms, migrant workers, disabled and veterans. Courses were organized for trainers of NGOs, schools for migrant workers' children, migrant women who got married with local men, prisoners and farmers who have no land.

There are 20 sessions for the BCF Entrepreneurship Training Course. These 20 sessions will help the trainees to start up and run a micro enterprise.

Project application

1. Qualifications for the applicant

2. Application process



3. Application documents

•  Project proposal

•  Information on project proposal

•  Cost estimates

•  Project application forms