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Is This WhatCHANGE Feels Like? The State of Aging in America

Boomer Entrepreneurs:Building Sustainable Businesses, Creating Jobs

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Senior Entrepreneurship Works is a

Nonprofit Organization Co-Created by

Three Senior Entrepreneurs


• Founder - 3 Successful Social Enterprises

• Former Foundation Director

• 30 Year Award-Winning Veteran of the Publishing

Industry

• Author and Creative Writing Professor

Elizabeth Isele


• The Lawrence N. Field Professor of Entrepreneurship, Baruch College, The City

University of New York

• " 2010 Outstanding Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year”

• Author, The Second Chance Revolution: Working for Yourself after 50

• Initiated and supervised the largest study of minority entrepreneurs in the United

States, the National Minority Business Owners Survey

• Entrepreneur in the radio broadcasting industry where he headed two companies

that operated 23 radio stations throughout the United States for which he raised

more than $100 million in venture capital, private equity, and bank financing

Edward G. Rogoff, Ph.D


• Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management, Baruch College, The City

University of New York

• Director of Development and Sponsored Research at the Lawrence N. Field

Center for Entrepreneurship at Baruch College

• Founder and Executive Director, of the CUNY Institute for Virtual Enterprise (IVE)

• A serial entrepreneur with start-ups in Aviation, Marketing and Advertising

including the iconic "I Love New York” campaign), and Global Youth Service

Stuart Schulman, Ed.D


http://www.aeoworks.org/index.php/site/page/alliance


Thank You!

Elizabeth Isele

[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]


BOOM! Partners: A collaboration engaging Southeast Michigan’s adults ages 50+ in ways that help to BOOM the region’s new economy

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White House Expresses Support for Kauffman-

New Economy Initiative to Revitalize MichiganJune 24, 2009 32GRANTMAKERS IN AGING

BOOM! THE NEW ECONOMY

Supported by Grants from

The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan

Partners & Sponsors

AARPCivic VenturesCorporation for a Skilled WorkforceLuella Hannan Memorial FoundationOperations ABLETransport Riders United

TECHTOWN

Supported by Grants from

American Reinvestment and Recovery ActCity of Detroit Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganGeneral MotorsHenry Ford Health SystemsHerbert & Grace Dow FoundationHUDHudson-Webber FoundationKresge FoundationMichigan Economic Development CorporationNew Economy InitiativeWayne CountyWayne State University

Partners & Sponsors

Ann Arbor SparkAutomation AlleyBizdomDetroit Regional Institute for Clinical and Translational MedicineDTEFirst Step FundExim BankHebrew Free Loan FundIvey Institute for Health InnovationKauffman FoundationLawrence Tech UniversityMacomb CountyMichbioMichigan Department of HealthMichigan Small Business Technology Development CenterMichigan State UniversityMicrosoft NextEnergy Odette School of Business, University of WindsorUS Department of CommerceUS-Mexico Foundation for ScienceUS Small Business AdministrationUniversity of MichiganUniversity Research CorridorVan Andell Research Institute


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