Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at
World Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
The Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, through our 7 Generation Management (7G Mgmt) brand, supports new and current entrepreneurs in starting their new ventures and/or growing an established business. Also, all of the services include educational workshops, self-paced courses, and more. Our goal with business advisory, consulting, and management services are designed to help each client become self-sufficient over time. Receive direct support in starting or growing your business with our resources.
Types of Services
Business Development
Our business development services consist of tasks and processes to develop and implement growth within and between companies. It is the creation of long-term value for a company from customers, markets, and relationships. It is the overall arching service that provides you with a variety of business resources to improve your business.
Community Engagement
Community Engagement is the process of working together with and through groups of people affiliated by geographic proximity, special interest, or similar situations to address issues. It encompasses strategic partnerships, event planning and management, and volunteer management. It takes a grassroots approach to accomplishing your goals.
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Marketing and Communications
Our MarComm or marketing and communications services provide you with both digital and print marketing support to help improve your engagement with the greater community. Also, it includes website systems to provide a stationed presence for your community to learn more, engage, and for you to capture information from them.
Grants and Fundraising
For many organizations, grants and fundraising are the main way to sustain the organization. Our grants services help you with the searching and application process for grants. Our fundraising services take a different approach than traditional fundraising and help you diversify the ways your organization raises funds to operate the business.
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Business Development
Our business development services consist of tasks and processes to develop and implement growth within and between companies. It is the creation of long-term value for a company from customers, markets, and relationships. It is the overall arching service that provides you with a variety of business resources to improve your business.
The business development service combines advisory and consulting with education and tools to help you approach your business’ growth differently. It focuses on helping you take an innovative approach to your business through advice, guidance, and direction on your business.
Service retainer before grants and discounts:
$1,432.00 per month
Contract terms: 6-months or 12-months
Business Advisory
Advisors identify issues and tasks before they become a problem and share their opinion and insight with the stakeholders. We raise concerns in an adequate way and help to address work items in order to improve operations. The advisors usually decide on their own how much of their own time they invest in the activities, based on the severity of the issues.
Business Consulting
Consultants are engaged in fulfilling pre-defined terms such as solving problems or underlying constraints. You present our team with a task after the need to solve a particular problem has already been identified. We will prepare options for how to solve the problem and then discuss the pros and cons with the clients. In rare cases, we are used to replace a management position.
Leadership Development
Leadership development is the process that helps expand an individual’s capacity to perform leadership roles in companies. Leadership roles are those that facilitate the execution of an organization’s strategy through building alignment, winning mindshare, and growing the capabilities of others. Our services help your team or clients build these skills.
Strategic Planning
Strategic planning is the process of documenting and creating a direction for your business—by assessing both where you are and where you’re going. The strategic business plan gives you a place to record your: Mission, Vision, Values, Long-term goals, and Action plans. The process consists of different phases, listening tours, and more to capture the full scope of your growth needs.
Community Engagement
Community Engagement is the process of working together with and through groups of people affiliated by geographic proximity, special interest, or similar situations to address issues. It encompasses strategic partnerships, event planning and management, and volunteer management. It takes a grassroots approach to accomplishing your goals.
The community engagement service combines management services with education and tools to help you approach your business’ growth differently. It focuses on helping you take an innovative approach to your business through direction and management of parts of your business.
Service retainer before grants and discounts:
$3,045.00 per month
Contract terms: 6-months or 12-months
Events Management
Events are great ways to engage with your community and educate new members of your community. Our event services help you plan both virtual and in-person events that will create remarkable experiences for your community. Also, we will help you with the management of the event and support you with registration all the way to a closing survey for attendees.
Grassroots Marketing
Grassroots marketing, also called guerrilla marketing, is an approach businesses use to target highly specific audiences. A grassroots approach aims to engage with a smaller audience and encourage them to promote the brand via word of mouth. Compared to traditional marketing methods, this is more of a bottom-up approach rather than a top-down one.
Strategic Partnerships
A strategic partner is another business entity with which you form an agreement to share resources with the mission of growth and mutual success. There are different types of strategic partnerships, such as horizontal partnership, vertical partnership, equity partnership, and joint venture. Our goal is to help you build partnerships for your business’ success.
Volunteer Management
For nonprofit organizations, having volunteers and interns helps to strengthen some of the operations required to succeed in delivering services and products. You need an excellent volunteer and internship program to help them feel supported and like they can succeed while working with you. We will help you design and manage that process.
Marketing and Communications
Our MarComm or marketing and communications services provide you with both digital and print marketing support to help improve your engagement with the greater community. Also, it includes website systems to provide a stationed presence for your community to learn more, engage, and for you to capture information from them.
The marketing and communication service combines management services with education and tools to help you approach your business’ growth differently. It focuses on helping you take an innovative approach to your business through direction and management of your marketing.
Service retainer before grants and discounts:
$3,257.00 per month
Contract terms: 6-months or 12-months
Competitor Analysis
The competitive analysis in marketing is an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of your current and potential competitors. This analysis provides both an offensive and defensive strategic context to identify opportunities and threats. Profiling combines all of the relevant sources of competitor analysis into one framework for an efficient and effective strategy.
Print Advertising
Print advertising is a form of marketing that uses physically printed media to reach customers on a broad scale. Ads are printed in hard copy across different types of publications such as newspapers, magazines, brochures, or direct mail. People interact with print advertising in ways that are different from digital advertising. For instance, a viewer has a much higher chance of recalling an ad in print format than digital.
Social Media Marketing
Social media marketing consists of the use of social media and social networks to market your products and services. Social media marketing provides you with a way to engage with existing customers and reach new ones while allowing you to promote their desired culture, mission, or tone. Also, it includes engaging with influencers to help spread your brand.
Website Management
Website Management is part of the Marketing services, but it focuses on primarily providing a stationed presence for your community to learn more about you, engage with you, and for you to capture contact information from them. It’s your best tool since you never know when Facebook, Instagram, and other platforms will no longer be accessible.
Grants and Fundraising
For many organizations, grants and fundraising are the main way to sustain the organization. Our grants services help you with the searching and application process for grants. Our fundraising services take a different approach than traditional fundraising and help you diversify the ways your organization raises funds to operate the business.
The grants and fundraising service combines management services with education and tools to help you approach your business’ growth differently. It focuses on helping you take an innovative approach to your business through direction and management of your fundraising efforts.
Service retainer before grants and discounts:
$2,360.00 per month
Contract terms: 6-months or 12-months
Corporate Sponsorship
Corporate sponsorship support is a payment by a business to a nonprofit organization to further the nonprofit’s mission. The support is generally recognized by the organization with an acknowledgment that the business has supported the nonprofit’s activities, programs, or special event. A successful corporate sponsorship benefits both the charitable nonprofit and its sponsor. We help for-profits find items to sponsor and nonprofits gain sponsors.
Donations
Donations are charitable contributions that support the operations of nonprofit businesses. When given to a 501(c)3 they are tax-deductible. However, you need to have the right tools in place and participate in the right events to create an engaging experience for donors and support them in becoming ambassadors for your nonprofit business. We support you through the full life-cycle of the donor experience.
Fundraising Strategy
Fundraising strategy covers a plethora of fundraising opportunities such as company matching, galas and event auctions, volunteer programs, community prospecting, donor clubs, and more. Having a good strategy in place to ensure everyone has a way to participate in supporting your organization is key. We’re here to support you in developing and executing on that strategy.
Grants
Grants can be funded by either the government or a private entity. Most grants are for nonprofit organizations but some are available to for-profit companies. A grant is a gift to an individual or company that does not need to be paid back. They provide the necessary support for businesses to either sustain during tough periods, such as pandemics, or continue programs that benefit the good of the public.