The Mind Trust: Attracting Supporting and Empowering Educational Entreprenuers in Indianapolis, Indiana

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The Mind Trust's mission is to dramatically improve public education for underserved students by empowering education entrepreneurs to develop or expand transformative education initiatives. To achieve this mission, The Mind Trust has two strategies: (1) a nationally unique Education Entrepreneur Fellowship that serves as an incubator for transformative education ventures; and (2) a Venture Fund to recruit to Indianapolis the nation’s most successful entrepreneurial education initiatives.

The Mind Trust, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, was founded in 2006. While building Indianapolis' award-winning charter schools initiative, The Mind Trust's founders, former Mayor Bart Peterson and President and CEO David Harris, saw firsthand the value that education entrepreneurs brought to students in Indianapolis. They sought to reach more students by making Indianapolis one of the most attractive places in the country for talented entrepreneurs to start new educational ventures and to expand those that have been successful elsewhere.