About the Venture Fund

Introducing The Venture Fund.

Through the support of our funders, our extraordinary Education Entrepreneur Fellows, and our partnerships with premier entrepreneurial education organizations like Teach For America, College Summit, The New Teacher Project and Diploma Plus, Indianapolis is rapidly becoming an epicenter for education entrepreneurship in America.

We created the Venture Fund to help recruit Teach For America, College Summit, The New Teacher Project and Diploma Plus to Indianapolis, investing just over $3 million in these innovative and proven organizations.  We are uniquely positioned to expand these programs in Indianapolis and recruit other highly successful entrepreneurial education organizations. The power of the Venture Fund is that it is bringing to Indianapolis the nation’s most successful entrepreneurial organizations – those that have already established a remarkable track record of success.

"About 50% of students growing up in low income communities won't graduate from high school by the time they're 18 years old. Those who do graduate will perform on average at an eighth-grade level." Diploma Plus is changing this.

– National Assessment of Educational Progress, 2005.

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