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.

"In one large urban school district, a student who has three good teachers in a row ends up at the 76th percentile, compared with the 27th percentile for a student with three less capable instructors. But college graduates with high test scores are less likely to take [teaching] jobs." Teach For America is changing this.

– “Good teaching matters…a lot,” Thinking K-16, 1999. Who Will Teach? 1991.