Press Releases

The Mind Trust announces second class of Education Entrepreneur Fellows.

12/4/2008
Organization Will Invest $730,000 in Three Outstanding Social Entrepreneurs to Help Incubate Their Ideas to Transform Public Education in the Nation’s Most Under-Served Communities

The Mind Trust begins selection process for the Education Entrepreneur Fellowship

9/29/2008
Hundreds of applications pour in from education entrepreneurs interested in revamping America's public education system.

The Mind Trust announces recipient of first-ever Education Entrepreneur Fellowship

5/1/2008
The Mind Trust announced today the recipient of the first-ever Education Entrepreneur Fellowship, a national incubator for transformative education ventures.

The Mind Trust invests $455,000 to support the full launch of College Summit in Indianapolis

3/10/2008
College Summit has selected Indianapolis as its next site and will fully launch its highly successful college access program in Indianapolis in the 2008-09 school year.

The Mind Trust to support continuation of Teaching Fellows in IPS, expansion to charter schools

12/31/2007
The Mind Trust invests $105,000 to support continuation of Indianapolis Teaching Fellows in IPS, expansion to seven charter schools

Teach For America Expanding to Indianapolis in 2008

9/24/2007
City Leaders, The Mind Trust and Lilly Endowment join Teach For America to expand educational opportunity for students of Indianapolis Public Schools

The Mind Trust launches Education Entrepreneur Fellowship

9/10/2007
The Fellowship will provide the nation’s most promising education entrepreneurs with the support they need to develop and launch initiatives that focus on wholly new ways of confronting public education’s most vexing problems

Dr. H. Douglas Williams to lead major new initiative focused on curbing dropout crisis

7/25/2007
The focus of the initiative and Dr. Williams’ work will be on creating innovative new high school options designed to serve young people for whom traditional settings have not been successful.
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“Too many talented kids are denied the opportunity to fulfill their promise because our schools don't effectively serve them. Education entrepreneurs attack problems at their roots and transform the system, which is why I am so excited by The Mind Trust's Fellowship.”

– Kevin Johnson, Mayor, City of Sacramento, CA and former NBA All-Star