A Strong Showing in February for Team SHIFT

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February 29, 2024

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Founder’s Perspective: We are off to the race!

As you will read in this edition of “Decision Maker’s Boulevard, 2024 is off to an amazing start for me and SHIFT Enterprise Academy.

With this in mind, we each have a full calendar of events for this year including our second cohort of SHIFT Ventures and the introduction of SHIFT Tours.

OUR IMPACT

From 2021 to 2023 SHIFT Enterprise Academy completed four successful cohorts of our flagship program, “Launching into E-Commerce” impacting 60 entrepreneurs from 8 African nations. The SHIFT Approach: Launching into E-Commerce program will be available 24 hours a day seven days a week on our learning management system (www.launchingintoecommerce.com) on March 4, 2024.  

SHIFT Enterprise Academy using education and technology plans to train an additional 1,000 women, rural, and forward-thinking entrepreneurs this year with our digital learning management system. We believe the more people we introduce to the SHIFT Approach, the more long-term economic mobility our members will realize.

For long term stability, I am positioning SHIFT Enterprise Academy to development ‘SHIFT Forward Centers’ as income generating real estate assets. ‘Forward Centers’ are innovative mixed-use developments that serve as the breeding grounds of SHIFT’s ecosystem and the foundation of SHIFT’s impact.

SHOW YOUR SUPPORT

With this in mind, I want to encourage you to take advantage of the SHIFT Enterprise Academy ‘Best Year Ever’ membership drive before it concludes on March 3, 2024.

When you support SHIFT Enterprise Academy through membership you are supporting a unique ecosystem of rural entrepreneurs, women entrepreneurs, forward thinking entrepreneur, and SME executives.

As you support SHIFT Enterprise Academy you will realize opportunities for leadership in global community building, group travel concierge services, project-based investment opportunities, and more.  

TAKE ACTION

To support SHIFT Enterprise Academy through membership, complete your subscription on our website.

To support SHIFT Enterprise Academy with an in-kind contribution, complete your transaction on our website.

To stay up to date on the latest SHIFT news subscribe to our newsletter “Decision Maker’s Boulevard”

Annual Membership: $498    $98

Lifetime Membership: $1982  $498

Peace be unto you,

Ethan Brisby, Creator of ‘The SHIFT Approach’, President, SHIFT Enterprise Academy, Inc

SHIFT Enterprise Academy, Inc is a not-for-profit member managed impact driven organization based in Texas, USA currently expanding its footprint in the East Africa Community with a focus on Uganda and Kenya. Your support means everything to us.

SHIFT News: February ‘24 in review

African American History Month Spotlight: P. Eugene Jackson

Texas A&M University spotlights SHIFT Enterprise Academy in ‘Aggie Conversations’

P. Eugene Jackson worked on some of NASA’s most landmark projects with over 42 years of service

Listen to the Interview and watch P. Eugene Jackson’s presentation about his life and career working on the International Space Station with Russian engineers and more.

The archived interview will be available in March from the Association of Former Students

East Africa travel concierge service introduced

SHIFT Tours makes it easier for Team SHIFT members to explore opportunities in East Africa and beyond.

As part of the ‘Best Year Ever’ campaign, SHIFT recently introduced a new benefit for its international member base, a travel concierge service known as SHIFT Tours. The service plans and promotes business and leisure expeditions to strategic East African locations.

SHIFT announced groups trip to Uganda, Kenya, and Ethiopia for 2024. We are here to help you make your voyage to East Africa a seamless and productive executive experience.

SHIFT Tours also offers customized travel experiences for member seeking to discover business and personal opportunities where we have contacts.

Expanding and Mining SHIFT’s Network

Seeking greater impact and increased funding through strategic partnerships

Women’s Entrepreneurship Forum Africa in partnership with AllGreen Energy hosted an exhibitions for All Green’s ‘Smart Cooker.’ SHIFT is a partner with WEFA promoting capacity building amongst women led enterprises.

We hosted a mastermind meet up between multiple organizations working in the business and investment summit promotion space to bridge the gap between Africa and the greater diaspora.

In other News from SHIFT

One of our US based affiliates, Movement Church in Birmingham, Alabama is preparing to open a community health center. Read the article here.

New Content Available on our socials and YouTube

Follow SHIFT Enterprise Academy across all socials for more educational and informative content.

Enterpriser Spotlight 

One of the most impactful outcomes SHIFT is seeking over the next 36 months is to strengthen its evolving ecosystem of entrepreneurs and executives of small businesses (Enterprisers as we call them).

In doing so, Team SHIFT believes we will strengthen supply chains creating opportunities for collaboration and deal making along the way.

As a baseline example, in February, House of Kiracho Restaurant and Café, owned by Enterpriser, Mariah Kiracho partnered with Spring 2023 cohort Enterpriser, Micah of God to host Coffee Talk, a unique meet up experience.

Coffee 4 Talk leverages conversation cards created by Micah of God to create a safe space for dialogue amongst friends and acquaintances.

House of Karacho is located in Kyaliwajjala off Naalya - Namugongo Road just past Mogas.

As we expand our reach, SHIFT will be more intentional about the linkages it creates when incubating early stage businesses across various sectors.

Looking ahead to March

FUNDRAISING From March 1 - March 31, 2024 SHIFT is issuing a Private Placement Memorandum for investment opportunities into SHIFT Ventures: Cohort 2 - “The Merchants”

OVERSIGHT Board of Advisers Interest Meeting(s) March 9 & 12 at 7pm EAT/10am CST

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING Launching into E-Commerce our first asynchronous learning cohort begins March 12

INCUBATOR PROGRAMMING SHIFT Ventures Cohort 2: “The Merchants” opens registration with RFPs March 4, 2024

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Jinja Business and Investment Summit hosted by the Africa Center for Economic Dialogue, March 14 – 15, 2024. SHIFT will be represented at this event and Ethan Brisby will give a keynote speech to those in attendance.

EAST AFRICA BUSINESS EXPEDITION SHIFT Tours, March 10-23

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING Master’s Class: Building Capacity for Export Services, March 11

MEMBERSHIP DRIVE Ends March 3, 2024

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Mantle of Deborah - Uganda, March 17, 2024

Take Action

When you support SHIFT Enterprise Academy through membership you are supporting a unique ecosystem of rural entrepreneurs, women entrepreneurs, forward thinking entrepreneur, and SME executives.

To support SHIFT Enterprise Academy’s non profit work and community building through membership, complete your subscription on our website.

To support SHIFT Enterprise Academy’s work with an in-kind contribution, complete your transaction on our website.

Team SHIFT Annual Membership:   $498    $98

Team SHIFT Lifetime Membership:    $1982  $498

To stay up to date on the latest SHIFT Enterprise Academy expansion news subscribe to our newsletter “Decision Maker’s Boulevard”