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Help Fund Materials for Kid Entrepreneur Think Tank in Bridgeport, Ct.

Your assistance makes it possible for children living below the poverty line to receive materials needed for the Executive Function Skill Entrepreneur Clinic.

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Help Fund Materials for Kid Entrepreneur Think Tank in Bridgeport, Ct.

Help Fund Materials for Kid Entrepreneur Think Tank in Bridgeport, Ct.

Help Fund Materials for Kid Entrepreneur Think Tank in Bridgeport, Ct.

Help Fund Materials for Kid Entrepreneur Think Tank in Bridgeport, Ct.

Help Fund Materials for Kid Entrepreneur Think Tank in Bridgeport, Ct.

Your assistance makes it possible for children living below the poverty line to receive materials needed for the Executive Function Skill Entrepreneur Clinic.

Your assistance makes it possible for children living below the poverty line to receive materials needed for the Executive Function Skill Entrepreneur Clinic.

Your assistance makes it possible for children living below the poverty line to receive materials needed for the Executive Function Skill Entrepreneur Clinic.

Your assistance makes it possible for children living below the poverty line to receive materials needed for the Executive Function Skill Entrepreneur Clinic.

William Stowell-Alonso, MA
William Stowell-Alonso, MA
William Stowell-Alonso, MA
William Stowell-Alonso, MA
1 Campaign |
Bridgeport, United States
$0 USD 0 backers
0% of $5,500 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal

Short Summary

  1. Hi, I am Coach Bill, and  I am a Special Educator, Executive Function Skills Coach and Community Entrepreneur. I hold a graduate degree in Special Education and a bachelors degree in Political Science, and  I work privately with families and individuals with autism, ADHD, or executive function skill deficits. 
  2. I want to give back to my community, especially towns with families at, or near the poverty rate. To do so,  I came up with the idea of piloting a 'Executive Function Skills Development-Kid Entrepreneur Think Tank Clinic. Kids in very low-income neighborhoods have virtually no access to this type of instructional economic and academic empowerment. 
  3. Your help can give these kids a tremendous life skills boost from that trains and molds them to be self-starters, problem solvers, go-getters, and  entrepreneurial in nature. Done repeatedly, these clinics can start a economic  and community revival that is unheard of.

What We Need & What You Get


  • Your funds help pay for basic materials that allow each kid to to hit the ground running. These are: a $10 roll-up tournament-style chess set, a $20 large desktop paper calendar for planning and sequencing academics, as well as entrepreneurial initiatives, a $20 'table top' large planning pad, and  square page notebooks for daily idea/ task planning, and innovating.
  • All receipts will be scanned and posted online and any money left over will be identified, published and allocated for use in low-income level neighborhood clinics.
  • Receipts will be posted online at www.CoachBill.US
  • Extra funds will be deposited in a exclusive bank account at a local bank, and all transactions shall be photo copied and displayed online on CoachBill.US website.

The Impact

  •  What you are doing by helping fund this initiative is allowing me to give these kids a helping hand-up, and getting them away from a sense of welfare entitlement that keeps them receiving hand-outs.
  • I believe that by giving kids and families in impoverished neighborhoods a 'hand-up',  rather than a 'hand-out,' we can literally turn around the projected economic outlook for each individual, family and subsequent new  generation.
  • Kids, and their parents (who also get trained to help them follow-through), learn to plan out, create ideas, practice time management, get a repeated sense of task completion, and fine-tune their goal-directed persistence. What makes this all fun is that it is done in the context of the kids creating their entrepreneurial adventure.
  • I am genuine and passionate about showing kids how easy it is to be more effective and efficient at what they do, be it academic preparation, or coming up with community entrepreneurial endeavors. The development of executive function skills, critical thinking skills, grass roots marketing skills, and paraverbal skills (how we say what we say) all coalesce to boost a person's ability to make a path for themselves.

Other Ways You Can Help

Some people just can't contribute, but that doesn't mean they can't help:

  • Can't help with funds? Maybe you can help by showcasing your location and giving us space to hold a clinic in your hometown.  You could donate the space and Coach Bill will donate 5% of profits to low income bank account to fund future think tanks when geared towards children from neighborhoods living below poverty line. 5% profit transaction would be posted and displayed online for transparency.
  • Still can't help, but want to do something? Tweet us out on Twitter, like us on Facebook, write a blog post about what we are doing. Interview me for a local newspaper.
  • If you are a office store and want to help with discount bulk rate, Coach Bill will post thanks to you at www.CoachBill.US, and establish an on-going business relationship with you, as well as mention your help through social media in making it happen for disadvantaged kids.
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Choose your Perk

3 minute observation

$25 USD
Receive a 3 minute recording of what is happening in the clinic.
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September 2014
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Thank You video

$100 USD
Coach Bill sends you a short video recording thanking you for your donation.
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September 2014
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Coach Bill & Kids Thank You

$500 USD
Coach Bill and class speak with you live to thank you for making material funding possible.
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July 2014
0 out of 8 of claimed

Coach Bill & Kids Thank You

$500 USD
Coach Bill and class speak with you live to thank you for making material funding possible.
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November 2014
0 out of 8 of claimed

15 min video chat

$1,000 USD
Coach Bill video chats with you for 15 minutes discussing current/ future Think Tank plans, and taking your questions.
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July 2014
0 out of 4 of claimed

5 min video chat

$1,000 USD
Coach Bill video chats with you for 5-8 minutes discussing current/ future Think Tank plans, and taking your questions.
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November 2014
0 out of 4 of claimed

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