Press Room

October 8, 2020

Greenfield Community College faculty are facilitating the Ice House Entrepreneurship Program to residents in a Bridge to the Future House for the Hampshire Sheriff’s Office (HSO). Michelle Barthelemy, Business & Technology Professor and HSO’s Title 1 Instructor, as well as Judy Raper, Dean of Community Engagement, began the program on Sept. 30th. The program is designed to help the men develop problem-solving, communication, and critical thinking skills among others. Read the Memorandum

August 10, 2020

Within a few weeks of the public health lockdowns in March, the Georgia Public Library Service (GPLS) decided to offer public librarians an opportunity to develop their entrepreneurial thinking to serve library patrons at home during the pandemic. Through a statewide license, public libraries have had access to the Ice House Entrepreneurship Program – Small Business Edition course online since October 2019, but very few librarians knew much about it until this summer. Two cohorts…

April 30, 2020

Brief History Led by Pradeep Malhotra—the Founder and Chief Visionary Officer of SEAL WisdomNet— Pradeepam Multi Academy (PMA) is a new organization dedicated to empowering people across India to lead purpose-driven lives and to become leaders of change. In May 2018, Pradeep reached out to ELI to learn more about our programs. He was looking around the world for a premiere entrepreneurial mindset course that could be used to help the people of India think…

April 24, 2020

Now residing in North Carolina, retired Miami Police Captain, certified police instructor, and soon-to-be Ice House Facilitator, Lillie Harris, is preparing to launch a new program! Partnering with Techworks, Harris will be using the Ice House Entrepreneurship Programs to teach youth about self-empowerment through problem-solving, interpersonal skills, and the entrepreneurial mindset. Learn more in the video below: If you would like to see the video enlarged, please click the fullscreen button in the bottom right…

February 11, 2020

After attending facilitator training and reading Who Owns the Ice House?, ELI Facilitator, Anna Mastrantoni of Oak Glen Middle School, was inspired by the lessons within the book so much so that she brought them to life for her students with the opening of a school store. Learn more about it in the news article here.