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Since our founding in 2010 as Students in Free Enterprise (we were renamed "Enactus" in 2012), the Regent University Enactus team has been involved in numerous impactful projects over the years. Our community of students has built and supported businesses locally and abroad to better the lives of people everywhere, seeking to glorify God through the transformative power of business.
Past Projects
EmpowerNET (2019 - 2020):
EmpowerNET was an online class that taught the process of starting a business. Rather than provide temporary material aid, it strives to help entrepreneurs build lasting solutions in countries like Tanzania, Uganda, and Ghana.
In 2019-2020, EmpowerNET continued the business education course for people in poverty across Tanzania, Uganda, and Ghana, with 1600+ course graduates and counting. In addition, the course is potentially being offered in Brazil, Haiti, Armenia, South Sudan, and Kenya, expanding their global reach. They developed and tested a sustainable revenue model wherein they taught the content of the business course to homeschool students in the US. The funds raised from the homeschooling program went toward expanding the program in other countries and advertising the course.
At the end of 2020, an external organization bought EmpowerNET.
Bee's Knees (2019 - 2020):
Bee's Knees fought the bee epidemic by partnering local farmers with people in more urban areas who wanted to start beehives but didn't have the land for it. Secondary projects were frog watching and on-campus battery recycling.
Cheetah Project (2017 - 2019):
The Cheetah Project was an entrepreneurial training project. The team was lead by a project manager and created training programs for the most important aspects of entrepreneurship. There were over 7 units, each a week long. This project was designed to give educations to aspiring entrepreneurs in African countries such as; Uganda and Malawi. It went live in June 2017. For 2019-2020 it was reinvented as EmpowerNET.
Tax Project:
This project was led by a project manager. The goal of this project was to assist the military on the Langley-Eustis base with their taxes. The team partnered with military bases in the area to provide free tax services to active duty military and veterans. It took many hours of training materials and security clearances to accomplish this.
Hospitality Project:
The project was lead by three assistant project managers and one project manager. There were three branches in this project: the Ordinary, the Gift Shop, and Swan Terrace. With our help:
Promise Partners:
Promise Partners was an education project geared toward teaching entrepreneurship and free market economics to middle school and high school students. Initally accepted into a local middle school, Promise Partners shifted focus to the homeschool community. The project educated high school students about business through classroom instruction and hands-on projects. At the end of the project, students created a business or an event that they had to organize, operate, and use to earn a profit.
Boda-Boda Project, aka Hail a Cab in Uganda:
Boda-bodas are motor bikes and are the main form of public transportation in Uganda. These boda-bodas function similarly to taxis. Purchasing a boda-boda, to begin one’s own “taxi-service” is a powerful opportunity, but many qualified individuals lack the funds to get started; therefore, providing loans for these entrepreneurial individuals is crucial. Through the Boda-Boda Project Enactus members, working in partnership with the Community at Heart Ministry, connected boda drivers in Uganda with grants to microfinance their business operations.
Pallet Project:
The nearby port city of Norfolk generates many shipping pallets, many of which are used a few times and then discarded. The Pallet Project took the pallets and recycled them for other uses.
EmpowerNET was an online class that taught the process of starting a business. Rather than provide temporary material aid, it strives to help entrepreneurs build lasting solutions in countries like Tanzania, Uganda, and Ghana.
In 2019-2020, EmpowerNET continued the business education course for people in poverty across Tanzania, Uganda, and Ghana, with 1600+ course graduates and counting. In addition, the course is potentially being offered in Brazil, Haiti, Armenia, South Sudan, and Kenya, expanding their global reach. They developed and tested a sustainable revenue model wherein they taught the content of the business course to homeschool students in the US. The funds raised from the homeschooling program went toward expanding the program in other countries and advertising the course.
At the end of 2020, an external organization bought EmpowerNET.
Bee's Knees (2019 - 2020):
Bee's Knees fought the bee epidemic by partnering local farmers with people in more urban areas who wanted to start beehives but didn't have the land for it. Secondary projects were frog watching and on-campus battery recycling.
Cheetah Project (2017 - 2019):
The Cheetah Project was an entrepreneurial training project. The team was lead by a project manager and created training programs for the most important aspects of entrepreneurship. There were over 7 units, each a week long. This project was designed to give educations to aspiring entrepreneurs in African countries such as; Uganda and Malawi. It went live in June 2017. For 2019-2020 it was reinvented as EmpowerNET.
Tax Project:
This project was led by a project manager. The goal of this project was to assist the military on the Langley-Eustis base with their taxes. The team partnered with military bases in the area to provide free tax services to active duty military and veterans. It took many hours of training materials and security clearances to accomplish this.
Hospitality Project:
The project was lead by three assistant project managers and one project manager. There were three branches in this project: the Ordinary, the Gift Shop, and Swan Terrace. With our help:
- The Gift Shop doubled their sales
- The Ordinary distributed customer surveys that has prompted consideration for a delivery service to students to generate more revenue
- The Swan Terrace evaluated student-produced market research and price/competition comparisons for the restaurant
Promise Partners:
Promise Partners was an education project geared toward teaching entrepreneurship and free market economics to middle school and high school students. Initally accepted into a local middle school, Promise Partners shifted focus to the homeschool community. The project educated high school students about business through classroom instruction and hands-on projects. At the end of the project, students created a business or an event that they had to organize, operate, and use to earn a profit.
Boda-Boda Project, aka Hail a Cab in Uganda:
Boda-bodas are motor bikes and are the main form of public transportation in Uganda. These boda-bodas function similarly to taxis. Purchasing a boda-boda, to begin one’s own “taxi-service” is a powerful opportunity, but many qualified individuals lack the funds to get started; therefore, providing loans for these entrepreneurial individuals is crucial. Through the Boda-Boda Project Enactus members, working in partnership with the Community at Heart Ministry, connected boda drivers in Uganda with grants to microfinance their business operations.
Pallet Project:
The nearby port city of Norfolk generates many shipping pallets, many of which are used a few times and then discarded. The Pallet Project took the pallets and recycled them for other uses.