From the Desk of Michael Carter

Dear Pushers, 

The vision for Push for Entrepreneurship is a combined passion to: 

1. Energize all participants to exceed their self-imposed limitations (and do the “impossible”);
2. Level the playing field for low income neighborhoods to access the best in innovation education; and
3. Cultivate and celebrate innovation.

Like many of you, I am 100% certain that our current tumultuous times it is innovation, changing mindsets and creative thinking that will prove most important to  solving problems and becoming a better society.

PFE is attracting energetic people who are committed to improve the communities they live in and encourage entrepreneurial solutions to today’s problems.

PFE is an extraordinary event where pushers will find self-discovery and personal fulfillment in training hard, pushing limits and thinking big. It’s impossible to have participated and not feel you did something special that very few people would even attempt.

All proceeds of PFE are donated to the Connecticut Invention Convention (CIC), a 41-year-old educational nonprofit that is the nation’s largest continuously operating program for K-12 student inventors and entrepreneurs. CIC’s mission is to teach students creative problem-solving techniques through inventing, innovating and entrepreneurship. 

Your donation through the PFE Campaign, will be used to give K-12 students an opportunity to participate in CIC’s programs in Bridgeport, Norwalk, Hartford and New Haven schools. CIC builds an entrepreneurial and innovative mindset by teaching students ‘how to fish’ which will help ‘feed them for a lifetime.’

I founded PFE fourteen years ago as personal challenge that was totally out of the box. The first year we had four participants doing two hours of push-ups.  Since its inception, over 400 pushers have participated and raised over $420,000 towards innovation education in Norwalk, Bridgeport, New Haven and Hartford. Today PFE is the largest fundraiser for Connecticut Invention Convention, where today 90% of its student inventors are from below-median-income communities. 

Here are the ways you can help:

· Push – start training

· Recruit – we need pushers!

· Donate money 

· Volunteer to Judge at a CIC school event 

-Michael Carter