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The
Chicago 1st Black Inventors/Entrepreneurs Organization (CFBIEO)
is the first of its kind to target and assist Black Inventors
in an effort to help them play a part in revitalizing their
communities. Historically, Blacks have been major contributors
towards the technology field, inventing new and useful products
that have helped build this country and influenced the way
things are done worldwide, without participating in much
of the wealth that these ideas have generated. This is one
of the main reasons the CFBIEO was created. We are a not-for-profit
501(c)(3) whose purpose is "to create a community-based
economic engine that educates and assists inventors and
entrepreneurs in developing their entrepreneurial endeavors."
We need your help to create that economic engine.
Please
review the Donor Tier listing below and make a donation
to this vital organization. Your tax-deductible contribution
will help support our cutting-edge programs and services
that help our members to prepare and face the invention
process. The program is supplemented by newsletters, workshops
and conferences as well as networking sessions to link our
members with professionals from the idea stage to the marketplace.
CFBIEO is partnering with the Chicago City Colleges, Chicago
Public Schools, community groups, various patent attorneys,
engineers, mold makers, architects, manufacturers, advertisers,
and purchasing agents at major stores in an effort to fulfill
our mission.
Our
goal is to support low-to moderate-income inventors that
generate new businesses which will bring opportunities for
employment, home ownership and community stability. Often,
new ventures self-destruct due to a lack of funding and
support. Therefore it is wonderful to provide an avenue
for entrepreneurial & inventor education and programming
within the greater Chicagoland area.
If
you would like to know more about the CFBIEO, please browse
this web site or call Calvin Flowers, Founder and inventor
of a product called Security Jack. Security Jack is a 3-in-1
telephone line locking device that operates with a key.
The device serves as a tool to supervise children on the
Internet and prevent telephone abuse. He successfully sold
the Security Jack Nationwide in stores like Walgreens.
Black
Enterprise Magazine has done a story on the CFBIEO appearing
in the February 2007 issue. Because of his experience, Mr.
Flowers wanted to help others and give back to the inventory
community, so in 2003, he met with nine inventors from the
Chicagoland area and they became the founding members of
the CFBIEO.
You
can help too by sending in a check today to assist in changing
the economic map of underserved communities…one inventor
at a time.
Sincerely,
Ora
B. Nance-Woodley
Fund Raising/Event Planning Coordinator
The Donor Tier
BLACK
INVENTORS FACTOID
