PUR 502: The 24 hour purpose-driven start-up course
Launch your purpose-driven business or nonprofit through this self guided course
Watch Promo
PUR:502 The 24 hour purpose-driven start-up course. Find your purpose and launch a purpose-driven start-up through this course. This online interactive course can be taken from your smart phone, tablet, or computer. This self-paced course walks the user through our proprietary 5-step process to launch a purpose-driven business or nonprofit. Students will leave the course with: a powerful mission statement, website, employer identification number, bank account, online payment system, and lean business canvas. The course comes with the following e-course books: The Purpose Lifestyle, Finding Your Purpose in 15 Minutes, and Starting Your Business From the Unemployment Line
Additional optional books are:
Fundraising for Nonprofits, P5 The Five Secrets to Successful Grant and Bid Proposals, and Inclusion: the Art of Story Listening.
PUR: 502.1 Business Start-Up and PUR:502.2 Nonprofit Start-Up
Syllabi
Purpose University Accelerated Boot Camp
Step 1 Finding Your Purpose
Step 2 Your Vision and Website
Step 3: Get Legal
Step 4: Banking
Step 5: Business Model
Your Instructor
As CEO of Drakeford, Scott, and Associates LLC, We specialize in non-profit consulting,business development, and motivational speaking. We offer proposal development, relationship development, strategic planning, organizational structure development, development plans and partnership development.
Derrick has served as an Instructor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel-Hill. Derrick is a former faculty member of North Carolina Central University in the Masters in Public Administration program. He also served as the Director of Freshmen Studies and Community Service at The Shaw University in Raleigh, NC. Derrick has consulted with nonprofits, business, and churches for 20 years. He holds a Bachelors in political science from Bethune-Cookman University, a Masters in Public Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Government. He holds a certificate in Nonprofit Management from the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Social Work; and certificates in Proposal Writing and Fundraising for Nonprofits from the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana -Purdue University. Derrick received his Ph.D, from UNC-Chapel Hill.
He has written seven books:
1)Finding Your Purpose in 15 Minutes,
2) Fundraising for Nonprofits What the Bible Says,
3) Starting Your Business from the Unemployment Line,
4) Jada Goes to Pre-School: A Book on Transitions,
5) P5: The Five Secrets to Successful Grant and Bid Proposals,
6) The 2 Laws of Standardized Testing,
7) Inclusion:The Art of Story Listening, and
8) The Purpose Lifestyle