4 September 2008
TroopTreats Gets Sweet Reward
Posted by admin under: Community Partners; community service; recognition .
Scoutingnews.com relates the information that the NASE (National Association for the Self-Employed) has a scholarship program and has awarded it to Patrick Kaltenbach of Newtonville, Massachusettes for his idea to send Boy Scout microwave popcorn to our troops overseas. Patrick’s idea has been wildly successful and the NASE decided to reward him with a scholarship that could end up being $24,000.
The NASE Future Entrepreneur Scholarship is the largest scholarship of its kind in the U.S. and the only one that promotes the entrepreneurial philosophy. This unique opportunity is awarded each summer to a single ambitious and driven individual who demonstrates the characteristics of a future micro-business owner. The scholarship awards $12,000 the first year, and recipients may renew the scholarship for $4,000 for each of three years of continuing education.
Patrick founded Project TroopTreats in 2005 after experiencing firsthand the help of the U.S. military in evacuating and treating thousands of Scouts during the 2005 Boy Scouts of America National Jamboree. Knowing that almost 60 percent of U.S. soldiers were once Scouts, Patrick realized the best way to say ‘thanks’ while reminding soldiers of their time as Scouts was to send bags of Boy Scout microwave popcorn overseas. In 2005, Patrick and his troop raised over $4,000 in popcorn with donations of $1 per bag. In 2006, Project TroopTreats raised $16,000, and they are expected to raise even more after the National Boy Scouts of America office opened a variation of TroopTreats nationwide in 2007.
Hey! My son was at that Jamboree. Maybe he knows Patrick. I’ll have to check. There were only tens of thousands of people there. One of my issues with public education is that it doesn’t stress entrepreneurship enough. I’m glad to see the NASE is helping to reward those who remember that jobs don’t just create themselves.
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