The Massey Center is pleased to offer FastTrac® Entrepreneurship training courses.

FastTrac® is a comprehensive entrepreneurship-educational program that provides entrepreneurs with business insights, leadership skills and professional networking connections so they are prepared to create a new business or expand an existing enterprise. The FastTrac program includes practical, hands-on business development programs and workshops for entrepreneurs.

FastTrac® is designed to help entrepreneurs hone the skills needed to create, manage and/or grow successful businesses. Participants don't just learn about business, they live it! They work on their own business ideas or ventures throughout the program - moving their venture to reality or new levels of growth.

FastTrac® programs are resources for entrepreneurs that have been developed by and with hundreds of successful entrepreneurs who have shared their knowledge, insights, and stories so that others might learn from them. In 1998 FastTrac® won the Small Business Administration's Model of Excellence Award for Entrepreneurial Education. Simply put, FastTrac is one of America's leading entrepreneurial training programs and remains on the cutting edge by providing programs that are written by entrepreneurs...taught by entrepreneurs...for entrepreneurs.

FastTrac® programs are currently provided by over 300 organizations in all 50 states. FastTrac® programs are also being offered outside the U.S. in Australia and Russia. More than 200,000 aspiring and existing entrepreneurs have been reached through FastTrac® programs in the United States since 1993. Information about Fasttrac is available at www.fasttrac.org.

How was FastTrac® started? FastTrac® programs were first launched through the University of Southern California's Entrepreneurship Program in Los Angeles in 1986. In an effort to launch the FastTrac® program nationally and continue accelerating entrepreneurship in America, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation became the major funder and supporter of FastTrac® in 1993.

Today the various FastTrac® programs are offered in both urban and rural settings through organizations and colleges/universities that, like FastTrac, are "helping people pursue their entrepreneurial dreams." FastTrac® is a success because of the strong partnerships with local organizations that have a passion for serving the entrepreneurs in their community.

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation of Kansas City works with partners to advance entrepreneurship in America and improve the education of children and youth. The Kauffman Foundation was established in the mid-1960s by the late entrepreneur and philanthropist Ewing Marion Kauffman. Information about the Kauffman Foundation is available at www.kauffman.org.