Mentors

“A Leg-Up for 501c Startups™” is one of our charities that is a key program and a sibling charity. Its an empowerment program for small tech charities with small staff who are heavy users of temps or other contingent staff with a dual function of Mentoring our Internship Programs.

Relaunching A Leg-Up for 501c Startups™ is why the API’s relaunch is happening sooner than expected. Exempt tech firms that outsource abroad for Talent NOT in the US are not eligible for the API Program. The point is to help struggling Charities with staff in the US and support them with Students in the US wanting to learn from and work with them.

The websites for both A Leg-Up for 501c Startup™ & API™ current URLs are in the process of moving s please excuse downtime or site unavailability, it will be as brief as is possible. New URLs will be published soon as post migration testing has completed.

Other program disciplines will be announce as affirmed.

A Bit of History

Now known as SaaS, the 501c Business Incubator Councils™ first charity, ED-Lab Online (2002-2007) was a charitable & business anomaly at the time thought to be stupid, making no sense because it was so FAR AHEAD of its time.

Established for the Founders Peer Online Students & Instructors (OSI) who literally had nowhere to go to access technology, ED-Lab™ originally ran as student favor-turned-telnet pilot project (TPP) from 1998-2001. On its 501c approval by the IRS, its became part of ED-Lab™ training & software product development venue, “The Learners Lab” so it could keep access to ED-Lab™ free for its OSI User Community that struggled to maintain due to resistance against female techs & female innovation in the IT field even though funding thru private tech training clients called (a home learners lab).

ED-Lab™ has been resurrected and is purpose expanded. In addition to ongoing knowledge enrichment, ED-Lab™ is being retooled as a

  • Multi-Lingual-Multi-Functional NOC
  • Research, Product Development & Tech ReEngineering Lab
  • Historical Resource & Preservation Library/Archive

ED-Lab™ expanded mission results in it becoming “The-Go-To” Intern/Fellowships Knowledge Enrichment Lab and Archive that designs and delivers start-to-success career life-cycle experiences that only exist within EEF-501cBizInc’s unique business operations universe which — outside of Religion and Emergency Services — leaves few fields untouched!

ED-Lab Online™ was approved by the IRS as an Application Service Provider (ASP) providing software over the internet. Its user Community was online students & instructors and we selected HBCUs, MSI, VocEd or Community College because our research of the day found these institutions were least likely to have the capacity to provide online computing access.

As it turned out we were more than correct, Online Students and their Online Instructor at the time had no direct access to any kind or level software or technology available to assist them. That there is still such divides in access, support or recognition that levels the field for success such that there is such a thing as better financed institutions is inexcusable and unacceptable.

ED-Labs™ status as a public charitable program has been restored with the blessing of the IRS. It will resume its original and intended roles as the Tech Hub Lab Environment but serve a much wider community of Students from both our Interns/Fellowship programs that include our API Student Interns & our Leg-Up for 501c Startups Awardees who will train and mentor them.

We are very excited to bring it back and anticipate ED-Lab Online™ to go live shortly after our relocation has completed. It will relaunch with a Website Construction & Logo Refresh Project and Awarded to one of our Partnership/LegUp parings to kick things off!

Stay Tuned!