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About NFTE |
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Michael J. Caslin,
III, grew up in Queens, New York, where he graduated from
Holy Cross High School while working as a batboy for the Visiting
Team Clubhouse at Shea Stadium. Mike received a B.A. with a
double major in Economics and Political Science from Manhattanville
College in 1980. In 1978 he was awarded a Congressional Internship
for Representative Jack Kemp.
Since 1988, Mike Caslin has been involved with the National
Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE). Mike himself
is an entrepreneur, and had established ventures in the aquafarm,
video production, crisis and corporate turnaround management
services, and real estate sectors, before taking a leave of
absence to help NFTE.
Under Mike's leadership, NFTE has "gone to scale" from start-up
sites in the South Bronx and Newark to having NFTE-trained teachers
in 45 states and in 16 countries throughout the world.
As a national spokesperson for NFTE, Mike has been featured
by The Boston Globe, Chronicle of Philanthropy, The New York
Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, ABC Evening News, CNN with
Lou Dobbs, National Public Radio, DPTV-Dalian (China), MBC-Seoul
(South Korea) among a great number of other media outlets.
In addition, Mike has made more than 50 presentations at forums
in both the United States and abroad, in such venues as the
Price Babson International Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators;
Brandeis University, Harvard University, the Inc. 500 Annual
Conference; W.K. Kellogg Foundation's National African American
Male Collaboration; White House Conference on Small Business;
Stanford University; and the 12th Annual Windsor Meeting, Blairquhan
Castle, Ayreshire, Scotland. Fellowships and Prizes:
- 1999 Norfolk Trust World Fellowship
- 1998 Price-Babson College Fellows
- 1997 University of Arizona Economics Science Laboratory
Fellowship
- 1994 Price-Babson College Fellowship
- 1978 The Fund for American Studies at Georgetown University
It is Mike's passionate conviction that every child born
into poverty should be given the opportunity to transcend
it and that the best chance for achieving this will come through
entrepreneurship learning experiences and individual effort.
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