The Entrepreneurs Foundation of the Southeast assists enterprising young companies to develop a culture of community involvement. Our programs address the money and time resource constraints early-stage companies face. EFSE facilitates community involvement with volunteerism and outreach. We make it easy for a company to begin by matching corporate culture and philanthropic interests while providing links to the many opportunities in their community. EFSE provides the community relations function for the company at no charge to help establish its giving strategy and its volunteer programs.

The stock option has proven to be a highly effective motivational tool for employees of entrepreneurial companies, inspiring these employees to work hard to achieve company goals. EFSE has created an innovative program that benefits local companies and community groups by using this same stock model. As participants in EFSE, each company makes an equity donation to a company-directed fund at the foundation. When a company is acquired or has an initial public offering on the stock market, funds from the exercise and sale of the stock options become available for charitable giving advised by the company.

For information about community involvement and philanthropy programs, please click on the Community and Philanthropy links above.