[Oe List ...] Businesses started by and operated by ICA staff for ChronHist

Sat Sep 9 18:52:16 PDT 2017

Access Unlimited included the printshop after the first couple years and we did a lot of printing.

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Please look over this list and add or suggest changes. The formatting happens when David enters the data into the master document.

Thank you, Beret

Businesses started by and operated by ICA staff. Businesses provided staff support.

(Looking here for ICA run businesses, not permeation jobs) 

CHANGES 9/6/2017

• Brussels: Ken Whitney, the American Handiman from 1977–1979, with help from Clare Whitney and occasionally Paul Schrijnen, earned enough to pay off old bills, pay stipends, and send all staff members to Chicago for summer programs (Clare Whitney, July 17, 2015). 

•Fifth City Business School, held Fifth City adult night classes. Started in 1976 or 1977

•Fifth City Business Careers (1980), a spin-off of the downtown Chicago Training, Inc. which began in 1979.

•  Chicago: Horizons Unlimited handled travel from 1983–1986. 

•  Chicago: Access Unlimited provided word processing services.

• Chicago (1982–1984)—LENS International consultants included Sherwood Shankland, Lee Early, Cynthia Vance, Rick Loudermilk, Jack Gilles, Pat Tuecke and others.

• Houston: Income earned from LENS courses and consultancies: Don Clark, Dick Whanger, Linda (Sunny Walker) Jones and others.

•  Jakarta, Indonesia and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (1975-1982)

•  Kingston, Jamaica (1986-88) Operated as a LENS program consulting team: Sherwood Shankland, Eunice Shankland, David Rebstock, Ellen Rebstock, Winston Davis 

• Lamego, Portugal (1982–1984)—teaching English to people working in port wine companies.

• Los Angeles: (July 1985) Milan and Linda Hamilton founded Food For All to raise funds for anti-hunger projects. 

•  Majuro (1973) Larry White had an accounting firm where Sunny Walker worked. The Trans Atoll Service Corporation (TASC) was this an ICA Business ICA? Small businesses were run as a part of the Human Development Project: chip factory, farm, shark fishing, Alele Baskets.

• New York: Scott and Doris Morris and others did programming, consulting, and training as Computer Paradigm.

• Sydney?????????????

• Toronto: PEOPLEnergy— first launched in 1985 by Jan Sanders and Ian Graham. At various times Robert Rafos, Bill Staples, Jo Nelson, Richard Kitney, Deanna Hickey, and others were hired as consultants. In 2017 it continues as a self-support business, at times working in collaboration with other organizations. PEOPLEnergy joined with Ian Gilmore’s Technology Transfer on several contracts.

• Washington, DC: Stan Crow, and Linda and Lester Knudsen sold Kaypro computers and did programming, consulting, and training as Computer Paradigm.

• Note: Throughout the years, LENS consulting and training activities (initially Living Effectively in the New Society and later Leadership Effectiveness and New Strategies) provided ICA staff self-support in locations not mentioned.

Training, Inc. Timeline

1975      Training, Inc. DuPage/Oak Brook

1979      Training, Inc. Chicago  #1

1980      Fifth City Business Careers

1981     Training, Inc. Indianapolis

1981      Training, Inc. Word Processing Chicago

1984     Training, Inc. Boston

1985     STEP  Sellersburg, Indiana  (supported by Indianapolis)

1986     Training, Inc. Newark

1986      Training, Inc. National Association formed

1988      Training, Inc. Pittsburgh

1988      Training, Inc. Washington, DC

1989     Training, Inc. Guatemala (goes into the Addendum)

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