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)