{"id":207175,"date":"2018-07-25T19:43:30","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T23:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/?p=207175"},"modified":"2018-07-25T19:46:49","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T23:46:49","slug":"change-create-transform-honors-montclair-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/2018\/07\/25\/change-create-transform-honors-montclair-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Change Create Transform honors Montclair State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Change Create Transform Foundation honored Montclair State and its Feliciano Center for Entrepreneurship during an annual summit in July 2018.\u00a0The award for &#8220;highest honors for excellence in education&#8221; recognized the university&#8217;s partnership with <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.changecreate.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Change Create Transform<\/a>. Montclair State is one of several universities in the U.S. that has been selected to award the <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.changecreate.org\/promise-prize\/\" target=\"_blank\">Promise Prize<\/a>\u00a0award each year.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/entrepreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2018\/07\/20180720_205629.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/entrepreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2018\/07\/20180720_205629.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Glass award\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The award.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Vikki Pryor, the founder of Change Create Transform, presented the award to Dennis Bone,\u00a0founding director of the Feliciano Center.\u00a0Bone was the keynote speaker at the annual summit, and spoke about his journey from humble roots in West Virginia to highly respected business leader in New Jersey.<!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_207185\" class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/entrepreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2018\/07\/20180720_203348.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/entrepreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2018\/07\/20180720_203348.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Bone speaks to the crowd.\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bone speaks to the crowd.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Montclair State attendees at the summit included the university&#8217;s Promise Prize winners: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/2018\/05\/03\/student-learns-importance-of-networking-through-5000-promise-prize-award\/\" target=\"_blank\">Olivia Hettman (2018)<\/a>, Kishawn Jean-Pierre (2017), Dana LaCondre-Nugent (2015) and Alanda Alexandre (2014). Stanley Fils is the 2016 winner. Also present at the summit were faculty advisor Agatha Jeffers and Feliciano Center program manager Sharon Waters.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/entrepreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2018\/07\/20180720_195951.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/entrepreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2018\/07\/20180720_195951.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Entrepreneurship students with Dennis Bone and Sharon Waters\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left: Bone, LaCondre-Nugent, Hettman, Jean-Pierre, Alexandre, Jeffers and Waters.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The foundation, and Promise Prize\u00a0award, was created by Vikki Pryor to honor her grandmother Marie Nesbitt, who was a great-granddaughter of slaves and held jobs ranging from domestic worker to welder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Change Create Transform Foundation honored Montclair State and its Feliciano Center for Entrepreneurship during an annual summit in July 2018.\u00a0The award for &#8220;highest honors for excellence in education&#8221; recognized the university&#8217;s partnership with Change Create Transform. Montclair State is one of several universities in the U.S. that has been selected to award the Promise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":207183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207175"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207189,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207175\/revisions\/207189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}