Drew Little is a Web Social Entrepreneur looking to bring the web startup culture of Silicon Valley to youth in urban areas throughout the country while making the world a better place. He created the socially-conscious web startup, The Illuminated Ventures Project (IllVP) with the help of several current college students at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.

His mission is to inspire, inform, and invest in under-served and under-represented groups in the areas of New Media and Internet Technology to level economic self-suffiency in the United States.

He’s an Idea Engineer at heart, but also loves to express himself through various forms of art, blog, exercise, and help others find the potential within themselves.

Illuminated Ventures Project

The Illuminated Ventures Project (IllVP) is a grassroots student-driven web organization that creates innovative local websites that helps local businesses and aspiring talent reach their full marketing potential, and assists local residents in reaching their full purchasing potential via special deals in their area.

30 percent of the profits are used to help disadvantaged youth learn important social and financial life skills and become successful Web Social Entrepreneurs.

The Dream Journey

The Dream Journey is a web-based documentary series about Drew pursuing a year long challenge entitled, “The Dream Journey,” which aims to bring awareness to a new way of doing business, Web Social Entrepreneurship.

The challenge involved him:

• Giving Up His Home
• Having No Guaranteed Income
• Giving Away 90% of His Belongings to the Homeless

His next step is to gain the support of local businesses and residents in Richmond, Virginia to help him attain the resources to:

Bring awareness and solutions to the highest rate of youth unemployment in U.S. history

Showing disadvantaged youth an alternative way to get out the disastrous cycle of poverty

Viewers can follow Drew’s journey at tdj.illvp.com and @thedreamjourney on Twitter, where he will post video footage, pictures, and notes of his new lifestyle, experiences with local supporters and businesses, and running a socially-conscious web startup.

What Is Web Social Entrepreneurship?

The act of a person who recognizes a social problem and uses web entrepreneurial principles to organize, create, and manage a venture to make social change.

The web enterprise’s main mission is to positively contribute to a humanitarian and/or environmental cause while making a profit by providing value to local communities.

Check Drew Out:

Professional Blog - illvp.com/blog

Personal Blog - loomzworld.com

The Dream Journey - tdj.illvp.com

Twitter -twitter@illvp and twitter@thedreamjourney

LinkedIn - linkedin.com/user/drewlittle