Training The Street (TTS), the leading corporate training provider for Wall Street firms and top business schools, today announced its partnership with Venture for America (VFA), a non-profit organization that encourages entrepreneurship amongst college graduates to aid struggling cities across the U.S. This year’s full incoming class of 122 VFA fellows will participate in a live TTS financial training seminar, which will include financial modeling, technical skills, and proficiency in Excel. In addition, TTS will offer continuing development training to all of the 200-plus past VFA fellows and provide access to online self-study courses, all on a pro bono basis. The live course will be held at Brown University on July 6.
The partnership between TTS and VFA fuses the expertise of both organizations. TTS will provide the same industry-leading financial training program used by top Wall Street banks and MBA programs to help VFA fellows launch their careers and businesses. This will assist VFA in fulfilling its mission of creating opportunities for college graduates and aspiring entrepreneurs to work at startups across the country while they help struggling local economies.
The full day course for the VFA fellows will mirror TTS’s Applied Excel course, which teaches students how to utilize the program’s sophisticated functions and analyze data, amongst other skills. TTS will also provide digital self-study materials to current and past VFA fellows, including financial statement analysis & accounting, and corporate and merger valuation.
“I strongly believe in Venture for America’s mission of training the future generation of business leaders. As an educator and as an entrepreneur I am extremely enthusiastic about Training The Street’s partnership with this outstanding organization,” said Scott Rostan, Founder and CEO of Training The Street. “The combination of business education from VFA and financial training from TTS will help these promising graduates become successful business owners and tremendous assets to our society.”
“Venture for America’s partnership with Training The Street is a natural fit. Their expertise fills a niche within our training program and provides our fellows with even more essential tools to set out and advance their own careers while furthering job creation in this country,” said Andrew Yang, Founder and CEO of VFA.
About Training The Street
Training The Street (TTS) is the world’s leading provider of instructor-led courses in accounting, asset management, capital markets, financial modeling and corporate valuation training to Wall Street investment banks, federal government agencies, law firms, business schools, and top colleges. With offices in the financial hubs across the U.S., as well as an office in London and India, TTS boasts a deep field of expert instructors and extensive practical experience. Currently, TTS is offering live training programs to interns, analysts and associates at nearly 200 banks and corporate businesses, including Wall Street’s 10 largest banks, as well as the 20 highest ranked MBA programs in the nation. For more information, please visit www.trainingthestreet.com.
About Venture for America
Venture for America is a fellowship program for enterprising recent college graduates to launch their careers as entrepreneurs and revitalize American cities. After five weeks of training, VFA Fellows spend two years in the trenches of a startup in an emerging U.S. city where they learn how to contribute to a high-growth business. Afterwards, VFA provides the mentorship, network, and resources Fellows need to become entrepreneurs.
Venture for America’s goal is to fuel job growth in cities throughout the U.S. while empowering our best and brightest to create value in their communities. They aim to produce effective and high-character builders who will found and lead quality organizations throughout their careers. For more information visit www.ventureforamerica.org and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
