I think we ll be out of space here pretty quickly, he said. We ll have locations in D.C., Prince George s County and Montgomery County. The board has not yet decided how or whether it will score companies levels of public service performance, but Litman compares the concept to that of judges requiring some convicts to perform community service as penance for their crimes. There ought to be advantages to good behavior, he says. My sense is most companies want to be good corporate citizens, Litman said.
Most companies do it already or want to, and are just looking for a platform to do it.
The University of Maryland s Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship is a founder of TECC and will provide its mentoring and other services to member companies. Still, the future of the center is by no means assured. Litman declined to say how much money TECC has in the bank, but said it has commitments reaching well into the six figures, enough to keep it operating only about six months. If you don t take a step, nothing will happen, Litman said. A lot of it will depend on how much people in the community want to do this.