ACEC’s Minuteman Fund for Pro-Business Advocacy

For over three decades David Andalcio has guided major IT deployments in Chicago’s public schools. An accomplished entrepreneur, David Andalcio has served as the CEO of Wynndalco Enterprises, LLC, which supports foundations such as the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC). 

ACEC represents over 600,000 engineers, architects, and land surveyors across the United States. The organization’s mission is to promote business through government advocacy and business education. One of the vehicles the organization uses to fulfill its mission is the Minuteman Fund. 

The Minuteman Fund is available to member organizations to support critical advocacy programs in their states and regions. Qualifying member organizations in need of funding simply apply to ACEC demonstrating the importance of the issue, its potential implications, and their own financial commitment to dealing with it. Successful applications receive matching funds up to the amount member organizations themselves are putting up. 

Since it was established, the Minuteman Fund has played a role in several states, such as Ohio, where it helped maintain motor-fuel tax revenues; Maine, Texas, and Colorado, where it supported infrastructure spending; and California, where it helped safeguarded the constitutional right of the state government to contract with entities in the private sector.

Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative Course on Scaling Up

A resident of Chicago, David Andalcio is the chief executive of Wynndalco Enterprises, LLC. David Andalcio was accepted into the fifth cohort of the Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative (SLEI) Education - Scaling Program.

The program at Stanford University offers a six-week online course for business leaders intent on building scalable companies. The course is based on a curriculum developed by Stanford professors and business scaling experts Huggy Rao and Bob Sutton. The curriculum was tailored to address the specific growth challenges faced by the million-plus Latino-owned businesses in the United States. 

The course provides participants an opportunity to advance their knowledge and skills to better position them to grow their businesses. Participants also learn from first-hand interaction with leaders who successfully grew their own businesses.

The program is run by SLEI with support from the Latino Business Action Network. It is offered as part of SLEI’s mission to empower Latino and Latina entrepreneurs, helping them grow their businesses, create jobs, nurture leaders, and strengthen the overall economy.