Entrepreneurship at Oberlin

Oberlin College’s Creativity & Leadership Project is a multi-disciplinary effort designed to provide students with opportunities to put their innovative ideas into practice. The project reflects Oberlin’s musical and artistic excellence, its rigorous liberal arts curriculum, and its longstanding commitment to preparing students for leadership and civic engagement. 

Oberlin affirms an approach to entrepreneurship firmly grounded in the liberal arts, one designed to draw on and interweave students’ intellectual and artistic interests, innovative ideas and aspirations, experiential learning, and co-curricular activities. The project emphasizes creativity and leadership as attributes at the core of successful ventures in any field.

Open to students of any major or career aspiration, the Creativity & Leadership Project helps to prepare students for the challenges of implementing their own ideas through new semester and module courses, mentored experiential opportunities, workshops, and lectures by alumni and practitioners in northeast Ohio and beyond.

The Creativity & Leadership Project engages a diverse group of constituents to contribute to the practice and understanding of entrepreneurship, including alumni in a variety of fields, friends of the college, and staff and faculty across departments. Contact us at creativity@oberlin.edu to see how you can get involved.

 

 



Morgan & Kauffman Foundations

Creativity & Leadership: Entrepreneurship at Oberlin is part of the Northeast Ohio Collegiate Entrepreneurship Program (NEOCEP), a Kauffman CampusesSMInitiative funded by the Burton D. Morgan Foundation and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.


Burton D. Morgan Foundation

The mission of The Burton D. Morgan Foundation is to strengthen the free enterprise system by investing in organizations and institutions that foster the entrepreneurial spirit.  In 1967, Burton D. Morgan established the private foundation based in Akron, Ohio.  The primary purpose of the Foundation is to preserve and support the free enterprise system, which Mr. Morgan believed to be America’s greatest asset. 
www.bdmorganfdn.org


Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation of Kansas City is a private, nonpartisan foundation that works with partners to advance entrepreneurship in America and improve the education of children and youth. The Kauffman Foundation was established in the mid-1960s by the late entrepreneur and philanthropist Ewing Marion Kauffman.
www.kauffman.org