Missouri Western was awarded the Heartland Challenge Grant offered through the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. The grant, totaling $73,500 will support the launch of the Regional Economic Vitality Consortium to expand their entrepreneurship education programming across a 23-county region in Northeast Kansas and Northwest Missouri. This work will contribute to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s [...]
The weekly Cup of Joe will be back in person starting September 9th. Location will be posted on the Cup of Joe Facebook Page. People will also be able to watch via Facebook Live, allowing entrepreneurs across the region to participate and connect with other business owners. Each week, different entrepreneurs present about their business [...]
From left to right: Dr. Logan Jones, Dean of the College of Business and Professional Studies; Joe Freudenthal, Entrepreneur of the Year; Austin Evans, Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year; Annette Weeks, Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship. The Center for Entrepreneurship at Missouri Western State University honored two business owners during the [...]
“I appreciated the opportunity to hear directly from local St. Joe-area business owners during a virtual Cup of Joe earlier this month. In our state, more than 99% of all businesses are small businesses. There is no doubt that our ability to bounce back from this economic crisis will depend on the ability of small [...]
Entrepreneurs of Western Missouri Facebook group connect entrepreneurs and business owners located or connected to Western Missouri who want to help each other prosper and share their successes to lift each other up as business owners. According to Business News Daily, “Facebook Groups allow people to come together around a common cause, issue or activity [...]
Center for Entrepreneurship, St. Joseph Chamber of Commerce Co-host Webinars for Small Businesses are now on demand. Tips for helping small businesses survive hard times is the focus of a series of free webinars co-hosted by The Center for Entrepreneurship at Missouri Western State University and the St. Joseph Chamber of Commerce. “Being an entrepreneur [...]
As an open access institution with a statewide applied learning mission, Missouri Western serves as an invaluable resource for students, families and local communities. We are critical to attracting and retaining talent in our area, and we are vital to the success of local industry and our society. So it is important that we not [...]
The weekly Cup of Joe gatherings are now available to watch live via Facebook, allowing entrepreneurs across the region to participate and connect with other business owners. Each week, different entrepreneurs present about their business and how they are adapting to this pandemic. Cup of Joe was started as a way to support the local [...]
Miu Sutton ’17 said she had always wanted to be an entrepreneur, and working as a graduate assistant in the Center for Entrepreneurship (CFE) in the Craig School of Business inspired her to take the plunge. Miu now owns and operates Card My Yard St. Joseph, a 24-hour yard greeting business. She earned a marketing [...]
The Center for Entrepreneurship invited Mr. Todd Joe, Chairman of the St. Joseph Chamber of Commerce’s Diplomats Club to be a “Professor for a Day” in Dr. Nitin Singh’s Entrepreneurship class at Missouri Western. Joe discussed the entrepreneurial ecosystem in St. Joseph, and the role the Chamber of Commerce serves in supporting local entrepreneurs. As [...]
