impact on STUDENTS
Building Community Students focus entrepreneurial spirit on the community.
By Gregg Mazzola
Associate Professor Keith Moon’s vision of building a center for entrepreneurship was 30 years in the making. Moon spent the better part of three decades teaching entrepreneurship and leadership courses and knew a good idea when he saw one. Working closely with his School of Business colleagues and SNHU President Paul LeBlanc, Moon launched the university’s Center for Entrepreneurial and Social Innovation in June 2007. His mission to create a center that would develop business plans, consult with for-profit businesses and create entrepreneurial courses and programs came to life.
“ Our students are encouraged to utilize their business training to make a positive difference in their communities,” said Keith Moon.
The opportunity for students and the business community to connect at a grassroots level reflects the university’s rich entrepreneurial spirit. “Our students are able to gain invaluable hands-on experience through CESI by serving as consultants to entrepreneurs in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors,” Moon said.
Moon develops programs and is the university’s representative for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a strategic partnership that provides the center with video presentations and seminars on entrepreneurship. As part of the CESI experience, Moon started an SNHU chapter of Students in Free Enterprise, for which he is the Sam Walton Fellow.
Lin Li, 3Year Honors Program student
Impact
Fall 2009