About Enitiative

The Enitiative Project stems from a grant awarded to Syracuse University in 2006 by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation of Kansas City, Missouri. This 5-year, $3-million grant is part of the Kauffman Campus^SM Initiative to transform the way colleges and universities teach entrepreneurship education. Entrepreneurship is a potent force for change. It empowers individuals, businesses, and organizations to generate ideas, explore possibilities, and build working models of creative productivity.

As part of the Enitiative project, SU and its coalition of partners targeted three areas of development within the region where the principles and practice of entrepreneurship can be applied—technology, arts, and neighborhoods. Each of these targeted areas includes the participation of faculty and students from different academic fields on each of the participating campuses, as well as community members from a wide variety of professions. Enitiative projects must engage both campus and community.

Enitiative's efforts have been focused on several areas of development in the Central New York region. [read more...]

The broad objectives of Enitiative include:
• Infuse entrepreneurship across the curriculum
• Create meaningful and productive campus-community connections
• Encourage entrepreneurship research across disciplines
• Stimulate our region with the power and energy of entrepreneurship

Be an Entrepreneur! The traditional definition of an entrepreneur is a person who starts a business. Entrepreneurship can be a venture that generates new sources of revenue, but it can also be an innovative way to enhance services or help promote citizen education and involvement.

Enitiative Leadership

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

The E. M. Kauffman Foundation is dedicated to encouraging entrepreneurship as a means of supporting the global knowledge economy. This is achieved by sustaining educators, researchers, and organizations that can promote and implement an entrepreneurial vision.