Building Your Own Business
The Center for Entrepreneurship is Open for
All Businesses
Brooklyn Partnership as well as many of the 22,0 0 0 small businesses
located in the borough.
“The importance of entrepreneurship is particularly apparent in a
market like New York, where immigrant and minority entrepreneurship
drive job creation and community economic vitality at a rate higher than
most other cities,” said Management Professor Patrice Perry-Rivers,
the Assistant Director of the Center.
“Our center is poised to help fuel the economic vitality created by our
region’s melting pot of entrepreneurs by training and educating future
t should be no surprise that a reinvigorated Brooklyn has now
entrepreneurship leaders,” she said.
become a hotbed for entrepreneurs. Recognizing the importance
Academics are the core of the Center with a minor in entrepreneurship
of this moment in time, St. Francis College is proud to announce
well on its way to completion. The first class on Entrepreneurship and
the formation of the Center for Entrepreneurship.
Innovation was offered in the fall and filled up immediately. The second
“We want to be the clearing house for small- and medium-sized
course will be offered in the spring with the rest of the courses for the
businesses in Brooklyn,” said Dennis Anderson, Chair of the
minor quickly ramping up.
Department of Business Management and Information Technology
“There was huge demand for the first class,” said Gelormino, who
and Executive Chair of the new Center. “Anyone looking to start a
has more than 25 years of experience in business and has worked with
business or who already has one will be able to come to us to get the
a number of entrepreneurs and business incubators. “Our students
tools they need to be successful. They’ll learn things like which banks
know that a program like this is not limited to business majors. We want
provide funding and who to contact, where to get legal advice, and
to teach the skills of creativity and inspire people to follow purpose and
how to take advantage of pro-bono services.”
passion. It can be taught to anyone.”
In turn, students at St. Francis College will have the opportunity
Future courses will deal with a variety of aspects in becoming an
to gain real-world experience
entrepreneur: legal issues,
through internships, as well as
finance, human resources,
part-time and full-time jobs with
marketing, and social media.
the companies and entrepreneurs
Students will also have access
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