Oberlin College
IN-3: Innovation 3

Creativity & Leadership: Entrepreneurship at Oberlin Oberlin's Creativity & Leadership program works to support students' efforts to realize their entrepreneurial ideas. The program offers funding for piloting new ideas, summer internships, and post-graduate fellowships to develop and launch a venture. The project is multi-disciplinary and has funded initiatives proposed by students from both the College of Arts & Sciences and Conservatory of Music with a heavy focus on sustainability. Recent environmental entrepreneurship funded by the Creativity & Leadership program include • Kantara Crafts: "a fair trade business that partners with Moroccan artisan cooperatives to offer finely crafted, handwoven textiles from Morocco in a socially responsible, environmentally conscious fashion." • One World, One Rope: "teaches jump rope to children in Tanzania and Kenya, using it as a means of fostering confidence, teamwork, and leadership, and providing an infrastructure in which participants can succeed, develop healthy lifestyles, take on leadership roles and strengthen social ties." • Niger Stove Project: "reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve the respiratory health of families by disseminating low-cost, fuel-efficient stoves through an alternative-income program benefiting disadvantaged women." • Valley Community Kitchen: "promote economic development in the Coal River Valley of southern West Virginia by supporting food entrepreneurship." • Cooperative Food Market: working to start a grocery in an urban food desert on Cleveland's near west side.