| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 65.71 |
| Liaison | Bridget Flynn |
| Submission Date | Feb. 15, 2012 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Oberlin College
IN-3: Innovation 3
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
1.00 / 1.00 |
Colin
Koffel Environmental Sustainability Fellow Office of Environmental Sustainability |
A brief description of the innovative policy, practice, program, or outcome:
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.
A letter of affirmation from an individual with relevant expertise:
The website URL where information about the innovation is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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