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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt;"></span> <span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some of these resources may exist independently under different programs or as autonomous activities, but there is no formalised means of connecting them and centralising the steps for a mature entrepreneur to scale beyond Swarthmore.</span>
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*<span style="font-size:larger;">Swarthmore Investment Club: will be exposed to best practices in Impact Investing. They will support and assist pro bono investors of the Impact Investing project. This educational experience will ensure the sustainability of the pro bono investor pipeline.</span>
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<br/><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">'''<span style="background-color:#ffffe0;">Strategic Priority #3.2 (Lamia 2018):</span>'''</span></font><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color:#ffffe0;">Develop spin-off opp</span>'''<span style="background-color:#ffffe0;">ortunities to support more mature entrepreneurs at Swarthmore College by</span>'''</span>'''<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color:#ffffe0;">connecting these entrepreneurs to the resources needed for them to accelerate in the ‘real world’.</span></span>'''
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Though certain spin off opportunities do currently exist, they are not sufficient, and it is difficult for developing entrepreneurs to really grow and scale both through the resources offered as Swarthmore and beyond the school campus. The need for spin-off opportunities could most easily take the form of a program that connects certain budding entrepreneurs who have gone through earlier resources from the College to existing opportunities beyond the school.</span>
4. Continous community feedback from all three campuses is not to be overlooked throughout this proposal. The most fundamental tenant of this work is giving one another a voice- and- embracing this priority will be at the forefront of this collaboration involving email surveys, classroom engagement, presentations, and similar means of allowing community members to share their opinions on the program.
<span style= "display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 224); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;">Strategic Priority #5.2 (Emma 2019): Making the I&E Community More Accessible</span> <span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 224); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;">Related </span>We have noticed that a lot of our programs on campus that encourage innovation and entrepreneurship assume that students already know about or are interested the topic. We want to invite students from a broader set of backgrounds to participate in I&E by creating programs geared towards educating students about the basics of what I&E is and how it connects to their own lives so that they might be more likely to participate in other existing programs in the future. We envisioned setting up workshops in casual spaces all around campus (lounges in dorms, common spaces in academic buildings, the dining hall, etc.) where interested participants could easily meet and passers-by could get drawn in spontaneously. To add to the welcoming atmosphere, there might be snacks or other incentives to stop by and join in. There might be literature (pamphlets or flyers) as a visual aid to the learning process, as well as some structured topics to help get conversation flowing. The idea is to ease students into I&E by identifying problems they would like to solve and how design thinking could relate to that, but not necessarily asking them to start solving them in that setting. In this way the workshops are low-stakes and hopefully less intimidating to someone who doesn't identify themselves as already part of the I&E community. = <spanRelated Links</span> =
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Swarthmore_College Swarthmore College Overview]</span>
