Entrepreneurial Internship Grant

The Entrepreneurial Internship Grant is designed to encourage entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship.  Students in the program are awarded a grant stipend at the completion of an internship with an entrepreneurial business or nonprofit organization.  The program is currently funded through a Lilly Grant program to give students an opportunity to learn from local entrepreneurs and leaders of nonprofit organizations.

Applying for the Grant

Students must meet the following criteria to be eligible for the Entrepreneurial Internship Grant:

• The internship must be with an entrepreneurial or nonprofit organization
  
• The internship must be located in Indiana
  
• The business or organization must supply a written job description or list of goals for the student to complete
• The student must receive the approval of the director of the Entrepreneurship Learning Center

A limited number of entrepreneurial internship grants are available each semester.

Entrepreneurial Internship Grant Recipients

Twelve students in the Goshen College business department – which includes accounting, business, business information systems, economics and entrepreneurship majors and minors – spent the summer of 2006 working with area businesses to test and sharpen their skills, expand their interests and gain experience in the “real world” beyond college.  Read the full press release.

Doug Stuckey	Garrett Gingerich	Ivannia Perez

1. Doug Stuckey, The Old Bag Factory & Swartzendruber Hardwood Creations.
2. Jason Rupp, Pinewood Chase Miniature Golf Course
3. Nate Gautsche, CBRE Richard Ellis, Steve Pettit, Commercial Real Estate Broker
4. Kirstin Docken, Boys & Girls Club of Goshen
5. Danielle Haney, Shipshewana Auction
6. Peter Widmer, Aluminum Trailer Company
   
7. Garrett Gingerich, Veada Industries
   
8. Ivannia Perez, Habitat for Humanity of Elkhart County
9. Atlee Schrock, Main Street Books
10. Nathan Litwiler, Millrace Farmer’s Market
11. Sarah Swartzendruber, Millrace Farmer’s Market
12. Hanna Gerig, New World Arts