30% of entrepreneurship is teachable. 70% is experiential. We can give you both.
The Center for Entrepreneurship and Community Development is Loyola's hub for entrepreneurial activity across campus and a vital link to the New Orleans entrepreneurial community.
Anyone can have a good idea - but it takes skill development and practice to turn that idea into a profitable venture. As one of the best cities for young entrepreneurs (Lending Tree, 2018), New Orleans is particularly well positioned to provide the hands-on, entrepreneurial experience students need to be successful after college.
Interested in getting involved with the Center?
Students need experience. New Orleans needs talent. We can help connect them and make an impact - but we need your help! Sign up to mentor with Wolf Pack LaunchU, or present at the weekly Innovate.Thursday speaker series, or make a gift to allow the Center to continue its efforts to provide an innovation toolkit to the entire Loyola University community.
Mentors
Your business and professional expertise is invaluable to a founder launching a new venture. Our Loyola entrepreneurs are undergraduate and graduate students as well as alumni, faculty, staff and parents - the entire Loyola New Orleans family. As a mentor, you can participate in specific programs such as Wolf Pack LaunchU and Lean LaunchPad - FedTech or you may work with individual Loyola entrepreneurs who come to the Center seeking guidance on the startup they launched on their own. We'll have startups that range from food to tech, from healthcare to athletics, from digital to manufacturing - and everything in between.
Speakers & Instructors
At Wolf Pack LaunchU, we are looking for professionals who can not only speak to their specialty by provide actionable steps our founders can take to apply your information within their venture startup. The areas of expertise we are seeking are: Legal formation, IP protections, Financial Forecasting for startups, Bookkeeping for startups, team development and HR principles, Branding, Digital and Guerilla marketing. Or, speak to students from across campus at the weekly Innovate.Thursday speaker series, featuring innovators from throughout New Orleans and the Gulf South that are making cool happen.
Donors
Can you or your company supply some pro bono services to assist in launching a startup? You set the service parameters - be it simple advice or counsel, a specific task, or a volume of time. Our community at the Center is open to various programming ideas and plans - reach out and let us know what you have in mind!
Faculty & Staff
Meet the team that makes the Center happen.
More ways to make it happen
The Center features an advisory board that supports programming across Loyola's campus and the greater New Orleans community - the Professional Advisory Board. Learn more and get involved at the links below.
Professional Advisory Board
A group of alumni, innovators, entrepreneurs, and community leaders providing support to the Center.