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Isabella Bank Institute for Entrepreneurship

We are a dedicated institute for student entrepreneurs across campus and beyond. We aim to maximize your success by fostering your entrepreneurial mindset, promote inter-disciplinary collaboration and provide support for the creation and development of your new ventures. Jumpstart your ideas and get involved today!

Tune in for excitement!

Passion. Potential. Pitches. Don't miss any of the 2025 New Venture Challenge excitement.

Tune in Friday, April 11 at 1 p.m. for great ideas and fierce competition. Then, join the judges, mentors, spectators and teams as they see who is going home with thousands of dollars in venture financing. The awards broadcast begins at 6:30 p.m. and one team will walk away as the overall best venture. 

Start your entrepreneurial journey

Central Michigan University’s College of Business Administration is the home of the Isabella Bank Institute for Entrepreneurship and the first Department of Entrepreneurship in the state of Michigan. We are a student-centric hub where experiential, curricular, and external entrepreneurial opportunities intersect.

Our mission is to maximize student success by fostering a campus-wide entrepreneurial mindset that promotes inter-disciplinary collaboration and the creation of new ventures.

We aim to create innovative programming, boost cross-campus and ecosystem collaboration and provide a comprehensive mentoring program.

Our institute provides extracurricular opportunities and is open to all undergraduate and graduate CMU students.

Student opportunities

  • Meet experienced alumni, faculty, entrepreneurs, investors, and other business and political leaders.
  • Learn practical skills, innovative thinking, and connect with mentors and entrepreneurial resources.
  • Attend skill-building workshops and compete in pitch competitions and Hackathons.
  • Take part in special scholarship programs and travel experiences.
  • Pitch your venture at our signature New Venture Challenge event and compete for up to $20,000 in cash awards.

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      Grant supports child health podcasts

      by Sanjay Gupta
      A $50,000 grant from the Children’s Foundation will support a podcast series by four CMU colleges focused on children’s health and development.

      CMU will continue to educate health care providers, clinicians and educators on topics related to child development and the treatment and prevention of children's health issues, thanks to a grant from the Children's Foundation.

      The $50,000 grant supports a podcast series titled "CMU Shifting Mindsets for Better Health!" The podcasts are a collaborative initiative by the CMU College of Medicine, the College of the Arts and Media, the College of Education and Human Services, the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences and The Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow College of Health Professions.

      "Topics related to children and family stress are especially needed during the COVID-19 pandemic," said Alison Arnold, director for CMU's Interdisciplinary Center for Community Health and Wellness. "In Michigan, more than two-thirds of adults have experienced one or more adverse childhood experience. Child trauma and toxic stress are associated with physical illness and risk behaviors such as addiction, mental illness, asthma, diabetes, obesity, heart disease and other conditions."

      The initiative builds upon a recent podcast series about adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs, funded by the College of the Arts and Media, "Responding to ACEs: Resources for Resilience."

      "CMU Shifting Mindsets for Better Health!" is expected to be available in late 2020.

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