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Saint Peter’s Entrepreneurial Programs Make Local News in the Bergen Record
At Saint Peter’s University in Jersey City, teams of students in a class also work directly with small business owners to provide analysis, identify and make recommendations for improvement. So far, 48 companies and more than 300 students have participated in the program at the Ignite Institute, which, through a partnership with the nonprofit Rising […]
Saint Peter’s hosts Golden Door Film Festival, featuring local film makers; Ignite Innovation Fellow Reyna Dominguez interns for the Festival
The Golden Door International Film Festival was founded in 2010 by Bill Sorvino as a way to provide an equal platform to all filmmakers well known and otherwise. Every year Golden Door hosts a four day festival giving that opportunity to filmmakers, actors and crew to network and shares their work with the public. On […]
Claire Corea, Ignite Institute Research & Policy Fellow, Collaborates on Innovate Urban Planning Project
Jersey City officials taped students from Saint Peter’s University and New Jersey Institute of Technology to help identify commercial vacancies and creatively re-imagine how they would look with new small business tenants. The city’s Office of Innovation has partnered with the Ignite Institute at Saint Peter’s University, and Freedom By Design – a student group […]
Inspire, Motivate and Support: Women’s Entrepreneurship Week Event
Women entrepreneurs gathered in The Duncan Family Sky Room on October 18 for a networking event hosted by the Ignite Institute as part of Women Entrepreneurship Week (WEW). The event was co-sponsored by the Department of Women’s Studies, the School of Business, community partners Rising Tide Capital and Greater Newark Enterprises Corporation (GNEC) and made […]
Women Entrepreneurs Attend a Networking Event
Women entrepreneurs gathered in The Duncan Family Sky Room on October 18 for a networking event hosted by the Ignite Institute and co-sponsored by the Department of Women’s Studies, the School of Business, and community partners Rising Tide Capital and Greater Newark Enterprises Corporation (GNEC) as part of Women Entrepreneurship Week (WEW). The event was […]
Grow your Consumer Base Workshop
Attend “Grow your Consumer Base: An Introduction to Export Strategies, Tools & Techniques” on October 25 from 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. in The Duncan Family Sky Room. Details and event registration can be found here. All attendees must be registered. The event is organized by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the District Export […]
Ignite Institute Hosts 3rd Annual Local Living Economy Summit
#LLESummit and #IgnitingAction were local trends on Twitter during the 3rd Annual Local Living Economy Summit, which took place on May 12 in the Mac Mahon Student Center at Saint Peter’s University. The event attracted enthusiastic leaders from business, city government, philanthropic foundations, nonprofits and higher education who contributed to the online conversation with over […]
Local Entrepreneur’s Presentation to Internet Marketing Class
By Professor Robert M. Donnelly Gina Morano, founder and President of Pink Tomato, a company that she founded to make and market fresh, natural, and organic cosmetics for women with skin problems, was a guest speaker at Saint Peter’s University. Gina is from Colombia and initially worked for 4 years at a beauty Spa that […]
Meet Dawn McLaughlin: A 2016 Ignite Institute MicroBusiness Consulting Program Partner
Positively Publishing Kids is headed by Dawn McLaughlin, a local entrepreneur in the Hudson County Area of New Jersey. She is an ambitious woman looking to use her talents in writing to create a business especially focused on the future of our society… children. Through the power of writing she intends to educate the younger […]
Meet Kimberly Sumpter of Wax Kandy: A 2016 Ignite Institute MicroBusiness
Kimberly Sumpter, the creator of Wax Kandy Candles started her company after realizing her love for candles and recognizing that many of the candles on the market were not what she was looking for. Early on, this entrepreneurs worked hard to develop great products and a strong brand image, which led to success. In 2014 […]
