Team Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management

Learn to become a team entrepreneur and get ready for the GIG Economy while earning your Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts degree in beautiful Olympia, State of Washington

At Evergreen, our learning model inspires students to become team-entrepreneurs, serve the community, and develop new ways to meet challenges in any arena they choose – from business and education, to healthcare, the arts, and the environment. Our team-entrepreneurship programs are designed around our extensive range of entrepreneurship incubators to emphasize hands-on, collaborative, interdisciplinary learning across significant differences, supporting and benefiting from local and global commitments to social justice, diversity, environmental stewardship and service in the public interest.

Our Evergreen Student Entrepreneurs and Student Entrepreneurs from Mondragon Team Academy’s LEINN International are the energetic driving forces behind the design of this Evergreen Entrepreneurship program. This is historically how our Evergreen programs have been designed. This website documents our Program design progress and design activities.

Evergreen Programs being designed by Evergreen Entrepreneurship Students, Evergreen Faculty and ABORA Mondragon University Entrepreneurs

Evergreen Programs being designed by Evergreen Student Entrepreneurs LEINN Mondragon Team Academy student entrepreneurs and faculty.

We envision our student body to be leaders of their communities, while staying interconnected and aligned with the different agents that are part of the local ecosystem. We are perceived as doers, empowered to change the world, and examples of sustainability. Our actions are also visible and tangible. We are able to turn problems into opportunities through cooperation and teamwork, starting enterprises within the school. Our connections and care about the issues that surround us create value for others; we build community relationships meaningfully. We are also experts at navigating tensions and deeply introspective. At Evergreen, these goals are defined within the frame of our values and ethos. Interdisciplinary Education is must for an effective Entrepreneurship Program.

We are the place where eager minds learn to create our ever-changing world. We create chaos with purpose.

Evergreen is a progressive, public liberal arts and sciences college located in Olympia, Washington, in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. Learn more.

The Evergreen State College has been accredited continuously by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities since receiving initial accreditation in 1974.  The Commission most recently reaffirmed Evergreen’s accreditation in 2019.

  
The Evergreen Entrepreneur by Nataly Salguero (Olympia, WA 08/18)
I am in the business of removing dysfunctional beliefs from society.
I am in the business of giving people the confidence that they can achieve their goals,
I am in the business of teaching people skills that make those goals a reality.
I am in the business of creating other businesses that put people and planet over profit.
I am in the business of creating a world that reflects my values.
My actions help close the wage gap within disenfranchised communities.
My actions produce systems and solutions that have long life cycles that better serve all individuals and the environment.
My actions inject energy into my local economy and in turn my community flourishes.
I am the business of not simply being against something but instead being for something and commit myself to helping solve problems in our society through my everyday actions.
I am an Evergreen Entrepreneur and I’m open for business.
A DEFINITION OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP AT EVERGREEN:
Entrepreneurship is the individual’s ability to translate ideas into action. It encompasses creativity, innovation and risk-taking, as well as the ability to plan and direct action towards the achievement of goals. These qualities support everyday life in education, at work, in leisure activities and in other societal activities. These qualities are needed in entrepreneurship, but they also enhance workers’ awareness of their work and help them seize opportunities (Finland).