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Donald McNeely Center for Entrepreneurship
College of Saint Benedict
Saint John’s University
350 Simons Hall
Collegeville, MN 56321

Margrette Newhouse
Director
[email protected]
320-363-2870

Paul Marsnik
Academic Director
Entrepreneur Scholars Program
[email protected]
320-363-2033

Kelli Gradin
Coordinator
[email protected]
320-363-2065

Center for Entrepreneurship
Student Employee
[email protected]
320-363-2764

Donald McNeely Center for Entrepreneurship

The Donald McNeely Center for Entrepreneurship is an entrepreneurship education resource that provides classes, coaching and assistance to entrepreneurs. It builds relationships among and between CSB/SJU students, faculty, alumnae/i, and community members to create and strengthen the entrepreneurial spirit.

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Donald McNeely Center Apparel Store!

The motto of the Center, and our founding academic director Paul Marsnik has never been so on point as it is now- Embrace Ambiguity!

To celebrate that motto, the creative ideas of our students, and our ever changing world we have created a partnership with Ian Scherber '16 and Duluth Screen Printing to bring you the McNeely Center Apparel Store! Hats, hoodies, laptop stickers, shirts, and so much more. Hurry though, it wont be here for long!! Store closes on September 15th!

https://duluth-screen-printing-co.printavo.com/merch/mcneely

Looking to Virtually Connect?

Check out our Virtual Hatch!
Weekly the Center for Entrepreneurship will be hosting Virtual Hatch Hours! Pop in, say hi, brainstorm some ideas, and connect! Updated Virtual Hatch Hours will be posted below.

The Donald McNeely Center for Entrepreneurship Annual Dinner

This year since we can not celebrate together, we created a virtual celebration to honor our students, volunteers, donors and the amazing past year the Center had.

Below you will find the links to our Center overview and 2019/2020 Awards. Congratulations to all our amazing volunteers, students and campus partners. thank you to all!

The McNeely Center- a thank you, and look back at 2019/2020

2019/2020 Awards

2019/20 E-Scholars Asia trip-

E-15 Group in China Hear Alex Sais's Asia experience!

Cowritten reflection of China with students of LNU

By Ryan Graham and Marina Cruz

Every semester, E-Scholars are given the opportunity to see entrepreneurship and innovation on a global scale. This past winter break, our E-15 cohort spent New Year’s Eve and into 2020 meeting with business contacts, touring factories, and exploring the huge cities of China!

Each E-Scholar (or a team) has a venture that they have been working on for the past year. To those of us with products, having the opportunity to schedule site visits with manufacturers helped us narrow down our options. And to those of us with services, there were plenty of opportunities to learn from the Chinese market through our sit downs with alum and business owners in China!

Two months prior to meeting in China, all the E-Scholars were paired in groups of two and matched with pairs of Chinese students from Lingnam Normal University in Zhangjiang, China. We were able to introduce ourselves and get to know each other a bit over WeChat before meeting in person to create and give the presentation. All of our Chinese partners major in Business English, so we were able to communicate without much of a language barrier. On the business side of the Business English major, our student partners were able to clearly understand the Business Model Canvas framework and were able to give us relevant advice that will help all of our ventures going forward. We were blown away by their amazing hospitality, innate curiosity, and hard-working spirits.

The E-15 cohort is the first E-Scholar group to get the privilege of experiencing this unique project and working with Chinese partners, but it is our sincere hope that this experience continues and that the next groups of E-Scholars visiting China will get a similar experience. The connections we made with our Chinese partners are friendships that will last a lifetime. We crafted beautiful presentations, made dumplings, shared music and cultures, toured one of the largest steel producers in the world, and even celebrated my birthday together! This project allowed us to experience China and Chinese culture on a deeper level than anything else we did throughout the trip. Although it had bumps in the road, our experience in Zhanjiang and the students of LNU was second to none!

Contact Us

Donald McNeely Center for Entrepreneurship
College of Saint Benedict
Saint John’s University
350 Simons Hall
Collegeville, MN 56321

Margrette Newhouse
Director
[email protected]
320-363-2870

Paul Marsnik
Academic Director
Entrepreneur Scholars Program
[email protected]
320-363-2033

Kelli Gradin
Coordinator
[email protected]
320-363-2065

Center for Entrepreneurship
Student Employee
[email protected]
320-363-2764

COVID-19 Resources and Fall 2020 Information

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Donald McNeely Center for Entrepreneurship

Donald McNeely Center Apparel Store!

Looking to Virtually Connect?

The Donald McNeely Center for Entrepreneurship Annual Dinner

Cowritten reflection of China with students of LNU

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