Elseworks
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ELSEWORKS, the entrepreneurship program at Millsaps College, a small liberal arts institution in Jackson, Mississippi, has been working for over a decade to help revitalize the Midtown neighborhood, which is adjacent to its campus. The entrepreneurship program functions like a business consultancy firm and is led by faculty members, staff, and alumni in guiding student business analysts employing a deeply place-based model.
Working closely in partnership with Midtown Partners the Business Association of Midtown, the Midtown Neighborhood Association, and others, ELSEWORKS provides a wide range of business assistance services, from business consulting and strategy, business planning, financial proformas and accounting, market research and reporting, marketing and operations, and community planning and events. In partnership with residents, community stakeholders, business leaders, and industry experts, the ELSEWORKS team has provided an increasingly deep level of support to an increasingly wide number of projects - including the recruitment and cultivation of new businesses - all while fostering Millsaps students as they acquire real world business experience and learn how to impact their surrounding communities.
Grounded by patient investment and student engagement, ELSEWORKS has gone beyond the typical anchor institution model of using their procurement to help spur economic growth in challenged communities to fostering creative entrepreneurship and urban growth in the Midtown neighborhood of Jackson, Mississippi