Social Enterprise Academy: Enhancing the Impacts of the Non Profit Sector on Leadership and Job Creation Thru Research Models

Abstract

The Social Enterprise Academy (SEA) is a new unit in the existing Melton Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of South Alabama. SEA is focused on capacity building and developing new leaders with an entrepreneurial mindset. These entrepreneurial leaders are the future job creators and provide services to sectors that are underserved or omitted from government programs. A research project focusing on measures of entrepreneurial self efficacy, entrepreneurial orientation and entrepreneurial intent are used to develop a baseline for leaders of nonprofit organizations in mid market cities in the United States.