Sterling College

Welcome to the online home for the McVay Social Entrepreneurship Center. Our mission is to enhance the development of social entrepreneurs and social enterprises that lead positive change in the world. This mission advances the mission of Sterling College and builds on the values, knowledge, and skills acquired from a Christian liberal arts and a servant leadership curriculum.

The McVay Social Entrepreneurship Center has a vision to become known as a center that discovers, prepares, brings together and supports leaders who positively change the world through innovative profit and non-profit organizations that use business practices while sustaining a social mission. It becomes the place to go for analysis of social enterprises, their impact and best practices.

The McVay Social Entreprenuership Center at Sterling College desires to:

• Attract the best social entrepreneurial talent to Sterling College, educating, training and deploying them to the best run, most honorable social enterprises in the world.

• Partner with social enterprises and supporters of social enterprise that demonstrate and are deeply committed to building a pipeline for leaders of the best run, most honorable organizations in the world. Contributions to social enterprises include, but are not limited to providing:
  - Well educated, highly qualified leadership talent with a heart for service and skills for contribution
  - Top quality research initiatives that add to the theory and application of knowledge for social enterprises. Outcome: More and better social enterprises.

Sterling College began the Social Entrepreneurship program in conjunction with Habitat for Humanity and still maintains a covenant relationship with habitat today. For details on the Habitat for Humanity Fellows program, see the Habitat Fellows' pages. Sterling College is also associated with [Feed the Children] and [World Impact].