Midwest Symposium on Social Entrepreneurship

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About

The Symposium will be held at the Kauffman Foundation Conference Center (4801 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, MO 64110) on Friday, May 16, 2025..

Over the last approximately two decades, we have witnessed significantly expanding interest and initiatives in social entrepreneurship—a movement that crosses the boundaries of the business, nonprofit, and public sectors, and is growing. This Midwest Symposium on Social Entrepreneurship offers a forum to continue the advancement of social entrepreneurship thinking, teaching, practice, and associated tools. The event promotes collaborative exchange of knowledge and experiences and networking opportunities through presentations and interactive discussions among entrepreneurs, business and nonprofit practitioners, teachers, researchers, funders, government, and others interested in sharing and shaping learning focused on community building and promoting successful social entrepreneurship.

Questions? Contact Tony Luppino by email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or phone at 816.235.6165.

Who we are

The CLEI is a vehicle for multidisciplinary collaborators to form and deploy teams that promote the use of entrepreneurship and innovation in providing high-quality education, addressing societal needs with a diversity of knowledge bases and perspectives, and producing thoughtful and effective solutions to generate public good. UMKC’s CLEI is led by the Law School because laws are involved in virtually all challenging endeavors and the Law School emphasizes training context-aware, creative, brave, and generous lawyers to join in teams that are instruments of positive change in communities, businesses, policy, research, and the arts. We exemplify that belief by partnering with leaders from all fields in common missions to make all of the communities we serve more prosperous.