Our three organizations are working together to provide continuity of information

and connectivity among all of its members starting from our undergraduates

to graduate students to our alumni and community leaders.

We jointly share information on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.

We also share our webpage at:

www.ctr.usf.edu/BNFE-CEO and   www.BNFE.org

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Bulls’ New Frontier of Entrepreneurship (BNFE) is a student organization that grew out of the Entrepreneurship master’s program at USF’s College of Business. The club is directly affiliated with USF’s Center for Entrepreneurship. However, we look to engage other schools, community members, and business leaders throughout the Tampa Bay area. As an organization, we want to bridge the gap between theory and practice … between a vision and its reality.

Through our club functions and events, we intend to help our students or entrepreneurs with building business connections, and mentoring relationships with other successful business leaders. By providing these networking opportunities, we hope our entrepreneurs will gain valuable advice, information, and support from other established business owners and executives.

In turn, our executives can potentially find the next new innovation to fund, or have an excellent resource to recruit creative and well-educated job candidates. We also hope that these additional educational and networking opportunities will lead to better business decisions and more successful start-ups.

Additionally, we will continue to provide educational workshops, conferences, or speaking engagements to supplement our master’s degree program. We will also participate in national competitions, student initiatives, or other area programs to promote our club while giving back to our community with valuable knowledge and research.

I. Mission
To advance interdisciplinary entrepreneurship through education, mentoring relationships, and networking opportunities

II. Vision
To develop tomorrow’s leaders.
To create a nationally recognized entrepreneurship club that offers support to student entrepreneurs and area business owners though education, research initiatives, and outreach programs.

III. Values

• Entrepreneurship is a life long quest
• Developing diversity in skills enhancing positive outcomes
• Treating individuals with honesty and integrity
• Accelerating entrepreneurship through education, training and research
• Giving of your time, talent and resources develops the giver as well as the recipient

IV. Objectives

• Create synergistic relationships with students, area businesses, and the business community
• Help students accelerate from business development, innovations, and research … to start-up … to the marketplace
• Help student and area business entrepreneurs reach the next level with access to educational workshops, conferences, and networking opportunities
• Add value to our community and region through student initiatives and outreach programs that promote economic growth
• Combine our efforts with other area business improvement centers

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ANTI-HAZING CLAUSE
Our organization agrees to abide by Florida State Statute #1006.63 regarding hazing.

“This organization prohibits its members, both individually and collectively from committing any acts of hazing as defined herein:
‘Hazing,’ means any action or situation, which recklessly or intentionally endangers the mental or physical health or safety of a student for the purpose of initiation or admission into or affiliation with this organization. Such terms shall include, but not be limited to, any brutality of a physical nature, such as whipping, beating, branding, forced calisthenics, exposure to the elements, forced consumption of any food, liquor, drug, or other substance, or any forced activity which could adversely affect the mental or physical health, the safety or dignity of the individual to extreme mental stress, such as sleep deprivation, forced exclusion from social contact, forced conduct which could result in extreme embarrassment, or any other forced activity which could adversely affect the mental or physical health, the safety or dignity of the individual. For the purpose of this section, any activity as described above upon which the initiation or admission into or affiliation with this organization is directly or indirectly conditioned shall be presumed to be a ‘forced activity,’ the willingness of an individual to participate in such activity notwithstanding.”