The Jim Moran Institute for Global Entrepreneurship (JMI), housed in Florida State University's Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship, is accepting applications for its upcoming programs extending across Florida.
JMI's regional reach includes offices and programs in Northeast Florida (Jacksonville), Northwest Florida (Tallahassee), Central Florida (Tampa) and South Florida (Fort Lauderdale). Each office has program deadlines approaching for either the fall 2025 or spring 2026 semester. JMI offers a variety of impactful programs in each region that equip the next generation of entrepreneurs with the skills needed for success.
As the challenge of operating and growing a small business becomes increasingly complex, JMI remains a source of expertise and executive education. JMI focuses on assisting businesses with a minimum of three employees who have been in business for at least three years for little to no cost.
Maintaining one of the most extensive small business outreach programs in the nation, JMI serves small business owners and nonprofit organizations throughout the state of Florida by offering the following programs:
- The Small Business Executive Program (SBEP) is designed for CEOs, entrepreneurs, business owners and presidents of small businesses. Through learning the Business Model Canvas, graduates emerge as stronger leaders, who are ready to capitalize on business opportunities.
- The Nonprofit Executive Program (NPEP) is for executive directors, presidents and CEOs of nonprofit organizations. Graduates emerge with the skills and training needed to turn challenges into strategic advantages, capitalize on business opportunities and implement best practice management.
- The Leon Entrepreneurship and Adversity Program (LEAP) seeks to help those in the Big Bend region (Leon, Wakulla and Gadsden counties) and other adjacent communities facing economic or other hardships to start and grow businesses of their own. The program lasts 10 months.
- The Accelerate Franklin Entrepreneurship Program (AFEP) seeks to help emerging entrepreneurs looking to take existing idea-stage, micro and small ventures into sustainable ventures in Franklin County and other adjacent communities.
- The Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans Accelerate (EBV Accelerate) is a three-phase program that gives veterans with a successful business the tools and coaching to propel their businesses to the next phase: sustainable growth.
- The Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans' Families (EBV-F) is designed to take advantage of the skills, resources and infrastructure of higher education to offer cutting-edge, experiential training in entrepreneurship and small business management.
For more program and specific deadline information, visit jimmoraninstitute.fsu.edu/deadlines.
About the Jim Moran Institute for Global Entrepreneurship
The Jim Moran Institute for Global Entrepreneurship cultivates, trains and inspires entrepreneurial leaders through world-class executive education, applied training, public recognition and leading-edge research.
Jim Moran was an automotive pioneer and an entrepreneur at heart, who at the age of seven, sold soda pop at sandlot baseball games in Chicago. With a career that spanned more than six decades, he built an amazing chronicle of achievements in the automobile industry.
His vision for the Jim Moran Institute was to provide opportunities that would help others become more successful business owners. A 1995 contribution from Jim and Jan Moran and JM Family Enterprises established the Jim Moran Institute for Global Entrepreneurship at the Florida State University College of Business. Since 2011, further enhancements to the Jim Moran Institute and its outreach have been made possible by Jan Moran and The Jim Moran Foundation. In 2023, the Jim Moran Institute transitioned to the Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship.
