Students who are looking to pursue their dreams and start their own business will have the opportunity to learn from Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of Ben and Jerry’s Homemade Inc.
Sponsored by the Civic and Community Engagement and Research Project, Greenfield will be on campus April 16 to speak to students before attending the civic leadership banquet and then sharing his experience on “Entrepreneurial Spirit, Social Responsibility, Radical Business Philosophy (and free ice cream).”
Greenfield graduated from Oberlin College with a pre-med degree and later quit his lab technician job in 1977 to take a Penn State correspondence class in ice cream making. With his friend since junior high school, Ben Cohen, Ben and Jerry’s Homemade ice cream parlor was born in Burlington, Vermont in 1978.
The small store front venture turned into a $300 million ice cream empire.
Greenfield and Cohen were awarded the Corporate Giving Award in 1988 for donating 7.5 percent of their profits to nonprofit organizations by the the Council of Economic Priorities, and were named the U.S. Small Business Persons of the Year in 1988 in a White House Ceremony hosted by President Regan.
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