The Center for Responsible Entrepreneurship at UNM Anderson School of Business is offering an eight-month business accelerator program to help individuals and businesses take their ideas to the next level. Participants do not have to be enrolled at UNM. Applications will be accepted until August 22 for the program that begins on September 6, 2025.

The intensive 8-month program focuses on education, mentorship, and hands-on
deliverables that include business plans and investor pitches. The curriculum, which applies to all industries, is designed to help entrepreneurs reach product-market fit, early revenue, and investor readiness.

Accepted participants must commit to attending bi-monthly Saturday half-day workshops in Santa Fe at the Higher Education Center. The program runs through Spring of 2026.

The UNM Center for Responsible Entrepreneurship aims to create a community where socially conscious entrepreneurs can learn, launch, and scale their concepts into successful for-profit business enterprises. One of its founding tenets is to bring participants a blend of context, culture, history, and change, enabling holistic and ethical leadership in Northern New Mexico. It does this by creating an engaging learning community through art, science, culture, and nature.

The accelerator program is sponsored by the City of Santa Fe Office of Economic Development, which is managing the application process and will notify applicants of program acceptance on August 25.

Apply here by August 22.