Entrepreneur to Discuss Fighting Poverty at GCC Lecture
GROVE CITY, Pa. – Andrew Cunningham, CEO and founder of New Horizons, will speak Monday at Grove City College. He will discuss “Starting from Scratch: How Entrepreneurship & Chickens are Fighting Poverty in Mozambique.”
The lecture will take place at 4 p.m. in the Great Room of Breen Student Union. Cunningham is the latest presenter in the Richard G. Staley ’62 Visionary Entrepreneur Speaker Series
Cunningham, a Zimbabwean farmer, started New Horizons in 2005 to help rural subsistence farmers produce the lowest-cost chicken in the world. New Horizons provides training and advice to about 200 local farmers, along with hatchery, slaughterhouse, freezing, packaging and sales assistance. Its hatchery produces about 40,000 chicks a week.
Cunningham also serves on the leadership team of Communities of Fusion, which incorporates two commercial egg-laying businesses, a school, a leadership college and a church plant.
The speaker series brings successful entrepreneurs to Grove City College to share stories of success and advice with students. Staley, a chemical engineering major during his time at Grove City College, pursued his entrepreneurial dream when he founded Flavor House, a leading flavoring and extract manufacturer.
The lectures are free and open to the public, but registration is required at this link. Lectures are presented in cooperation with The Business Program, which includes the departments of Accounting, Business and Entrepreneurship at Grove City College. For more information, call 724 458 2003.
Pictured: Andrew Cunningham.
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