With support from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, UMKC is starting a new grant program. Called the Entrepreneurship Innovation Grant (EIG), students and faculty from every department across campus are encouraged by UMKC to submit proposals. “We don’t want students and faculty to think that entrepreneurship is only a business process, it’s more than that,” Tony Mendes, the managing director of the Regnier Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at UMKC, said. “You can be entrepreneurial in a lot of different ways. So we are providing these grants to help students, faculty, and certain departments on campus to think creatively.”