• Corporate & Foundation Relations bridges the gap between industry and academia, aligning business objectives and private foundation funding priorities with the cutting-edge research, transformative projects, and impactful programs led by JMU faculty, staff, and students.
  • The Community Engagement and Volunteer Center (CEVC) can connect you with JMU faculty to design a service-learning course or project around your challenges and needs.
  • Professional Development: JMU’s School of Professional & Continuing Education’s Professional Development offers leadership development, non-credit certificates and certifications and test preparation for individuals and custom trainings for organizations. 
  • Recruiting: The University Career Center’s Employer Services team can help you recruit JMU students for jobs.
  • Economic Development: The Office of Economic & Community Development connects businesses, industry, and economic developers with university resources to advance workforce development, technology transfer, and place-based initiatives.
  • The Shenandoah Small Business Development Center (SBDC) offers free business advising, training, and resources to firms of all sizes across the region. 
  • The Office of Procurement oversees the procurement of and all contractual agreements for goods, services and construction for JMU. Staff can assist your business with becoming a vendor to the university. 
  • Research, Economic Development, and Innovation supports students, faculty, and partners to develop solutions to institutional and real-world problems. Connect with REDI to explore research solutions.
  • JMU X-Labs is an exciting, interactive space on JMU’s campus where students and faculty from different areas of study come together to create new solutions to real problems. Explore the Industry Partners Program to see how your firm can co-create solutions with X-Labs.
  • As the region’s economic development organization, Shenandoah Valley Partnership connects investors and business leaders to economic development opportunities in the Shenandoah Valley.

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