Utah Valley University Baugh Entrepreneurship Institute
resource active confidence: Medium status: Useful updated 2026-08-11
Summary
UVU's entrepreneurship resource is now presented publicly as the Chelsea & Casey Baugh Entrepreneurship Institute. The public name is now the Chelsea & Casey Baugh Entrepreneurship Institute; the older imported title is retained only in the stable URL.
Who It's For
The institute primarily helps UVU students who want to launch or grow a business while in school. It also has pathways for mentors, sponsors, and community members who want to support student entrepreneurs.
It is particularly relevant for student founders in Utah County who want hands-on classes, mentoring, workshops, pitch opportunities, competitions, or early non-dilutive funding.
What It Provides
The official page describes entrepreneurship coursework, lecture series, workshops, conferences, mentoring appointments, pitch events, student business tradeshows, ZinnStarter, VentureCon, We Lift, seed funding, and community involvement through programs such as WolverINC and WINGS Society.
It also reports program-level metrics such as funding awarded, students served, active mentors, and current student businesses; treat those as provider-reported.
How To Use It
Start with the official website, then confirm current programs before recommending.
- Official website · https://www.uvu.edu/woodbury/entrepreneurship/
- Email: einstitute@uvu.edu
- Startup State listing: https://startup.utah.gov/business-resource/utah-valley-university-uvu-entrepreneur-institute/
Cost
The page does not give one universal price because offerings vary across courses, workshops, mentoring, competitions, and funding. Most resource pathways appear tied to UVU students or the UVU entrepreneurship community, but event and mentor participation may include broader community roles. Verify program-specific rules before referral.
Best Fits
Best fits are UVU students who want to become revenue-generating entrepreneurs, validate a business idea, practice selling, earn class credit while building, compete for equity-free seed funding, or connect with mentors.
It is less direct for nonstudent companies unless they are mentoring, sponsoring, hiring, or otherwise engaging with the UVU entrepreneurship community.
Evidence
- UVU Baugh Entrepreneurship Institute Page · https://www.uvu.edu/woodbury/entrepreneurship/
- Startup State Resource List source note · https://startup.utah.gov/resources/
Open Questions
- Which programs are open to non-UVU students?
- What are current ZinnStarter and VentureCon deadlines, award amounts, and eligibility rules?
- Which UVU pathways best serve women entrepreneurs through We Lift?
- Confidence is capped at Medium because no primary record for this institute could be found. Searched 2026-08-11: no federal award in USAspending names the institute, ZinnStarter, or VentureCon, and UVU's federal awards are Department of Education programs (GEAR UP, CARES Act, Strengthening Institutions) unrelated to it. The institute is a university unit, so it has no identifier of its own. Two registry records exist for the parent institutions and neither carries a claim on this page: UVU itself appears in the IRS Utah exempt-organizations extract at EIN 87-0280648 (501(c)(3), exemption ruling 2007-08, no filing requirement), and the Utah Valley University Foundation at EIN 87-0036944 does file. The Foundation's Form 990 is the most promising primary next stop, because it is where a named gift such as the Baugh endowment and any institute-restricted funds would be reported; the Utah Board of Higher Education's program-approval records are the other. The provider-reported program metrics this page already flags — funding awarded, students served, mentors, active student businesses — should not be repeated as fact until one of those records carries them.