What is The Garage?
We fuel transformation.
We are the heart of innovation, imagination, and collaboration at Northwestern.
We bring together a cross-disciplinary community of students, faculty, staff, and alumni who all share a passion for building new ideas. The 11,000 square foot space, carved out of the North Campus parking structure, is home to any Northwestern student building their ideas into reality. At the core, The Garage is startup central at Northwestern. We are a community, space, and network of resources for every Northwestern student to learn, iterate, and grow.
OUR MANIFESTO
WE EMPOWER ENTREPRENEURS WITH WISDOM AND PROGRAMMING TO BUILD SKILLS AROUND CO-CREATION, LEADERSHIP, AND NETWORKING TO MOTIVATE THEM TO BUILD A FUTURE ALL THEIR OWN.
We live by the following three pillars.
TRUST YOURSELF
We believe your inherent gifts, wisdom, and strength are already within you. We inspire real power to trust yourself.
DO THE WORK
We nourish the foundational elements of leadership. We invigorate the core of one’s potential to lead with integrity and nurture the ability to be accountable and responsible to ourselves and others.
FORGE YOUR OWN PATH
Live your purpose. Step into your truth. This is your time to champion the wins and failures that shape you for the better. We believe that leadership crafted with intention, compassion, playfulness, and a drive to improve our world is the new frontier.
By the Numbers
FAQs
Take a Look Under the Hood
- Recap: Pathways for Women in Venture Capital
- A New Name for The Garage’s Pre-Accelerator: Introducing Jumpstart!
- The Garage Gift Guide 2020
- Arts & Entrepreneurship: From the Classroom to a COVID 19 World
- The Garage Map: A Deep Dive
- The Garage Releases 2019-20 Year in Review
Questions?
Email us at thegarage@northwestern.edu