News and Notes
Smith Net Impact Weekly E-News for
February 1, 2009
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here for last week's newsletter]
Greetings
Net
Impact,
Just one
new
announcement
this
week
(item
1), but
lots of
events
on the
horizon:
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In this week's newsletter: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1.
Last
minute
event
announcement:
Green
Job
Creation—Learning
from
What
Works
2. Help
Infuse
Social
Impact
in the
MBA
Curriculum!
3. Green
Jobs
Expo
4. The
Idealist.org
Nonprofit
Career
Fair
5. DC
Net
Impact
Service
Corps
Projects
for
Spring
2009
6.
Consolidated
Internship
List
(Net
Impact
membership
required)
7.
Access:
Voice of
the Next
Generation
Student
Essay
Contest
8. Win a
full
scholarship
to the
Global
Social
Benefit
Incubator
9.
Spring
2009
Grad
Student
Projects
Posted
on Net
Impact
10. The
MBA
Enterprise
Corps is
Now
Accepting
Applications
11.
General
Announcements
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1.
Last
minute
event
announcement:
Green
Job
Creation—Learning
from
What
Works
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Wal-Mart,
in
partnership
with the
Wal-Mart
Green
Jobs
Council
(W-GJC),
will
host a
briefing
for
Members
of
Congress,
their
staff,
Congressional
Committees,
and the
public
on
Tuesday,
February
3rd,
2009
from
2:00 –
3:00
P.M. EST
in the
Cannon
House
Office
Building
Room 340
to
discuss
success
stories
in
creating
green
jobs.
The
interactive
panel
will be
moderated
by
Wal-Mart’s
SVP for
Sustainability,
Matt
Kistler,
and will
include:
·Chris
Sultemeier,
Senior
Vice
President
Fleet
and
Transportation,
Wal-Mart
Stores,
Inc.
·Kim
Saylors-Laster,
Vice
President
Energy,
Wal-Mart
Stores,
Inc.
·Dan
Lashof,
PhD
Director
of the
Climate
Center,
Natural
Resources
Defense
Council
·Jackie
Prince
Roberts,
Director
of
Sustainable
Technologies,
Environmental
Defense
Fund
·Susan
Herndon,
Vice
President,
Lennox
Industries
·Chris
Spain,
Chairman
of the
Board
and
Chief
Strategy
Officer,
Hydropoint
Data
Systems
The
panel
will
build on
the key
findings
of an
October
2008
meeting
of the
Wal-Mart
Green
Jobs
Council
at which
top
companies
identified
the key
catalysts
and
barriers
to green
job
creation.
Many
other
Wal-Mart
executives
will be
available
for
discussion
after
the
briefing,
as well
as
several
of the
Wal-Mart
Green
Jobs
Council
participants
representing
leading
suppliers
in the
fields
of
renewable
energy,
energy
efficiency,
transportation,
waste
reduction,
and
water
efficiency.
Tuesday,
February
3, 2009,
2:00
P.M. to
3:00
P.M. EST
Cannon
House
Office
Building
Room 340
RSVP by
12 P.M.
on
February
2 to
Terrence
Bogans
at
terrence.bogans@wal-mart.com
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2.
Help
Infuse
Social
Impact
in the
MBA
Curriculum!
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Please
consider
joining
a team
of MBA
students
dedicated
to
infusing
the MBA
curriculum
at Smith
with
social
impact!
You will
have the
opportunity
to
affect
real
long-term
change
at Smith
and
create
an
institutional
shift in
how
current
and
future
students
learn
about
social
and
environmental
stewardship
through
the
Smith
classroom
experience.
Dean
Anand
and the
Dingman
Center
are
strongly
in our
corner
and we
have a
great
opportunity
as a
result.
This
effort
will
include
identifying
cases,
content,
field
work and
even new
courses
that
integrate
the role
of
business
in
society
into
your
business
management
education.
If
interested,
please
contact
Nitin
Sawant (nitin_nitin@hotmail.com) or
John
Olson (jolson2010@rhsmith.umd.edu). Upon
contact,
you will
learn
greater
detail
about
the
effort
and how
you can
help.
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3. Green
Jobs
Expo
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Visit
the Expo
to
Discover
the
World of
Green
Jobs
Thursday,
February
5, from
9:00
a.m. –
6:00
p.m.
The 2009
Good
Jobs,
Green
Jobs
National
Conference
will
feature
a Green
Jobs
Expo
showcasing
the many
pathways
to green
jobs and
careers.
The
Expo,
which is
free and
open to
the
public,
will be
held on
Thursday,
February
5, from
9:00
a.m. –
6:00
p.m. at
the
Marriott
Wardman
Park in
Washington,
D.C.
Located
at the
Woodley
Park/
Adams
Morgan
metro
station.
Expo
attendees
can
visit
over 85
booths
from
academic
institutions,
manufacturers,
non-profit
agencies,
corporations
and
governmental
agencies
highlighting
interactive
and
dynamic
displays
that
portray
a
multitude
of
career
options
in the
emerging
green
economy.
Please
see
www.greenjobsconference.org
for the
list of
exhibitors.
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4. The
Idealist.org Nonprofit Career Fair
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This
fair provides an opportunity to meet
representatives from nonprofit
organizations that offer employment,
internship, and volunteer opportunities.
The event will be held in conjunction
with the Powershift conference, a
national youth summit to solve the
climate crisis.
When: Friday, February 27th, 2:00
P.M. to 5:00 P.M.
Where: Walter E. Washington
Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon
Place, NW
Cost: FREE!
To register, and for more details
including schedule, directions, and a
list of registered organizations and
their current opportunities (jobs,
internships, and volunteer
opportunities), please go to:
http://snipr.com/idealistpowershiftcf
Finally, before attending this event,
here is a free online resource to help
students learn more about finding a job
in the nonprofit sector:
The Idealist Guide to Nonprofit Careers
for First-time Job Seekers and The
Idealist Guide to Nonprofit Careers for
Sector Switchers:
http://www.idealist.org/en/career/guide/index.html
For questions about the Nonprofit Career
Fair, please contact Joe Grant at joe@idealist.org
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5. DC
Net
Impact
Service
Corps
Projects
for
Spring
2009
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Below
are the
project
descriptions
for the
Spring
2009
cycle of
Net
Impact
DC
Service
Corps.
To
participate,
please
send an
email to
service.corps.dc@gmail.com
Project
1
Project
type:
marketing
Client
is an
international
policy
center
that
convenes
educators,
executives,
policy
makers
and
rising
leaders
from
around
the
world
for
issue-centered
exchange
and
problem-solving.
The
organization
seeks a
Service
Corps
consulting
team to
help
research,
build
and test
a
strategy
to raise
the
organization's
visibility
in and
participation
from the
United
States.
The team
will
help
identify
institutional
markets
for the
organization's
programs
and
create a
marketing
plan to
raise
interest,
inquiries,
enrollment
and fee
income
from
prospective
government,
academic,
NGO, and
corporate
organizations.
As part
of its
research,
the team
will
develop
and test
alternative
pricing
models
and
marketing
messages
with
various
groups.
The
organization
has an
annual
operating
budget
of
$10MM.
Project
2
Project
type:
strategy
Client
connects
senior
and
retired
volunteers
who have
investment
banking
and
capital
markets
experience
with
community
development
organizations
who are
seeking
creative
solutions
to
accessing
new
sources
of
capital.
The goal
of each
project
is to
help a
community
development
organization
think
through
a
financing
need and
identify
the best
sources
and
structures
for
funding
it. Due
to the
recent
market
upheavals,
the
organization
has had
to
re-evaluate
its role
and find
new
places
to add
value to
the
community
economic
development
world.
It has
not yet
designed
a
marketing
campaign
around
this new
mission,
and
seeks a
Service
Corps
consulting
team to
create a
structure
for
this.
Project
3
Project
type:
marketing
Client
hosts an
annual
socially
responsible
business
plan
competition.
The
competition
has been
very
successful
and has
experienced
tremendous
growth.
The
latest
round of
the
competition
has
received
over 100
business
plan
entries
from
socially
responsible
entrepreneurs
and had
over 175
judges.
The
organization
is
looking
to build
upon the
success
of past
competitions
and
further
continue
the
growth.
As part
of this
project,
the
Service
Corps
consulting
team is
needed
to
assist
the
organization
with
devising
a
marketing
strategy
to reach
social
entrepreneurs
outside
of
traditional
business
school
and Net
Impact
channels.
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6.
Consolidated Internship List (Net Impact
membership required)
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A note
for all first year students: Below is a
link to a consolidated list of all the
2009 Net Impact internships with due
dates.
http://www.netimpact.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=2443
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7.
Access:
Voice of
the Next
Generation
Student
Essay
Contest
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Presented
by Net
Impact
and
Sponsored
by FedEx:
FedEx is
interested
in
learning
how
Generation
Y (Gen
Y) views
Access.
They are
challenging
Gen Y
undergraduate
and
graduate-level
students
to voice
their
ideas on
where
Access
will
take us
next and
how it
will
impact
business,
technology,
medicine,
the
environment,
the
economy,
etc. in
a 1000 -
1,500
word
essay.
The
winner
will
have
their
essay
featured
in
Access
Review,
the
annual
business
magazine
published
by FedEx
that
explores
the
powerful,
positive
megatrend
of
Access
through
a
variety
of
individual,
social,
economic
and
global
lenses.
Winners
will
also
receive
full
registration
to the
2009 Net
Impact
Conference,
plus
cash
prizes
of
$2,000,
$1,000,
and
$500.
Essays
are due:
Friday,
February
6, 2009.
For more
information
and
contest
requirements,
visit
www.netimpact.org/access
or
e-mail
access@netimpact.org.
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8. Win a
full
scholarship
to the
Global
Social
Benefit
Incubator
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Now is
the time
to apply
to the
GSBI’09
on
Social
Edge. Up
to
twenty
social
entrepreneurs
will
have a
chance
to win a
full
scholarship
(worth
US$25,000
each) to
attend
the 2009
Global
Social
Benefit
Incubator
in
Silicon
Valley.
The
two-week
intensive
immersion
program
focuses
on
venture
planning,
beneficiary
analysis,
business
models,
metrics
and
successful
scaling
strategies.
To be
part of
this
transformational
program,
you will
need to
demonstrate
that you
have the
power
and
vision
to
change
the
world
through
a
sustainable
and
scalable
approach
to
addressing
a
specific
urgent
human
need.
In
previous
years,
participants
have
come
from
Costa
Rica,
India,
Namibia,
Rwanda,
Argentina,
Cambodia,
Nigeria,
Kenya,
South
Africa,
Canada
and many
other
countries.
There is
no
application
fee. The
rigorous
application
is
rewarding,
with
many
applicants
commenting
that
they
learned
a
tremendous
amount
by going
through
the
process–a
series
of three
mentored
exercises
designed
to help
you
write
and
revise
key
sections
of your
business
plan.
Apply
today or
send the
link to
a fellow
social
entrepreneur
who can
benefit
from
such a
program.
And if
you are
not
applying,
feel
free to
offer
your
expertise
and
feedback
on other
applications.
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9.
Spring
2009
Grad
Student
Projects
Posted
on Net
Impact
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Check
out the
Net
Impact
Web site
at:
http://www.netimpact.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=2436
for some
interesting
opportunities
for
grants
and
competitions.
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10. The
MBA
Enterprise
Corps is
Now
Accepting
Applications
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The MBA
Enterprise
Corps (MBAEC),
a
division
of
Citizen’s
Development
Corps
(CDC),
is a
private
non-profit
volunteer
organization
dedicated
to
promoting
economic
development
in
emerging
markets
and
transitioning
economies.
MBAEC
provides
international
opportunities
for
recent
(within
5 years)
MBA
graduates
from the
top 50
business
schools
in the
US.
Since
its
inception
in 1990,
almost
1000 MBA
Enterprise
Corps
business
advisers
and
consultants
have
brought
cutting
edge
innovation,
unparalleled
entrepreneurial
spirit,
and
lasting
impact
to well
over
4000
enterprises
and
organizations
in more
than 25
countries
around
the
globe.
The MBA
Corps
are now
accepting
applications
for
positions
in
Africa,
Latin
America,
and
Eurasia.
2009
July
Corps
Deadline:
March
31st,
2009
See
www.mbaec.org
for
application
requirements
and more
information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
11.
General
Announcements
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Weekly
planning
meetings:
Smith
Net
Impact
planning
meetings
are held
every
Monday
at 1:15pm in
the Dingman
Center
“Bull
pit.”
(We are
sometimes also in the Dingman conference
room.) All are
welcome
to join.
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get more Smith Net Impact news and go
through our archives by visiting our Web
site:
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At the R.H. Smith School of
Business, we understand that true
business leadership creates positive
economic, social and environmental
change. Net Impact at Smith serves as a
hub for both academic and
career-oriented activities related to
developing a broader perspective of
leadership and entrepreneurship. Through
guest lecturers, student discussions,
interactive workshops, and community
volunteering, we explore new business
models and methods to exert a positive
impact upon our environment.
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Impact at Smith is dedicated to:
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VALUE all their stakeholders
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professional SUPPORT to this
growing network business leaders
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