News and Notes

Smith Net Impact Weekly E-News for February 1, 2009
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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:
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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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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.

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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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