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The second annual Social Entrepreneurship Summer Institute (SESI), will be offered by the College of Business in June 2008. SESI provides local community organizations with free business training over three consecutive weekends, and thereafter places College of Business and other undergraduate students in those organizations as unpaid summer interns. SESI’s two-part format (classes and internships) is intended to both develop the organizations’ business acumen, and to help them better accomplish their stated missions.

The brainchild of College of Business Assistant Dean Collette Niland, SESI was launched with a grant from the Chancellor’s Civic Commitment Task Force. The Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership matched those funds to make SESI a reality. The class segment of the Institute covered topics like non-traditional advertising, project assessment, fundraising, managing endowment, donor relations and communications. Participants also went through the process of developing a mission-based business plan.

“The feedback was overwhelming positive,” Niland said. “The students saw how they could use their business skills to assist the not-for-profit community in beneficial ways. I think they will continue to be engaged; some of the students have continued to work with the same organizations.”

Read a testimonial letter from a 2007 Corporate SESI attendee

Read press release from the 2007 SESI meetings