{"id":67180,"date":"2006-06-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/mba-students-help-non-profit-agencies\/"},"modified":"2006-06-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-22T00:00:00","slug":"mba-students-help-non-profit-agencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2006\/06\/mba-students-help-non-profit-agencies\/","title":{"rendered":"MBA students help non-profit agencies"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 June 22, 2006 \u2013 溏心vlog免费B站 graduate students in business administration helped develop a comprehensive corporate training program this spring for the Providence Maritime Heritage Foundation\u2019s Sloop Providence.<\/p>\n


\n Cookie Place, a bakery and caf\u00e9 in Providence that offers employment and training for individuals with psychological and developmental disabilities, awarded MBA student Minal Vora of Warwick an internship to implement another graduate student team\u2019s business plan. The 溏心vlog免费B站 team developed a plan that calls for sales of \u201cBreakfast Bags,\u201d a concept for breakfast on the go that includes a beverage and a baked good.<\/p>\n


\nFor the second straight year, 溏心vlog免费B站 Business Professor Deborah Rosen has linked her students to non-profit agencies in Rhode Island through Social Venture Partners, a collaborative of professionals focused on advancing the non-profit sector and social change. The students recently made final presentations to Social Venture Partners and their respective agencies during a meeting in Providence. Several are taking action on the 溏心vlog免费B站 graduate students\u2019 recommendations.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThe non-profit organizations were very appreciative,\u201d said Deborah Schimberg, executive director of Social Venture Partners. \u201cThe students do a great deal of real work that the agencies can\u2019t do or don\u2019t have the expertise to do. The 溏心vlog免费B站 students bring skills, excitement and passion to the agencies. What 溏心vlog免费B站 is doing is unique in the state and in the country. The collaboration with 溏心vlog免费B站 has been very successful and I\u2019d like to see it expanded.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\u201cAll of the students did a great job coming up with business ideas to generate income that would advance the agencies\u2019 social mission,\u201d Rosen said. \u201cSeveral students saw this a real chance to give back.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nOther candidates in the full-time 溏心vlog免费B站 master of business administration program provided business analysis and planning for:<\/p>\n


\n\u2022 The Eight Women project at the Southside Community Land Trust in Providence;

\n\u2022 The RiverzEdge Arts Project in Woonsocket and;

\n\u2022 The Woonsocket Neighborhood Development Corp. <\/p>\n


\n\tThe group that worked with the Providence Maritime Heritage Foundation\u2019s Sloop Providence developed a corporate training program that would use the sloop, a replica of the original vessel that fought in the American Revolution.<\/p>\n


\n\tAccording to the student team, which consists of Meganne Atkins of Newport, Jon Egan of West Kingston, Diane St. Laurent of North Kingstown and Patrick Thomsen of Narragansett and Germany, corporate training, which includes team building through obstacle course participation, is a $62.5 billion industry with a growth rate of 10 percent.<\/p>\n


\n\tUnlike other programs based on physical challenges, the Providence offers training while the vessel is under way. In other words, the central part of the training and team building would be sailing the sloop.

\n\tThe students proposed a full-day training program that would include a traditional classroom experience in the morning, and a shipboard experience in the afternoon.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI was extremely pleased with the work and the caliber of the students,\u201d said Rob Hofmann, executive director of the Providence Maritime Heritage Foundation. \u201cThis group had a beneficial mixture of age ranges, with young people possessing optimism and excitement and other more mature students bringing business and life experience to the project. Basically, I provided them with financials, some history of the organization and they ran with it.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI was very impressed with the final business plan,\u201d Hofmann said. \u201cI have already informed Professor Rosen of our interest in participating next year.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tRay DePasquale, executive director of Cookie Place, which operates a wholesale and retail bakery and caf\u00e9, was seeking to replace its state funding by doing business with private clients.<\/p>\n


\n \u201cAll of the students were very hard working, and we brought Mina in as an intern to implement the plan. She is energetic and enthusiastic,\u201d DePasquale said.<\/p>\n


\nOther students in that team are: Yuyan Brady of Westerly, Matthew DeAngelis of Wakefield, Keith Elflein of Westerly, and Ronald Metcho Jr. of Newport.<\/p>\n


\n\tMBA students Brett Bell of Cranston, Steffen Blas\u00e9 of Narragansett, Alisha Krupski of Barrington, Kathleen O\u2019Donnell of Middletown and Yonin Senouvo of Kingston proposed a membership initiative to boost revenues for RiverzEdge, an after-school and summer apprenticeship program led by successful artists. Student participants produce and exhibit works in a range of media and styles and they sell products and obtain commissions from commercial clients.<\/p>\n


\n\tAnother team, made up of Thomas Gardner Jr. of Warwick, Amanda Hanaway-Corrente of Warwick, Anne-Sophie Meyer of Paris, France and Robert Wodok of Narragansett, worked with the Woonsocket Neighborhood Development Corp. The agency provides affordable housing and community development programs, such as homebuyers\u2019 education programs.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe students who assisted Southside Community Land Trust, Eight Women project to sell organic fertilizer are: Marcus Bennett of Saunderstown, Suzanne Bade of Kingston, Hendrick Meyer of Germany and Jennifer Fitzgerald of Pawtucket.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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