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Dear Net Impact Club Members, Thank you for your support in making the Duke Conference on Sustainable Business and Social Impact a spectacular success! Over 400 people attended the event. We would like to thank the planning team and all of you who volunteered to help make this such a fantastic conference. We really appreciate all your support! Please join us for this term’s town hall meeting on Wednesday, February 24th, from 5:30-6:30pm in Dansby Classroom. We will be discussing the events that we organized this past term, particularly the Duke Conference on Sustainable Business and Social Impact, and talking about the transition of the club’s leadership. As always, we are open to your thoughts and feedback on how we can strengthen the club’s activities and provide more valuable events to our club members. We will also be giving away some fun prizes to all who attend, so be sure to stop by! More details for each of upcoming events are in the newsletter below. |
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Reminders: |
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| Career Drop-in with Matt Nash | The Green Devil Challenge: Duke Needs Your Help! | |
| Reminder: CASE Summer Internship Fund | ||
Featured Announcements |
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| What Does Sustainability Mean to YOU? | ||||||
FEATURED THIS WEEK - 2 SBSI Panelists:
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| A Look Back on SBSI | ||||||
For those of you who were unable to attend the Duke SBSI Conference, click below on the video to get a glimpse of various moments that made this year's Conference memorable. |
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Announcements & Upcoming Events |
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| Town Hall Meeting on February 24th | ||||||
When: Wednesday, February 24th, from 5:30-6:30pm Please join us for the last town hall meeting of this term. We will be discussing the events that we organized this past term, particularly the Duke Conference on Sustainable Business and Social Impact, and talking about the transition of the club’s leadership. |
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| 1st Duke Asia Business Conference | ||||||
When: Wednesday, February 24th, 8:00am - 12:30pm This conference will offer a great platform for students, professionals, and professors to exchange ideas on the growing impact of Asia in the world and foster friendship. Great speakers from global corporations, local companies and graduate schools have been invited. Net Impact Club members may be especially interested in the session entitled, “Entrepreneurship for the Bottom Billions.” Join Diju Raha and Sorin Cohn to have a rich discussion and brainstorm how information and communications technologies (ICT) can change the lives of people who are living on the poverty line. Featured Speakers: Diju Raha—Chairman & CEO, EximSoft Intl.
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Career |
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| Reminder: CASE Summer Internship Fund | ||||||
Apply now for the CASE Summer Internship Fund (SIF)! Even if you don't have an internship lined up, please let Ruth Tolman know that you are looking for an internship with a nonprofit, public sector, or non-governmental organization (NGO). You can supply your offer information later. Check out the CASE website at http://www.caseatduke.org/mba/financialaid/index.html#intern for more details along with the application. |
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| Career Drop-in with Matt Nash | ||||||
When: Fridays, 12:30 - 1:30pm CASE Director, Matt Nash, will be holding open office hours for all students - first years and second years - that have questions about their job search, industry focus, or anything else related to their career. Please drop by! |
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| Last FY Job Search Team Meeting of This Term | ||||||
When: When: Tuesday, February 23rd, 5-6pm. The last FY Job Search Team meeting of the term will be held this week. Be sure to come by and strategize how to make the most of the next few weeks of your internship search. |
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| Be a Career Coach For Kids! | ||||||
Did you have, or wish you'd had, someone to help you find the right career for you? Learn how Futures for Kids (F4K) helps level the playing field for students and how you can become a Career Coach. |
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| Two Full-time Contract Positions Available at Environmental Foundation | ||||||
The Open Space Institute is conducting a candidate search on behalf of an affiliated philanthropic institution (“Employer”) who also works in the area of land conservation. The Employer consists of two operating foundations and three non-operating foundations largely focused on environmental issues, with total assets in excess of $100M and a $5M annual budget. The Employer seeks to fill two consulting positions described separately below – (1) Strategic Review Consultant and (2) Research Consultant. |
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| The Mind Trust Now Accepting Fellowship Applications | ||||||
The Mind Trust's Education Entrepreneur Fellowship is a nationally unique incubator for transformative education ventures designed to solve public education's most vexing problems. The Fellowship offers promising education entrepreneurs the opportunity to develop and launch their break-the-mold education ventures. |
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| Exciting Social Enterprise Opportunity in Kenya | ||||||
KOMAZA is a young Kenyan social enterprise. It works with the country’s poorest farmers to unlock the economic potential of their dry lands and equip them with the resources, knowledge and market linkages to produce high-value crops. KOMAZA will experience tremendous growth this year as they scale their operations and triple the number of their partner farmers. KOMAZA's work and impact on rural Kenya has been showcased in many conferences and foundation websites. Later this month, the founder, Tevis Howard, will be speaking at Harvard's Social Enterprise Conference. Please refer to the website and/or Facebook group for exact dates and location. |
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Case Competitions / Educational Opportunities |
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| Global Case Challenge 2010 | ||||||
When: March 2010 In March 2010, the One Laptop per Child Association will be gathering over 300 of the world’s best and brightest young MBA, graduate and undergraduate business minds to develop innovative and effective strategies for leveraging leading-edge technologies to educate and empower the world’s poorest children. In partnership with the Hult International Business School (formerly the Arthur D. Little School of Management) and TalentCastr, the One Laptop per Child Association will be hosting case competitions in Boston, London, Shanghai and Dubai in which teams of students from the world’s top universities and graduate programs develop and present innovative solutions to a business case that is of strategic relevance to the One Laptop per Child Association’s mission of empowering the children of developing countries to learn by providing one connected laptop to every school-age child. Prior to the event, TalentCastr will be utilizing its automated video interviewing and recruiting platform to identify the best and brightest business minds (top ~10% of applicants to be selected) from over 100 of the world’s top universities and graduate programs to participate in the Boston, London, Shanghai and Dubai events. An illustrative sample of universities and graduate/MBA programs to be represented at the event includes Oxford University, Cambridge University, Harvard University, Stanford University, Hult International Business School, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (Booth) and the Richard Ivey School of Business. For more information, contact Valerie Hausman at vhausman@duke.edu |
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| GH/Innovate 2010 - Global Health & Innovation Conference | ||||||
When: Saturday, April 17 - Sunday, April 18, 2010 |
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| 2010 SustaInvest Portfolio Pitch Competition @ Cornell University | ||||||
When: April 16th, 2010
Deadline: Monday, March 15, 2010, 11:45 pm EST |
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Reminders |
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| The Green Devil Challenge: Duke Needs Your Help! | ||||||
The Green Devil Challenge to help focus on specific actions you can take. Each month, a new challenge will be issued to encourage individuals to make small changes in their daily lives that will help reduce our emissions at Duke. Accept the challenge at: http://sustainability.duke.edu/action/challenge/
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Click here to access all other active announcements made in previous newsletters. |
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Please contact Ashanka Iddya if you have any questions regarding items on this newsletter. |
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SBSI Corporate & Club Sponsors |
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Other Corporate Sponsors |
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