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This month’s competitions, job openings, and other ways to get involved with Net Impact
Looking for something to do this month? Whether you’re itching to learn something new (or, hey, want to apply for a job), we’ve got you covered.
WRI Taps Net Impact Students to Market New Initiative
The Sustainability SWOT helps business translate complex issues into actionable strategies
“It is one thing to publish a report or put forward an idea,” says Eliot Metzger of the World Resources Institute (WRI). “It is quite another to translate that idea into a real and positive change in the world.” Eliot shares how WRI worked with companies to develop the Sustainability SWOT (sSWOT) to solve this problem, as well as the unique advantages of tapping Net Impact’s student members for this critical initiative...
Four Tricks to Building Support for Your Change Efforts
Impact at Work Award winners share tips for success
Change is hard. On a personal level, it’s emotionally challenging to break ourselves of habits we’re attached to, and on an institutional level, it can be exceedingly difficult as well. So we asked a group of folks who know all about implementing change in the workplace: our former Impact at Work Award winners. Here are their four tricks to gaining buy-in for your next impact project…
Last Chance: How Does Your Impact MBA Program Stack Up?
Rankings may be evolving, but we still need our own
The most recent crop of b-school students graduates this month, and many of them may have originally picked their MBA program based on how well it would equip them for the job market – and they probably leaned on one of the many rankings publications out there to help them. But if you’re gunning for a great impact job, where do you turn for advice?
Upcoming Impact Opportunities
What's on deck at Net Impact in the coming weeks?
Check out this month’s upcoming competitions, job openings, and other opportunities.
From the Impact Job Board
Nuru International offers an international social enterprise position
Are you in the thick of the job search? Or just want to see what impact jobs are out there? Check out this featured opportunity from the Impact Job Board, where you get unlimited access with free Net Impact membership...
Fatten Your Resume and Your Wallet – While Building Nonprofit Capacity
Win up to $2,000 for you and your org with Projects for Good’s Challenge Grant
Projects for Good connects students who have the will – and skills – to make an impact with organizations who need them. Still in its pilot phase, our new online matchmaking site has already registered hundreds of students interested in flexing their business muscles on nonprofit and social venture projects. We're now offering an exciting cash grant to participants who demonstrate the greatest impact.
$1 Million to Solve the Global Food Crisis? Yes, Please.
Net Impacters make their mark on the Hult Prize finalist teams
Take one of the world’s biggest challenges: the global food crisis. Add a $1 million prize to solve it. Throw in some of the brightest minds of our generation and what do you get? The largest case competition out there: the Hult Prize. With innovation this big, it should come as no surprise that four out of the five finalist teams have Net Impact connections...
The Strength of Community
By now, the news about yesterday's events in Boston have spread. Among many emotions, one thing stands out to us here at Net Impact. As we heard of the people of Boston opening their homes to stranded runners, and runners heading into danger to help the hurt, we were reminded of the power of each one of us to do good for each other – wherever we are, whatever the circumstances...
Upcoming Impact Opportunities
What's on deck at Net Impact in the coming weeks?
Check out this month’s upcoming competitions, job openings, and other opportunities.
Building a Pipeline for Water Reuse
Net Impact partner turns students into Water Matchmakers
Most of us probably know the global statistics well: 1.2 billion people without access to improved water supply and 2.4 billion people without access to sanitation. Kate Peabody, Net Impact member and communications strategist for the CH2M HILL Water Business Group shares how we can make the most of one of our most precious resources – water...
From the Impact Job Board
Move us closer to renewable energy as a Business/Policy Analyst with the Environment Law and Policy Center
Are you in the thick of the job search? Or just want to see what impact jobs are out there? Check out this featured opportunity from the Impact Job Board, where you get unlimited access with free Net Impact membership...
Investing in the Future of Campus Sustainability
Sustainable Endowment Institutes taps pilot Projects for Good platform to find dedicated student talent
More universities are investing funds in sustainability efforts that eventually pay for themselves. The Sustainable Endowments Institute (SEI) has launched an initiative to help boost these efforts, and the organization is looking for a talented Research Fellow on Net Impact's pilot Projects for Good platform. Emily Flynn, Manager of Special Projects, shares the details...
Upcoming Impact Opportunities
What's on deck at Net Impact in the coming weeks?
At any given moment, Net Impact is connected to a number of amazing opportunities that can get you involved with work that makes a difference. Our Impact Opportunities makes it easy for you to navigate this month’s upcoming competitions, job openings, and partnership deadlines. This month? An ideation challenge, experiential learning opportunity, and four rock solid impact job openings!
Want to Drive Big Impact? Start Small
Jessica Rudnick had big ideas when she joined a Net Impact chapter last fall, ready to make an impact on campus. But she quickly discovered it wasn’t going to be as easy as she’d hoped. The question loomed: how do you reach folks who haven’t integrated social and environmental values into their everyday habits?
Are You Ready for Job Search Season?
Net Impact’s MAP program helps you navigate your way to that ideal impact job or internship
Finding any job in the current economy can be tough, so it might seem impossible to find one that also fits your personal values. Even figuring out where to begin the search can be daunting; the route to an impact job is far less defined than the search for conventional roles. But what if you had a road map? Better still: what if you had a group of peers along for the journey, providing the support and camaraderie to keep you focused on your mission?
A Business Consulting Internship in the Great Outdoors?
By now, many students are knee-deep in internship applications, scrambling to decide how best to spend their summers. But who wants to send out cover letter after cover letter just to end up in a poorly ventilated office tapping away at your keyboard all summer? Check out how the National Park Service Business Plan Internship can offer you a summer not soon forgotten...
Explore the Water-Energy Nexus...in Abu Dhabi
Blogging competition for Triple Pundit closes January 3rd
When we were contacted by our friends at Triple Pundit for help promoting an incredible competition they're running that will send one lucky individual to Abu Dhabi for Sustainability Week, we figured we'd let them tell us about it in their own words...
Small Steps, Big Wins: Turning Millennial Optimism into Positive Impact
It’s easy to be cynical and take the path of least resistance, assuming change is impossible. But my generation is anything but cynical – we’re optimistic about our potential and eager to make a difference. Small Steps, Big Wins is designed to leverage this optimism by partnering with forward-thinking organizations to give students discrete, approachable opportunities to make a big impact...
Pitching a Sustainable Business Plan in 90 Seconds?
Announcing the Winner of the Walmart Quick Pitch Challenge
Think quick: You’ve got 90 seconds to convince a panel of sustainability experts that your business idea to build houses in Haiti is worth twenty grand. Welcome to the annual Walmart Quick Pitch Challenge...
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