Climate Change Philanthropy: Giving Green, Giving Smart
Rae André, Professor Emeritus, D'Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University, produced and moderated the webinar "Climate Change Philanthropy: Giving Green, Giving Smart" on Tuesday, December 7th for Cary Memorial Library and the Lexington Climate Action Network in Lexington, MA.
Speakers included frontline climate leaders from prominent regional and national organizations: the Conservation Law Foundation, Earthjustice, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and the Sierra Club. They discussed their missions and current climate change initiatives, and how to build a career in the non-profit sector.
The session is available on the Cary Library YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/PfaeWgaT58w as a public resource suitable for classes on non-profit management, climate leadership, women in management, and change for climate change.
Student Live Consulting Projects with Industry Partners
Robert Sroufe is involved in live projects with student teams and corporate clients each semester and can always provide a few good project in the future. A quick thought on the projects, it might help to create some sort of standardized approach or table for submitters to populate so that the information submitted is more uniform and has less variance across submissions.
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Fall Project II Engagements
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The first engagement with practice involved a small startup company, InvolveMINT increases a community’s agency to tackle environmental and social challenges using community currency. Through a community exchange network, area communities can fund sustainability projects with digital currency of common purpose accepted and exchanged among community businesses, residents, and organizations. This MBA team helped with the development of a marketing plan and recommendations for partnership growth.
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A second project involved considering how best to help the Leechburg Area Community Development Corporation turn a three-story, 100-year old bank building on Main Street into a profitable co-working space through a market analysis of the co-working industry and recommendations for making this a self-sustaining entity as they help revitalize a coal mining town providing new opportunities for work spaces.
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A third project involved the V.P. of Environmental Health & Safety within a petroleum and solvents MNC along with their CFO worked with a team of MBAs to interview stakeholders, understand industry trends, benchmarks, and best practices in a materiality assessment for the enterprises first sustainability report. The team interviewed top management, performed content analysis, and helped develop meaningful information, and a materiality map for the client and forthcoming corporate report.
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Lucrezia Nava
University of Cambridge - Judge Business School
Barcelona
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