A Newsletter for the Neighbors of the University of California, Berkeley |
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UC students offer consulting services
free to community nonprofits
One of five student co-founders of the newly formed Berkeley Group, Lew believes there are a lot of "passionate people" who have trouble accomplishing their objectives "because their organization doesn't know how to deal with business-related issues. We can help," he says. The group's 35 student members, selected on the basis of résumés and interviews, provide a wide variety of business services, including cost analysis, website development, and marketing and business plans. Faculty and private-sector mentors work with the students on each project. So far, the Berkeley Group has lined up projects with four nonprofit organizations - the national citizens' lobbying group Common Cause; CORPMAN, a nonprofit working on issues of corporate governance; Anywhere Books, a group that supports access to books, through the use of Internet technology, in underserved local and international communities; and the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation. The group is negotiating with the Berkeley YMCA and the Salvation Army on future projects. " The students have been very proactive in working with us," says Jerry Jai of Community Relations at the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation. "They are very eager." Most of the students in the Berkeley Group are business majors at Berkeley's Haas School; others are studying engineering, biology, and even music. The group is soliciting requests from nonprofits for future consulting projects.
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To contact the Berkeley Group, send an e-mail to theberkeleygroup@yahoo.com |
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